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Title: How to make laminated tapers
Post by: Mohammad Javad Shoaee on November 02, 2009, 05:55:31 am
Hello

Does anyone know how to make a a lamination taper with thickness sander?

Thank You
Title: Re: How to make laminated tapers
Post by: El Destructo on November 02, 2009, 07:03:01 am
PM a dude named Islandpiper on this Board....He can probably help you out
Title: Re: How to make laminated tapers
Post by: Ryano on November 08, 2009, 10:11:36 am
make a tapered block for lamination to sit on and then run it through......
Title: Re: How to make laminated tapers
Post by: adb on November 08, 2009, 11:04:55 am
I think it would be very difficult with a thickness sander, but it's easy with a jointer.
Title: Re: How to make laminated tapers
Post by: stiknstring on November 13, 2009, 08:25:41 pm
Quite the opposite....when you start dealing with laminations in the .060 range tear out from jointers and planers is a big problem....with a thickness or drum sander like the performax it is a breeze.
Title: Re: How to make laminated tapers
Post by: adb on November 13, 2009, 09:54:28 pm
OK, can you show us?
Title: Re: How to make laminated tapers
Post by: Justin Snyder on November 13, 2009, 10:09:04 pm
Quite the opposite....when you start dealing with laminations in the .060 range tear out from jointers and planers is a big problem....with a thickness or drum sander like the performax it is a breeze.
Yes, I would love to trade my planer for a thickness sander when doing laminations.
Title: Re: How to make laminated tapers
Post by: radius on November 14, 2009, 07:50:53 am
Quite the opposite....when you start dealing with laminations in the .060 range tear out from jointers and planers is a big problem....with a thickness or drum sander like the performax it is a breeze.
Yes, I would love to trade my planer for a thickness sander when doing laminations.

why not have one of each?
Title: Re: How to make laminated tapers
Post by: Justin Snyder on November 14, 2009, 10:35:51 am
$
Title: Re: How to make laminated tapers
Post by: stiknstring on November 14, 2009, 09:52:01 pm
Truth money is an issue....head on over to the pirates of archery site and I am pretty sure you can see lots of lam grinders in various posts.  Can I show you???....no, I cannot afford one of those.  Can I listen to bowbuilders talk about grinding THIN (like 45 hundredths of an inch) laminations YOU BETCHA.  There is a good reason that I order from the guys who do it.

Weekend before last as I was grinding down some big ole bamboo for a BBI on my friends 80 inch belt sander he ground a eight or nine skinny ( ranging from .064 to .110) tapers and parallels on his performax for a couple kids bow projects I have in mind.  No tear out and baby but smooth and ready to glue.  That is testimony enough for me. They are pricy...I just found a used older model for 850....