Renewing a Zero-Clearance Insert ~ Half-Inch Shy

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Renewing a Zero-Clearance Insert

With the New Years weekend, I spent some time in the shop. Wahoo! I have an ugly spot in the laundry room that needs a maple cabinet so that's today's fun along with some handrails.
The cabinet is made of maple ply and hardwood. For the ply, I really need the zero-clearance insert to keep the cuts clean. My insert has some chatter marks around the blade opening from who-knows-what and those make for fuzzy cuts.

To remedy this, I taped over the existing cut...

...flipped the insert, loaded the cut with Bondo, and let it cure. The next day, ran a new kerf through.

While you can't see a lot of Bondo from the top, the cuts are noticeably cleaner.

1 comments:

Dyami Plotke said...

Well done, Paul-Marcel. I've head the same trick works with epoxy too.

Also, thanks for enabling noble on the blog. It looks great on my Droid.

January 2, 2011 at 6:02 AM

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Angle Madness! a diamond-shaped entertainment center.
Tim Burton Table a five-legged demilune that would fit naturally in a Tim Burton film.
Sculpted Mahogany Vanity a wall-mounted vanity with a granite top.
The After-Earthquake Detector a fun project with the Bridge City JMPv2; this is John Economaki's project we built as a WIA'11 demo.
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Quilted Maple Picture Frame was a project for my best friend for a massive painting he got on his honeymoon.
Floating-Top Figured Eucalyptus end table was a quick one-day build; the finish took longer, naturally :)
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Jewelry box inserts was mostly a project to show using the Bridge City JMPv2 and HP-6v2 plane; add gilding and it's more fun.

Half-Inch Shy

Sunday, January 2, 2011