I am trying to add wood to plex via a rabbet router bit. I am not good a kerfs yet, and I am using exotic wood and have little room for error. Please see my design.
I want to cut an inner ellipse out of hard wood, and use a rabbet bit to add an edge. I want to insert the rabbet “cut edge” into the plex and add clock hands. I guess I can add an inner kerf on my hard wood ellipse. I hope to have a good friction fit so I don’t have to glue or attach the plex to the wood.
@nelsonmay if you feel that the wood is exotic and do not want to risk damaging it. why not play around with the plex instead? Try scaling up or down the hole of the plex until you get the fit you desire.
Even though it is exotic, I am a good enough woodworker that I can rabbet the edge. I was just getting opinions here. I have to make the piece of wood on the laser then cut the corner into the wood. The wood has to slide into the plex. I am trying to avoid glue, etc.
You actually gave me an idea. I could cut the wood without a rabbet, and just friction fit it in. I just wanted it to have two edges of contact so it stayed. I will play with it both ways with a piece of plywood to get my tolerances.
I understand, if you have to maintain a certain fit between 2 components, it is always better to keep the dimensions of 1 product fixed so you can control the fit by changing the dimensions of the other component. In this case if you can maintain the wood cutting parameters as it is and rabbet the edge, them retrofit the plex to it by trying different the elliptical hole sizes it will be easier. It might take a couple of tries but cutting plex is easier and cheaper no?
