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In this topic I told of my injury and here I tried with pictures to show how it happened. At that time I said that I would make a new jig as my first project once I was able to work in my shop again. I did so and that is today's topic.
This jig is for use with my table mounted router to hold odd shaped stock while routing the very end, which is what you must do for one half of a sliding dovetail joint. Since I have "T-track" installed in my router station I was able to use that and a carefully sized strip of walnut to guide the jig. I also used "T-track" and walnut strips to guide the jig at a 90° angle to this so as to be able to adjust the amount of material the router bit cut away with each pass. IN use the stock gets clamped to the jig with one toggle clamp and one spring clamp. It did it's job but adjustment was somewhat cumbersome. To make it track in a straight line past the cutter I assembled the lower plate and the cross slide plate and trimmed the edge with a straight bit in the router table. Only then did I attach the "backer" board that holds the clamp and workpiece.
working side view:
view of cut from back of router table
bottom plate view
cross slide view, tracks and runners
If I were to use this jig much I would probabaly add a micro adjustment device patterened after my tenoning jig. Hope you enjoyed this latest creation from my shop. As I think I said in one of the above topics concerning my injury there are several other ways to safely make this type of cut, hind-sight is 20/20 so think things through before turning your tools on and save yourself a bunch of pain, medical bills and grief! Not to mention the healing time away from the shop. All things considered I was very lucky mine was not worse, finger tip only has scars but it's all there.
This jig is for use with my table mounted router to hold odd shaped stock while routing the very end, which is what you must do for one half of a sliding dovetail joint. Since I have "T-track" installed in my router station I was able to use that and a carefully sized strip of walnut to guide the jig. I also used "T-track" and walnut strips to guide the jig at a 90° angle to this so as to be able to adjust the amount of material the router bit cut away with each pass. IN use the stock gets clamped to the jig with one toggle clamp and one spring clamp. It did it's job but adjustment was somewhat cumbersome. To make it track in a straight line past the cutter I assembled the lower plate and the cross slide plate and trimmed the edge with a straight bit in the router table. Only then did I attach the "backer" board that holds the clamp and workpiece.
working side view:
view of cut from back of router table
bottom plate view
cross slide view, tracks and runners
If I were to use this jig much I would probabaly add a micro adjustment device patterened after my tenoning jig. Hope you enjoyed this latest creation from my shop. As I think I said in one of the above topics concerning my injury there are several other ways to safely make this type of cut, hind-sight is 20/20 so think things through before turning your tools on and save yourself a bunch of pain, medical bills and grief! Not to mention the healing time away from the shop. All things considered I was very lucky mine was not worse, finger tip only has scars but it's all there.
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