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John How should be able to provide you with one, but they are simple to make out of a piece of corian. The donut is 2" in diameter and has about a 15 degree slope on it. Cut out the circle with a 1/4" hole in the center, then put a bolt and nut thru the center and hold it on a drill. While spinning the donut in the drill rub it against a belt sander to the desired angle of slope.

I dont think the angle is too critical. The "point" of the cone is all that rides on the guitar body anyway. You will need to drillout the 1/4" hole afterwards to be just slightly larger than your routing bit in order to work right.

I can send you a chunk of 3/4" corian if you need it.

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Ken H

You could also have a look in the McMaster-Carr online catalog. They have UHMW tubing that may be useful, as well as UHMW pipe flanges (which are what I use). I don't have the stock number for the ones I use handy, but I'm sure you can find something useful in the catalog.

I just used the fly cutter on the drill press by changing the radius of the cutter. A bit tedious, but maybe not so considering you don't have to build jigs.

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Rich Smith
Issaquah, WA

I just headed to my favorite source of plastics: the plumbing section at the hardware store. Found a perfect donut, already threaded.... Might have been in the electrical section, too. Not sure, as it was a few years ago.

Simple. Think. Simple.

I have a different binding jig, but I used a steel washer as a "donut". If the thickness of the washer does not provide enough clearance for the router base / lazy susan, just add another one. Super glue everything.

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Rian Gitar og Mandolin

I'll have to walk the aisles

That's what I do. I'll just walk up and down and look at stuff. More often than not, I have no idea what I'm looking for, until I see it, then the "ah-ha!" moment hits. Do not be afraid to peruse the aisle, and the best ones are the older hardware stores. Forget the big new ones...

You mean I'm not the only person who does this

I take my kids with my, my 2 year old picks up almost everything he can reach and puts it in the cart. It makes for an interesting field trip.

The funny part in all this is when the store rep inevitably asks "can I help you find something" and you have to say "well, I don't really know what I'm looking for, but when I see it, I'll know "

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Do you guys have pics of the jig/part in question?

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Peter M.
Cornerstone Guitars
http://www.cornerstoneukes.com

I do it too. I'm always looking for something that will do a job that it was never intended to do, because I have a new idea, or need to fix something that is not designed to be fixed, or costs too much to fix if you take it to an expert. Sadly, I still have a lot of things that need fixing, since I started my guitar, and all of my hardware efforts have been for jigs and stuff.

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Rich Smith
Issaquah, WA

Hey Filippo,

Talk about perfect timing! I'm about to make one of these for my binding router setup (derived from the Fleischmann jig) too. I got my UHMW material from Woodcraft - they have grab bags of different thicknesses as well as long strips of various thickness stock. It wasn't too expensive. I'll post my progress here in a day or two.

Thanks for detailing the 12-step process Toddstock! You da man!!

Good luck,
Dave F.

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Cambrian Guitars

"There goes Mister Tic-Tac out the back with some bric-brac from the knick-knack rack"

Lookin' good, and a timely thread indeed! I've got mine all but assembled; tomorrow I mount the parallelogram assembly to the arm, and the arm to the lazy susan. Only thing missing is a bit of vacuum hose for the vac-u-clamp.com 'luthiers clamp' they had (still have?) on sale, so I can, y'know, connect the ventauri to the clamp. Found a local place that might carry the 1/4" tubing, otherwise I'll just order from the US. I didn't like the bulk and fiddliness of the carriage I built once, for a Ribekke-style binding machine I didn't get along with, figured a vacuum clamp that's adjustable in one plane, mounted on a small hinged plate for wedged bodies will negate the need for a bulky carriage I don't really have the space for.