[CharleyL]

Nice job on the jig, but it looks to me like you are making your splines with the grain going the wrong direction. For spline joints the grain should run across the narrow direction. Your jig seems to be cutting long strips with the grain running end to end instead of the direction that It should.

Maybe I'm just looking at it wrong, but I use a table saw tenoning jig and stand the board up on end in the jig. I set the jig so the blade creates a spline of exactly the thickness that I need for the spline.Then I make a pass and flip the board over and make another pass. Then I cut these splines off with my chop saw, producing two splines the width of the board with the grain running across the spline in the narrow direction. Then I put the board on end back in the tenon jig and cut two more the width of the board, then back to the chop saw, and repeat again, until I have enough splines to do the four corners of the project. I'm about to glue up the four sides of a mitered and splined box from mahogany and I'm making four of them, so 16 box sides with a splined 45 deg miter cut on each end.

Charley

 

[CharleyL]

The splines that I recently made were 0.187" thick, made by using my Delta tenon jig. Like I said in my previous post #7 above, I cut one spline from each side of the board with the spline length being the width of the board. I then cut them off the end of the board the width that I need using my miter saw and stop block, then back to the table saw to make another pair of splines, etc. It's kind of odd to be saving what is normally the waste from cutting tenons with the tenon jig, but it works well. The wood that I'm using is 5/8" thick mahogany and the splines will be used to join the corners of some 5" square mitered mahogany boxes. The boxes will become urns for cremated cats. I've made many urns before, but none this small. A new post with pictures will follow when they are finally complete, but progress has been slow because of my yard maintenance and Summer chores. It's been very tough to find shop time this Summer with all the rain that we have had, making things grow faster than I can cut them.

Charley