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At first glance, you wonder, how does it work.

Then when you realize the bolts only hold on the spacer blocks and the entire router and blocks move as a skid to plane. Wood is held stationary. These photos are simply linked, not borrowed. It does appear useful.



Here it is with a lower setup. I'm sure you get close with the number of blocks, then do your final adjustments with the router. I'm not sure it's bolted on either.



This is a similar setup with a smaller router for thinning bone or corian nuts and saddles. Pretty sharp.Dickey38586.9807986111

It's like an inside-out router table. Cool! Actually, I can envision a useful modification for our purposes. How about making those side runners out of something ready-made and uniform, like stacks of MDF (with something sturdier on the bottom, like aluminum, to protect the fiberboard)? Then you could add or subtract height at will and reach routing euphoria.

I agree we can use this model and turbocharge it. I'd add some wing nuts for starters. The main thing is it works and is relatively safe. Most of us wouldn't have to leave the shop for any of these parts, eh? I keep bolts on hand for projects just like this. I had bolts in stock when I made my version.

Darn it this is another post that I don't get the pictures..What the heck is going on

Michael, it may be due to the picture size which are hosted elsewhere. Also the server may have been busy when you attempted to look. Each picture above is in the 214,000 byte range. I used to use a digital camera that only took pics in the 20 to 30,000 byte range, so I can load thirty pics as fast as the three above. Be patient and they should appear.

I finally found the email address for the guy that made this and he graciously gave me permission to post them here. His name is Robert May, some may know him already. He builds mainly electric guitar. I thought this take on a similar idea was worth sharing.

[QUOTE=MichaelP] Darn it this is another post that I don't get the pictures..What the heck is going on[/QUOTE]

You are not seeing them at all... what happens if you go to one of the HGF threads and look in those? Do you see the pics?

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Brock Poling
Columbus, Ohio
http://www.polingguitars.com

Bruce,

Thanks for sharing this. A very cool idea, and I know someone will take this and run with it, and make a production type setup (like you Bruce ).

Thank Mr. May for allowing us to see his great idea.

Jeff

I have a feeling you just did Jeff.

I see them fine. this happens about every week there will be one thread withpic that I never see the pis. If I go back to that thread days, weeks, months later I still never see the pics. Maybe one out of every 20 thread with pics does this to me

How about some "slippery" plastic (like HDPE?) for the feet of the runners.

And, how about making a simple, tiny vacuum table to hold the work flat. Maybe use pegboard over a frame with slats, and attach a vacuum from beneath?

Dennis

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Dennis Leahy
Duluth, MN, USA
7th Sense Multimedia

Bruce for some reason I am unable to see the pic If you would be so kind to email them to me. I would like to take a look (michael.payne@weatherford.com)

[QUOTE=MichaelP] I see them fine. this happens about every week there will be one thread withpic that I never see the pis. If I go back to that thread days, weeks, months later I still never see the pics. Maybe one out of every 20 thread with pics does this to me[/QUOTE]

My suspicion is Bruce may be on to something. If you can, try to pin it down to which type of pics you can't see... those that have been uploaded, or those that are linked in from different sites.

I am curious to see if your problems only occur on one class of postings.

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Brock Poling
Columbus, Ohio
http://www.polingguitars.com

Ok bruce are these linked or down loaded and what format i.e. file type

These are linked in.

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Brock Poling
Columbus, Ohio
http://www.polingguitars.com

How about lances HGF pics arethe linked or down loaded?

John Mayes just loaded twenty Healdsburg photos in another thread and it's taking forever to load. Those of us with dialup just have to wait if we want to see them, or go do something and come back.

Resizing photos is an easy task, especially if you have Windows XP, you can go to www.microsoft.com and download Resizer from their site and it becomes part of the Windows interface dealing with pic files, you can select four size variations, really nice.

I only have one problem and that's Lance's photo on the luthier's Bio Page, it never loads, everyone elses does, so there is something different about it at least for my system.Dickey38587.5331365741

Ok there is the issue. Our company firewall is blocking this site It could be because of several reasons one of the most common is that this contains Audio files or games or that this site has some issues with spyware, pop-up ads or other related problems anyway something is trigering our firewall.

Personal network storage is blocked by WebSence

Would you mind saving the pics on your computer and down loading them on this thread or emailing them to me so I could see. our firewall will not allow to link in any way to this site

Bruce, I prefer your design. To get as smooth a travel and cut as possible you need to take as much friction out of the system as possible. Your design does much better in this respect. If you could mount the stock being thinned on a sliding carriage then I think your design is the one that should fly. The adjustable plunge stop should take care of the thickness. Anyway, your design is an 'OLF' one, of course it's better!

Colin

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I don't believe in anything, I simply make use of a set of reasonable working hypotheses.

Colin, judging from the cut Robert got, his is doing the better job currently. I had a really difficult piece of material, a cupped, varied size slice of stubborn cocobolo, cupped into over an half inch arch, which made it impossible to get in my machine without going first to the bandsaw.

I wonder if there is a way to combine the two. Holding the material stationary had definite advantages. The cuts varied on mine due to the cup and the amount of force it took to hold it in place. Well, it doesn't hurt to look at other forms of the same machine. Definitely worth a look and consideration.

I didn't get permission to transmit these pictures, just to post a link to them Michael, sorry.

[QUOTE=DennisLeahy] How about some "slippery" plastic (like HDPE?) for the feet of the runners.[/QUOTE]

Dennis,

My first thought was, "An even better idea!", but then I remembered that, at least in my limited experience, a free-hand router is difficult to control, especially if you're trying to route straight, overlapping, lines (as in surfacing). I would need some friction to help control the router. What do you think?