Copeandstick

Rob and John just finished getting all t We did have to bring it down a little bit smaller than we had anticipated. Were shooting for two and seven sixteenths. I think they ended up It's not going to be perceptible to anybody. So We're now going to cut the copen stick joinery on these parts. So we need to set up our shaper heads and that's the first step. T So we had some custom knives made by Neil at MT Toolco. He's down in Maryland and t He makes custom knives for molding heads, for shapers, for molders, for William and Hussie molding mac The one that we bought from John we've made quite a few sets of cutters with Neil. So we sent We have your sticking blade. So t You can see that will become the tenon of the door. So we need to set these up and we got two heads so that we could leave them set up and be able to switch them back and forth without having any setup issues. So we want to make sure that these are perfectly flush to the bottom of t So we're going to use an epoxy coated neodymi These are just in here loose. We'll set them up now so I'm going to loosen my allen keys. I'll use the magnet to get everyt When setting up corrugated knives in a molding head, easy way to get everything all aligned is with a epoxy coated neodymi You want everyt So we'll put our magnet here. We'll align and just tighten it down. So now it's time to put our first head on the shaper. We're going to do the sticking first, kind of We're going to do the stick first. So with our shaper, we have a little allen bolt there and our spacers. Pull those off, slide the head on. And now we just want to put enough spacers. You always want the top of t Otherwise your spinner will, your cutter will spin. It's going to spin So we tighten t Now we're on to uncharted territory. We're going to try a technique that we haven't done before on the shaper. So we're going to be using what's called an outboard fence or a back fence I've heard it called. So rather than using t So what we need to do is get t So t We want it to pass that way we get a nice straight clean edge. The climb cut will give a much cleaner cut than feeding t You have to make sure that they're perfectly co-planar otherwise at the end of your cut So we're going to try it out. We know some guys who do it. We got a little bit of advice but we tend to just dive in. So we're going to figure it out with some test pieces and bring it along for the ride. Our outboard fence is all clamped. We have say we have our one sixteenth of slop here so that we have some adjustment. The next step would be to set up the power feeder so we need to swing that over get everyt So with the power feeder nice t We're going to feed the opposite direction now so we don't have to turn t So we have four wheels. We want the space between wheels two and three to be the center of the cutterhead. Probably won't bore you with all the adjustment on t We want it slightly towards t We just ran the piece through we're happy with our test piece we ended up moving the outboard fence in that sixteenth of an inch. Now that we're happy with t We have that sticking cut complete on all of our parts was a little sketchy We've gone ahead and set up our coping sled so now we need to make the opposite cut on the end so that they can fit into the styles Here we are at the shaper t