I’ve been tasked with making a couple transfer boards for my partners rehab location. Does anybody have suggestions on how to get a bevel cut like this?
I’d suggest a jig on the miter saw, to hold the stock on edge at a given angle.
But cutting a piece 8" wide might be tough, so you may have to cut 2-3 pieces, then glue them edge to edge like the cutting boards are done, then sand and cut the hand holes.
Honestly if I were to go about it, I’d use a belt sander. Maybe building a jig to keep a consistent angle
If the bevel is short enough, it would be easy to cut with the board on end using a tall auxiliary fence on the table saw. A power hand plane would also be easy to get set and would make pretty quick work of it. I’m guessing the cnc machine would do it, too.
I cut something similar to that a year or two ago as I was building a threshold to use for a door in my garage. I built a jig and cut it on the bandsaw. I think I still have the jig. I’ll look for it tomorrow.
Tom Herdt
We used long tapers like this for making longer wood. Look up scarf joints to get an idea how to easily make them using a hand plane.
Brian,
Here are some photos of the jig I mentioned yesterday. It essentially works like a typical taper jig for a table saw, but I wanted to cut a 3/16" taper over a 32" run on a half-inch thick piece of oak that was 4" wide. Because of the width of the board the table saw wasn’t an option and because I was cutting the taper through the thin section of the board, there was no practical way I could think of to clamp it to the jig. So I made a “fence” that was tapered with my desired taper, relative to the miter slot. I wasn’t intending to use the jig again, so I just glued the work piece to the fence. The off-cut portion of the workpiece is still present in the photos. You could use a more temporary means, such as using blue painter’s tape and CA glue (things to do using blue painters tape - Google Search), to attach the work piece to the fence, if you wanted to use the jig multiple times. . The CNC router would certainly be a more elegant and versatile way of achieving the same result, but this worked for me.
Tom Herdt
Forgot to make clear that I was cutting this on the bandsaw.