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I recently bought an Incra jig to use for obtaining identical thickness veneers off the bandsaw. I want to register a known flat face of the lumber against the fence, and move the fence a known incremental amount after each cut.

My idea was to mount this jig on a piece of plywood that could be mounted to the right of the blade. After setting the fence for drift, I would make the first cut to establish a reference plane on the lumber being resawn. Then i could move the fence a set dimension (in 1/32" increments) toward the blade. This dimension is the veneer thickness plus the width of the kerf.

Using this method, every slice should be the same thickness, and I would not be referencing a different cut face against the fence each time.

I have done very little resawing, so I am interested in hearing from those of you who have experience with this. I intend to cut book-matched panels for doors and drawer faces.

Can you post a photo of what you've got? Sounds interesting. Also - do you own a planer? IMHO you might as well not stress to much about it if you are going to plane them too. Just run all your pieces through at the same planer increments and it should come out in the wash.

cincinnati10 wrote:I have done very little resawing, so I am interested in hearing from those of you who have experience with this. I intend to cut book-matched panels for doors and drawer faces.

cincinnati10,
I do a fair amount of resawing with my SS bandsaw and have posted several modifications that I have made to the saw with good results. For what it's worth do a search on the bandsaw and you should find several posts and pics.
ldh

After reading about the Kreg resaw guide (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007VYL4S) and having issues with the adjustable fence, and not wanting to buy more "bandsaw improvements" I came up with this guide. It was made from cutoffs - cost about $1.00.
Realizing these photos have been posted several times, here they are again! Newer forum members probably haven't seen them.

With this simple jig I can resaw very thin strips without and fence fiddling.
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hudsonmiller wrote:Can you post a photo of what you've got? Sounds interesting. Also - do you own a planer? IMHO you might as well not stress to much about it if you are going to plane them too. Just run all your pieces through at the same planer increments and it should come out in the wash.

Here IT IS:

http://incra.com/product_rtf_originaljig.htm

I have a planer, but I want to add a drum sander like the Jet 16/32.

Thanks, I wasn't sure which Incra product you were talking about.

I think your plan to use plywood to mount this to should work fine. I'm wondering how the indexing would work though. Perhaps the thing to do would be to zero the fence by moving it toward a moving blade until it just starts to rub and cut. That would be zero, then move it away revealing the width of the cut.

Make sense??

http://incra.com/images/rtf_originalj_detail5_zoom.jpg

Here's a picture of the jig mounted on a bandsaw. Picture the featherboard as the stock to be sliced into veneers. In the position the stock is in the photo, this would be the first cut. I would then move the fence closer to the blade by the distance of the saw kerf plus the desired veneer thickness,

Zero the jig by moving the fence and the stock close enough to the blade that i could just make a cut through the length of my lumber to be resawn. Then I would move the jig in 1/32" increments until I got the thickness I was interested in.

I have a 1/16" kerf blade on my SS bandsaw. So I would increment it 5 "clicks" to yield a 3/32" veneer. Make the slice. Then increment it 5 "clicks" etc and repeat until I got the number of veneers I needed from that stock. Using this method, the smooth jointed face of the stock would always be referenced against the fence and not a freshly cut bandsawn face.

Looking forward to seeing the veneer!

Hud