joining plywood with puzzle joints???

[cutyourway]

If you laser cut your plywood, you can have any kind of splice you want. Fingerjointed, PuzzleJointed, horizontal joint, follow-the-woodgrain joint, whatever. If you find a 6-axis laser cutter, you could even do interlocking-puzzle-scarf joint! However, most laser cutting systems are only 3 axis, so it's easier/cheaper to only cut your splice at right angles.

www.cutyourway.com

[PAR]

The next time I find a 6 axis laser cutting machine with a 50" x 98" bed, I'll have to run over and grab it up . . .

[cutyourway]

Try Mazak, but remember they are the most expensive

[PAR]

I'm not sure what you're attempting to push Peter, cut files, machines, new customers, but CNC machine cut anything for a back yard builder is just cost prohibitive. Developing a cut file or paying to have one done, paying to have the materials cut, transportation is a given. How can a typical back yard builder, who's project is an 18' or smaller, single chine, powerboat (80% of the market) with maybe a dozen scarfs at most, justify the cost of machine done joints? Their trying to get the whole boat in for less then a couple of grand and your joints cost how much of a percentage of the project? For what? Accuracy that isn't remotely necessary on a set of plans that only go down to an 1/8 inch? They're doing the project to work with their hands.

That West System scarfer attachment is junk except on rough work that will be heavily faired latter.

[LP]

Originally Posted by PAR

The next time I find a 6 axis laser cutting machine with a 50" x 98" bed, I'll have to run over and grab it up . . .

Paul, you're such a cut up!

[michael pierzga]

Whats important to consider is that you can..at this moment....order marine ply by the sheet with the puzzle joint pre cut into the sheet of ply, ready for work. . In many applications the puzzle joint is the correct choice, so why not use it when called for. .

[PAR]

Again,Michael you've offered nothing. How about substantiating your claim that;

In many applications the puzzle joint is the correct choice

Also can you post a supplier of BS-1088 plywood panels with the joints you describe. Just one link will do. I'm just dieing to find out how much a finger joint costs on a full sheet. Should be a simple request and comparison, wouldn't you say, Michael?

[DGreenwood]

I don't know what kind of luck you fellas were born with but if I ordered puzzle joined ply wood I'm betting the ends would be so banged around and buggered up by the time I got them from the shipper, that I would have to spend a day sanding just to get them to fit together again.

[michael pierzga]

Originally Posted by PAR

Again,Michael you've offered nothing. How about substantiating your claim that;
Also can you post a supplier of BS-1088 plywood panels with the joints you describe. Just one link will do. I'm just dieing to find out how much a finger joint costs on a full sheet. Should be a simple request and comparison, wouldn't you say, Michael?

PAR, normally I wouldn't waste my time responding to your thoughts, But for your benifit, I suggest you really should get out more and open your mind. .


I can walk to the local furniture, kitchen cabinet, component maker and ask him to cut puzzle joints with his milling machine in any grade of ply I purchase. I live in a small city. Many milling machines around.

In the US I can simply order ply ,pre cut, from http://www.clcboats.com/shop/product...e-plywood.html

If you have situation i which the puzzle joint is the best joint for the job, order it pre cut . It with save you the time spent fabricating a template. .

[PAR]

Well, looky here the reply. A finger joint for 50 dollars (CLC offering), on a piece of 1/4" Okoume plywood, well yes, that's an economical option. So glad you pointed this out. Lets see a single $50 joint on an $80 sheet of plywood, well you've discovered something here.

As usual, you can't justify any of your your comments, though on this one rare occasion you have offered up a link to a service, where a single joint jacks up the base product cost by 40%.