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Some of you might know that each month Wood Mag offers various prizes for the tip they deem as the top tip of the month. This month a guy won a Grizzly (china made yuck! well they all can't be good prizes ) Bandsaw for his bevel sled.

I thought it was interesting that we were just talking about cutting bevels on the tilting table saws and etc. And here is the "TOP" tip for all those tilting arbor guys a jig to enable them to keep their blade stationary and cut bevels.

They cite the times savings and accuracy as the reasons for this sled. One thing they did mention that I hadn't thought of is once you cut the bevel you can flip the board over lower the blade slightly and cut a groove for a spline in the bevel.

See issue 184 July 2008 pg 14
Ed

Ed in Tampa wrote: One thing they did mention that I hadn't thought of is once you cut the bevel you can flip the board over lower the blade slightly and cut a groove for a spline in the bevel.

I never thought it could be that easy, but it sounds like it is.

Howdy,

I chuckled when I saw the Tip of the Month and the prize awarded. Wonder what you could win if you submitted the whole Shopsmith. You could save the wood used on the jigs, plus sell the prize on eBay and buy more SS stuff with the proceeds .

~mike