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[Keith Larrett]

I see from your pictures that you are using a lot of screws to hold things to your spoil board. Same here until I discovered Raptor nails and the Omer nailgun. The nails are plastic and strong as all get out, in tension. They will shear cleanly if you give the item that they are holding a good whack with a mallet.
The beauty of this is twofold. First you can put something down rapidly and remove it rapidly. Second if you hit a hold down with the cutter you will never know about it. Your bit just cuts the nail and goes on its way. I have even used this feature to hold stuff in an area where there was cutting happening but later would be concealed.
The nail Gun is a specially built thing that costs about $350. But the time and effort it saves will pay for itself in short order.
Do a search on this forum. Lots of talk about this in the past.

Thanks for the recommendation. Yes, I had looked into the Raptor gun a while back. At the time most of my cutting was sheet goods with vacuum hold down and I couldn't justify the cost of the Raptor. I'm cutting more and more hardwood and hold down is always an issue. As you say, the screws are time consuming and nerve wracking. I will take your advice and get a Raptor. Which one are you using? Looking at the website I was thinking the OMER® B17P.763 Finish Nailer would be a good choice. 15 gauge, fires nails from 1/2" to 2 1/4".

http://raptornails.com/product-catalog/nailers.php

I would use a vacuum puck that would raise the part off the table and hold it at the same time.

Yes. That's what I was thinking. What I don't know is how to program the cut in V Carve/Aspire.

[tlempicke]

I have that exact gun and I am very happy with it. I got it here
http://www.boatdesigns.com/Raptorreg.../products/926/
It is a boat building site. The non rusting quality of plastic nails makes it a big thing for boat builders.
I use 1 1/4 inch nails in it most of the time.