The Pedal Gee Bee

Time Spent: 2 hours (est.)
Total Time: 16.25

Chamfering the wing spots posed a bit of a problem. I spent a night trying to figure out how I was going to do it before I set out. I ended up using a combination of my band saw and table saw. The difficulty in the approach is the fact that both the tablesaw and the band saw can cut bevels in oly one direction. The wood can be fed only one way, and the blade/table can be tilted only one way. Therefore one fuselage side was beveled on the table saw the other on the band saw. The two wing reinforcement assemblies were cut using the same tool combo, but in the opposite order. Looking back on it, I should have hunted for a dovetail bit of the correct degree, but hindsight is 20/20.

I dadoed the various fuselage dados with the router and my flip top router jig. The instructions suggest using the table saw. Frankly, I think that would be much more difficult. First, you need to have a dado blade for your table saw. And I, like most amateur woodworkers didn’t have one. They’re expensive and specialized. Unless you do a lot of dadoing, they really aren’t practical. On top of that, the seat back dadoes are not square to any edge. This means that you’ll need to dado with some sore of miter gauge. I just don’t see how you could get this correct on opposing sides of the fuselage.

The router, however, IS DESIGNED to dado and you can do it with any number of bits. This is the way I went. Using a ¼ straight bit and my straight edge jig all I needed to do is clamp the jig to the dado shoulder, flip the top and route away.