I don't think so. I have finger jointed some baseboard for a "honey do"
project and the wider the board the easier it is to screw up. With my 1
3/4" wide strips you just make sure you are flat on the table and don't feed
to deep or to fast on each pass. Once to depth just roll the strip to the
other end of the sawhorses and grab the next one. The time consuming part
was manipulating the 16' strips. Once I had the sawhorses loaded up I could
run through a batch rather quickly.

You do end up with a LOT of chips. My lab loved to lay in the pile under
the router and after I finished a batch he would be completely covered.
With all that white cedar bedding he didn't have a flea all summer. :-)

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Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com

"Jim Conlin" wrote in message
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Glenn-
Would it save time to cut the finger joint on the ends of the planks,
before
ripping the strips?
You'd have to be more careful handling them.


"Glenn Ashmore" wrote in message
news:xrSSg.10853$rg1.8349@dukeread01...
I used my 3hp router mounted on a table set on a portable work bench and
a
$50 Amana finger jointing bit. Stacked a batch of the strips on
sawhorses
set at the same level as the table and cut one end of each strip. Then I
moved the router to the other end of the stack and cut that end. Took
about
2 days to cut fingers on both ends of 400 16' strips with minimum
material
handling.

--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com

"Dave W" wrote in message
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Has anyone found a reasonably priced shaper cutter for making finger
joints in "planking" for strip built boats? Thanks in advance
Dave