In a preferred embodiment, a machine for milling doors and/or drawer fronts, including: apparatus to horizontally clamp a door or drawer front to a horizontal movable table; apparatus to remove vertically disposed scribe pins from the door and/or drawer front, backs of the vertically disposed scribe pins defining a position of a frame to be spaced from the door and/or drawer front by a reveal; points disposed at the lower end of the vertically disposed scribe pins, flush with the backs, the points inserted into the door or drawer front; and apparatus to move the movable table such as to move the door or drawer front past a cutter head, the cutter head cutting the door or drawer front at least from a line in which lie the backs to a finished edge of the door or drawer front. A method of using the milling machine is also provided.
The machine has stopper pins for locating two or more truss members to be connected in respective predetermined design positions and a press head adapted for movement from a pre-pressing position in which one or two nail plates may be loaded for pressing to a range of pressing positions in which the nail plates may be pressed into engagement with adjacent truss members in a predetermined securing position by reference to an outside edge of one of the truss members. Securing mechanism on the press head are adapted to secure different sized magazines, each magazine being adapted to hold a plurality of nail plates of a predetermined size. The securing mechanism is adapted to secure each sized magazine in a position in which a selected edge of a nail plate is in a predetermined loading position irrespective of the magazine selected.
