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micahmed
 Post subject: A4 Kerfing
PostPosted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 12:12 am 
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so I was thinking of getting some since I'm building cutaways. Is it worth the extra money to get that over regular kerfing?
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 Post subject: Re: A4 Kerfing
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I don't do cutaways, but I love the stuff. You do have to be pretty careful when working with it, though, as it's very brittle, and chips easily.

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 Post subject: Re: A4 Kerfing
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I bought Ryan's clamps for kerf gluing. I use the regular triangular kerfing, which he offers clamps for.
The work perfectly.
If you try his A4 kerfing, I'd get the clamps too, they're shaped perfectly, have the right amount of tension, and index the top of the side to get the kerfing flush easily and quickly.

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 Post subject: Re: A4 Kerfing
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The A-4 Kerfing works great on cutaways. You don't need the clamps, pretty much any clamp of your choice will work. The stuff lays in so easy!

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okay you guys got me sold on it haha. I just really like the way they look.
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 Post subject: Re: A4 Kerfing
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+1 on that!

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now the trick for me is to glue it up and clean as they did in the pictures on there website laughing6-hehe
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