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Just a quick and dirty setup for reducing thickness of plastic binding. The utility knife blade is clamped in a vise with just enough protruding to make room for the shavings. The guide is a piece of rod held in a mill or drill chuck (unplug the drill). I filed a slight taper on the bottom end to make it easier to slip the binding in between. You can shave about half the length and then flip it end for end and pull the other half thru. Taking just a few thousandths at a time produces a nice ribbon and doesn't pull too hard. Leaves a very smooth and uniform surface.
A vertical mill works nice for adjusting the the amount shaved each pass.
Nelson

Nelson,

Cool! Thanks for sharing. Simple and easy.

Jeff

I have used the thickness sander with the binding mounted on a sled but it seems like plastic doesn't sand very well leaving a fairly coarse finish.
Nelson

Nelson what a neat little trimmer. It is so cool to see how you guys come up with stuff that is easy and economical to do things. simple is alot of the time the best

I always try to find the simplest solution to a problem. The old KISS "keep it simple stupid" usually takes more thought up front but in the long run seems to work best.

Nelson, have you tried this with wood bindings? If so, what were your results and were there any modifications to the approach? Thanks for a clever idea!

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Steve--Have not tried with wood but suspect that it would not work as well depending on the type of wood.
I would probably lean towards sanding to reduce the thickness of wood bindings. Perhaps a drum sander in a drill press with an adjustable fence? Or mount to a sled with double sided tape or small amount of CA and run thru thickness sander or planer?
Nelson

Great idea Nelson! Thanks for the idea. Again, just amazing, what ideas you can learn on this Forum. My only concern is that I don't forget them before I put them into practice. Memory isn't as good as it used to be. Keep those ideas coming in guys.

Here is a pic of a scraper mounted on a swing arm that indexes off of a block of wood that is laterally adjustable. The swing scraper blade is stopped against that wood screw. (very primative) The thickness is adjusted with the screw to the left. Well here is a pic or two



This thing is pretty handy for scraping down those little thin strips of wood purfling to an even thickness

How did I miss that at Christmas?

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