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   SCFrankland | May 04, 2004 09:31pm | #1

   Depends on which way your blades tilts. The idea is to be able to tilt the blade so that the reground surface is parallel with the surface of the table.

   Scott C. Frankland

   Scott's WOODWORKING Website

   "He who has the most tools may not win the race of life but he will sure make his wife look like a good catch when she goes to move on."

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   fdny | May 05, 2004 03:50am | #3

   It is a left tilt unisaw .

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   bakesale1 | May 05, 2004 10:01pm | #7

   Scott:

   Do you use this method?  My question is if I get my blade ground, does it work when cuting the pins?  The blade only is tilted when cutting the tails.  The pins are cut with the mitre gauge set at a complimentary angle.

   Another question I have is how many teeth to loook for on the blade.  Since we'll only cut through small ammounts of material, wouldn't a blade with more teeth leave a cleaner cut?  But most blades that start out flat top ground ar rip blades with 36 tpi max.  ANy thoughts

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   SCFrankland | May 06, 2004 12:05am | #8

   If you use a backer board it will make for a nice cut no matter what kind of blade you us but in this case you are ripping and not cross cutting so I would tend to lean towards a 24 tooth blade. I have yet to try this but have a blade marked for this purpose. This method will only cut tails you need the blade 90 deg to the table use a miter gauge set to the same deg as the bevel on the blade.

   I will use 14 degs just as example, for the tails you will set the blade to 14 deg tilt and miter gauge set to 90 deg. To cut the pins you blade will be 90 deg to the table and the miter gauge will be 14 degs. To cut the tails use the re-ground blade to cut the pins use a rip blade for a flat bottom or a cross cut blade but you will have to clean up the saw cut.Scott C. Frankland

   Scott's WOODWORKING Website"He who has the most tools may not win the race of life but he will sure make his wife look like a good catch when she goes to move on."

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   bakesale1 | May 06, 2004 12:44am | #9

   Scott: 

   I've been using my Forrest WWII blade for both sides.  It has ATB teeth with the rake on these teeth of 15 degrees.  Wouldn't I still have less chopping if I cut my pins at 81 degrees (6:1 ratio) with a blade ground to 9.5 degrees for the tails.  (I'm a hobbyist and paying for a blade that I can only use on the tails and would have to swap out for the pins doesn't make much sense.  I may as well just chop out the excess left by my WWII.)

   Thanks.

   Eric

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   SCFrankland | May 06, 2004 12:58am | #10

   You could always not use a purpose ground blade and just use a regular blade and just pare out the bottom of the cut with a chisel. This maybe the better solution as it may not be a blade you use to much. If you did get a blade re-ground then cutting all the tails and then doing all the pins with a different wouldn't be that much trouble.

   Scott C. Frankland

   Scott's WOODWORKING Website"He who has the most tools may not win the race of life but he will sure make his wife look like a good catch when she goes to move on."

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   MyTacoma | May 04, 2004 09:44pm | #2

   Calculate the degrees for 1:6 or 1:8 ratio. I use 1:6 for most of my hand-cut dovetails. You're not planning to use the tablesaw for half-blind dovetails are you?

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   fdny | May 05, 2004 03:51am | #4

   No for through dovetails, there are alot int his project so I am trying to speed up the process. so a 1:6

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   SCFrankland | May 05, 2004 03:58am | #5

   With a left tilt you will want to grind the right side of the blade off so that it leaves the bevel level with the the top of the table.Scott C. Frankland

   Scott's WOODWORKING Website"He who has the most tools may not win the race of life but he will sure make his wife look like a good catch when she goes to move on."

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   mitch | May 05, 2004 03:17pm | #6

   forrest blades of clifton, nj does it- they can probably just tell you what you need.

   (and you'll get an awesome sharp blade back, too)

   m