I built a small vacuum table and mounted a router onto it with linear rails and trucks and a 90 deg V-cutting router bit. I had the V cutter mounted so that the point of it was about .006 off of the plate of the table. I cut the glued up veneer strips into Vees .500 wide at one end and 1.5 inch at the other. These I hold in place with a couple of aluminum guides and held in position from vacuum that is created with a shop vac. This didn't work very well however as the V cutter would cause to much vibration and chatter cutting through all those glued up veneers in one pass. I have a CNC so I just mounted the vacuum plate onto the table of the CNC and I use the V cutter in it's Precise, precision router and make a few passes going a little deeper each time and it cuts the veneer stack perfectly so that it can be folded. I made the vacuum table very easily on my mill by taking a piece of aluminum bar 1 X 2 X 14 inch long and routing a pocket in the center close to the bottom, boring a hole in the end and fitting a PVC fitting and taking a piece of aluminum flat stock and bolting to the top of the aluminum bar that I had pocketed. I then drilled a number of holes in the top plate and ran the hose from a shop vac to the fitting. I slip the veneer stack into the guides and when I start the vac the veneer is pulled down so that it can't move and then I run the V cutter right down the center. Works perfectly as anyone who has ever seen my mitered veneers can vouch.
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