Installing the lips

[stripermaineiac]

Clamp a board to the deck on your ban saw. Take the plug and get the place where you want the cut to be by adjusting the board.Mark the depth of the cut on the plug then slowly make the cut making sure you have your hook holes on the right side. Check your cut with a lip after trimming the end peices off.Repeat your cuts using the board as a fence to guide the plugs . You should end up with a prety consitant cut on all of the.Just make sure the end peices are the same size otherwise you'll have to redo the fence each time.If you've already cut the ends off from turning just use the fence the same way making sure to keep the plug as straight as you can . They should come out good.

[Hookset]

Originally Posted by stripermaineiac

Clamp a board to the deck on your ban saw. Take the plug and get the place where you want the cut to be by adjusting the board.Mark the depth of the cut on the plug then slowly make the cut making sure you have your hook holes on the right side. Check your cut with a lip after trimming the end peices off.Repeat your cuts using the board as a fence to guide the plugs . You should end up with a prety consitant cut on all of the.Just make sure the end peices are the same size otherwise you'll have to redo the fence each time.If you've already cut the ends off from turning just use the fence the same way making sure to keep the plug as straight as you can . They should come out good.

Good information. I have a cheap band saw a friend gave me because the blades kept breaking and he wanted to get the better one. So, I have only been using it for cutting off the ends. Then I put the plug in a vice and use a hack saw to cut the lip slot. I may try to do use the bandsaw with a fence as you describe.

I typically round or cut off my ends because I like to have the flat end of the tight grains on the bottom and that never lines up with the square ends. Not sure if that makes a difference, but that is how I have been doing it.

[ruhroh]

Leave blocks on ends. Measure were you want to cut your lips and how deep. Install fence and stop on deck of bandsaw. Run plug along fence until it hits the stop. Now you have identical cuts.

[ruhroh]

If you want to cut the ends off build a v-block sled and again run that along the fence with your plug in it.

[Rockfish9]

I have a nice adjustable jig i use to cut lips on my table top band saw... I'll have it on display at plugfest..I've posted it here before, it was an earlier version... the new model is much more versatile.. it uses a "V" block and tail stock set up and can be adjusted for any plug length or diameter..