HOW TO rip an angle into a dowel

[david babcock]

Greetings fellow creekers!

I need to rip a long strip out of a 54" dowel. The cut will be 3/4" deep into a 1 3/4 handrail (mostly round). Plans recommend a 3/4 cut on the table saw, rotate the rod 96 degrees then rip 1/4" more.
UG! Safety and Accuracy???

I assume that I wont find a 96 degree cone shaped router bit.
Any thoughts on the safest easiest and most accurate way?

[Jim Becker]

Build a jig to securely hold the workpiece in the orientation you need so you can push it along the saw's fence to make the cut. (TS or BS)

[Anthony Whitesell]

Cut a "groove" center in a piece of scrap as long as the dowel and set the dowel in the stock. Tip the blade to 48 degrees and make a cut into the dowel. Then turn the dowel around and run it again. The difficult part will be setting the fence such that the blade runs down the dowel at the correct depth. But the 96 degree cut will be right on.

[glenn bradley]

Safety and accuracy is right. That just doesn't sound like the best way to accompish that cut, GRR-Rippers or not. Maybe something like this could help?

[david babcock]

A brief pause for the rookie to shower praise and thanksgiving.
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thanks guys for the speedy responses.
ps, anthony, I feel lucky that my grocery store brand table saw tilts to 45 deg. Does your TS blade really limbo that far?
GLENN, brilliant- thats exactly what Im looking for. Thanks for the pic too, im slow.

[david babcock]

this is the side view sketch of the angle Im looking for. Just to confirm
How about getting the angle right on the cut?
oops, looks like its 94 degrees afterall.

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/attachme...5&d=1201496576

[Jim Becker]

A simple groove in some other stock is not sufficient to hold the dowel...you also need to be able to secure the ends so the piece does not rotate. You want the whole assemble to pass the blade riding on the fence. This is both a practical "get it done" issue as well as a safety issue. And with the cut you need, it will have to be the table saw since you need to cut out a quarter, more or less, of the dowel's profile.

[Doug Shepard]

If you've got an extra couple inches that could be inserted though plywood plates with a 1-3/4" hole and screwed, you could screw those plates between 2 longer plywood rails and use a handheld CS and guide rail or even router and edge guide. Then remove the screws, rotate and re-screw for the second cut. I think the TS would scare me a bit for that kind of cut.