Hi All,
I am looking for some advice on routing Tiger Wood.
The project is for a curved handrail for a deck. The rail will be made up of 5 pieces of 3/4" thick tiger wood laminated together after they are machined.
I am just wondering what the best feedrates, tooling, cutting strategy (Conventional/climb??/) are for this type of wood.
Right now I am planning to use a 1/2" dia. up spiral router at about 350 IPM @ 18000 RPM and cut in 4 passes. With a rough cut first that will be offset from the finished part.
Does anyone have any experience with this wood?
I appreciate all thoughts on this.
Thanks
Richard
From contributor Bi
I'll bite what is Tiger Wood?
From contributor Ri
It's a tropical south american hardwood. Very hard. I am not much of an expert on exotic species to give much more info unfortunately.
Any thoughts?
Richard
From contributor Ji
I built an outdoor bar and covered an exterior half wall in vertical T&G in Tigerwood back in the summer.
Machines and routes OK. Very hard and brutal invisible splinters that will fester overnite.
Gluing presents some challenges of high failure, luckily all my pieces were machined from solids and short legths and were pocket screwed.
From contributor Ri
Thanks Jim.
What tooling did you use to route it ?
What type of glue did you find worked best?
Thanks again.
Richard
From contributor Ji
I used a 1/2" compression chip breaker from freud. I keep one in 5hp PC Speedmatic to use with templates on job.
I used TBII on the one piece I needed for the footrail. Last time I was at the house it looked fine.
