There has to be a way to line up a board at a agnle and run it across your table saw blade to create homemade cove molding. Any ideas? Also, what do youu think of 30% boiled linseed oil, 30% varnish,and 30% turpentine for a rub on finish?
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What happened to the other 10% of your finish?
Well I like using wiping varnishes rather than mixes. I use Daly's Pro-fin, gloss. It gives me a nice build in only 3 coats. Your mix will work but I think it will take more coats to get the same kind of build.
As for coves, you can absolutely cut them on the table saw. You'll have to figure out the width of your cove and its depth first. Set your saw blade to full cove depth, then use some parallel arms set to the width of your cove. Angle those against your saw blade until the tooth emerging from the table just touches one arm and the tooth going into the table touches the other. This is the fence angle you'll need. Clamp a board in place onto the table saw table at the proper distance from the blade and with many small passes you can create coves on the table saw. Fine Woodworking has done several articles on this technique.
Just take your time with this technique as it's hard on a saw blade. You'll have a lot of clean up to do getting rid of those saw marks but hey you can do some cool looking curves on the saw with a little experimentation. Have fun. Gary
Thank you, I'll look up the articles.
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