V Groove 2x6 on a Shaper

[Don P]

A friend is building his house and has been milling much of the material. He had sawn and KD'd a bunch of 2x6 for the upstairs subfloor but wanted an exposed V groove ceiling below. We couldn't find any stock cutters or knives so ordered a corrugated head and a few sets of blank steel. I had done this kind of work... 35 years ago with something better than a bench grinder and cutoff wheel jury rigged on it. But it worked. We also got a power feeder for the shaper. At some point someone had a baby feeder on it so I made an adapter plate so we wouldn't have to drill more holes in the shaper top.





They ran 1400lf today 8)

 

[JRWoodchuck]

That is fantastic! What steel did you use for the cutters? Just HSS? Where does someone pick up a corrugated head? Just recently got a shaper and would like create some of my own cutters.

[Ljohnsaw]

 :P
I was trying to find at least a 1" T&G set but the best I could find was about .8"

[Don P]

We were pretty jazzed it worked so well.
I was surprised there wasn't a stock knife or cutterhead set but couldn't find one.
The shaper head I used is here;
http://www.grizzly.com/products/2-Moulding-Head-with-3-4-Bore/D1700
These are the HSS knife blanks;
http://www.grizzly.com/products/2-Backout-Relief-Knife/G3821

You can buy knife stock, and heads elsewhere. I know of 2 different corrugated patterns so do make sure they match if you shop around.

[tacks Y]

Nice job on the cutters. So you made them with a cut off wheel? Just laid them out and cut away? I see some one had a grinder for these but wanted 500 for it so still thinking. If I had more room it might make it home.

[Larry]

Color the knife steel with layout fluid.  Make a template from thin plastic.  Lay the template on the steel and trace around it with a scribe.  Use a chainsaw sharpening wheel (other specialized wheels available) to cut it out.  You only get a one knife finish cut which is fine in most cases.

I've been using one of those aluminum shaper heads before Grizzly cloned them.  I usually use a custom knife grinding company.  Fax them a picture of what I want and I have the cutter in a few days.

All manner of heads are available.  Charles Schmidt Co. among many others has tooling and knife steel.