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- From: rhaar@albert.cs.gmr.com (Bob Haar)
- Newsgroups: rec.woodworking
- Subject: Re: Router Table Inquiries
- Message-ID: <93459@rphroy.ph.gmr.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 13:12:14 GMT
- References: <1992Nov14.014504.15620@adobe.com>
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- In article 15620@adobe.com, bennett@adobe.com (Bennett Leeds) writes:
- |>Stan Armstrong writes
- |>> If it is ease of cutting mortises you are after, consider one of the
- |>> horizontal router mounting jigs that allow you to mount your router
- |>> at the back of the table with the bit parallel to the top. The
- |>> height of the bit above the table is regulated by swingine the router
- |>> about a pivot. This would let you use your plunge capability and
- |>> thus eliminate the need to pivot the workpiece.
- |>
- |>So, we clamp the wood to the table, plunge the router horizontally,
- |>then unclamp the wood so we can slide it along the vertical fence,
- |>then clamp the wood back down, and then unplunge the router?
- |>
- |>Sounds awkward to me.
- |>
- |>And, if you don't clamp the wood down, you've got to have a hand holding
- |>it while you use the other to plunge the router in.
- |>
- |>Sounds dangerous to me.
- |>
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- I am not sure about the mortising table design Stan was discussing,
- but I built one from the WoodSMith plans. In this one, you
- don't plunge the router, you move the wood.
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- The big advantage of this setup is that the work piece is resting flat
- on a table surface. This makes it much easier to control. And you can
- clamp temporary guides pieces to the table to act as stops.
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- Computer Science Dept., G.M. Research and Environmental Staff
- DISCLAIMER: Unless indicated otherwise, everything in this note is
- personal opinion, not an official statement of General Motors Corp.
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