Curly
PRO Member
Hi. I'm a new member and I'm still exploring both the site and the software. Please forgive me if my questions are answered elsewhere on the site. I'm doing my best to spend some time each day reading old posts and watching a few tutorials. I made a vase and used LaminationPro to design a very simple feature ring. I used the 'Southwest' button and a symmetrical lamination using maple on the sides and padauk in the middle. When I make Thunderbirds', I normally add strips of black veneer to the triangles to make a thin contrasting strip on the 'feather tips'. So ... I added a strip of black veneer to each side of the padauk in the lamination. The thinnest option for a lamination piece is 1/16 so that is what I selected for the veneer. I'm using a Freud crosscut blade that's stamped thin kerf with no measurement. I picked 3/32. After cutting the 1st Generation to form my southwest design I could see the small triangles for the top and bottom where much smaller than what LaminationPro depicts. Initially I thought maybe the culprit was choosing the 1/16 size for a veneer that's really only 1/42 thick but it still didn't add up. From there I measured the teeth on my saw blade with a micrometer. None of the teeth are as thin as 3/32. Cutting a short dado in a piece of MDF allows a 7/64 drill bit to fall in snugly. I can mentally make up for the veneer in a southwest design or leave it out, but wouldn't a discrepancy in blade width make a major difference in a 2nd or 3rd generation lamination? I was thinking I could buy a true 3/32 blade but what happens after I have it sharpened? Does it matter? Lastly, I noticed that after I save a .lam file and re-open it, some of the info doesn't save. The strip width, center strip, repeat units and # of strips as an example. Is this info I should enter in the 'notes' area? Is there anything I'm missing I would want to 'note'? Any help or thoughts on the veneer and the kerf size are greatly appreciated. Curly