GUIDES
Guiding your stock
Your achine co es with the GS-2 guide syste , which includes a flex guide and a solid guide to guide, your
stock. To set these guides, first attach your knives to the knife arbor in the position you have chosen, often a
place where you can get the ost out of your roller surfaces. Panel knives would go to the far right. S aller
knives to the post side half of the ounting area and larger knives to the central positions.
Roll one knife down pointing to the achine bed and place a sa ple piece of stock you are going to old on
the bed. Align the stock to the knife profile and carefully lower the achine head until the roller puts pressure
on your stock to hold it securely.
Attach your flex guide to the side of the profile that will cut the least deep into your stock. This will give the
longest possible life to your flex guide. The beveled portion of the guide should be facing the stock. Put about a
1/32” a ount of pressure on the flex part of the guide. This will keep you stock fro wandering within the
glide path. Pull the handles up and away fro the stock path.
Attach your solid guide on the other side of the stock. Push it up fir ly against the stock and tighten the
handles angling the away fro the stock path.
Remove your set up piece of stock by raising the achine head, and pulling the stock out fro the bed.
Your knives will usually cut into one or both guides. This is nor al and expected. The guides are effective
and last a long ti e after being cut into any ti es.
As you beco e ore fa iliar with the achine and its use, you will want to ake
wooden guides to suit specific jobs. Always ake a co plete sa ple (top and
botto ) of crowns and keep sa ple to set up on.
Make your botto cut first when illing bed and crown moldings. You ay want
to add a key cut as a guiding echanis for your top profile.
When planing the edge of stock, a high, square, relieved guide is needed in order
to have the edge reasonably square and to provide
stability. The center reliefs are to reduce friction.
So e profiles are too deep to ake on the W&H. In so e
cases you can rotate the profile into a flatter position to
effectively reduce the depth of cut. A “V block” guide
would be ade to guide your stock. The profile knives
would have to be custo ade to use in this V block
position.
When aking tongue and groove stock, a serious and
detailed approach is needed in order to achieve a unifor fit. Carefully pre-inspect
your stock for cupping and warping. You need to plane all your stock to one unifor
size.
The guide thickness should be 3/8” thinner than your stock or your roller will scuff on the guides when the
stock has left the achine and the rollers are in their rest positions. When running thin stock you will need to
fasten a sub-plate between the guides to aintain a thick enough guide to control your stock.
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