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    Default Two fit ups

    Hi all,

    A couple of fit-ups I made for my niece and nephew. Tasmanian blackwood. Dials are 92mm diameter.

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    Very nice. Well done. I take it the main part is a single solid board?

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    Thanks Daveman. Yes, each main piece from a 38mm board. The inset hole, 58mm diameter, was routered in and about 20mm deep.
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    Very elegant
    The person who never made a mistake never made anything

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    Very nice.

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    Traditional style mantle clocks still look great today.

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    Very Very nice. I love the mantle clocks they look great. I have been trying now for ages but have never found a teplate to copy off. They look so simple but they are so easy to get wrong with the sides looking difeerent. However your look great well done.

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    Nice work there

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dorno View Post
    Very Very nice. I love the mantle clocks they look great. I have been trying now for ages but have never found a teplate to copy off. They look so simple but they are so easy to get wrong with the sides looking difeerent. However your look great well done.

    Cheers ian
    Why not make your own templates starting with the clock diameter then proceeding with the external shape .You will need to construct a male template using the router in the table mode or produce a female Template working with template guides. Which is the safer method. This will require the construction of a simple jig to hold the material secure during the process. This is the method I prefer to use as the construction can be produced taking small cuts with the router.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swifty View Post
    Hi all,

    A couple of fit-ups I made for my niece and nephew. Tasmanian blackwood. Dials are 92mm diameter.

    Cheers!
    Very nice job. Could you explain what method was used produce the external edges
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    Hi Tom, thanks for your interest. The design is shown below, it is a simple combination of semicircles with radius 58mm connected at the centre line of the clock on each side. The design plan is a bit grotty, splattered with shellac! But I kept in just in case. I redrew these curves on the blackwood, cut out roughly on the bandsaw then smoothed on a sanding attachment on the drill press. Then it was a laborious hand-sanding job on the curved surfaces. I thought about routering this, but the stock is 38mm thick so I avoided that. Also, blackwood is notorious for burning when routered, especially end-grain which is most of that curved surface! I ummed and ahhed about the recess hole for the fit up, eventually deciding to router this out. You can see the routing template I made from pine, to accept the top-mounted bearing from a flush-trim bit. (I drilled the hole in the pine using a 58mm door bit.) I used a hand-held router, plunging first in the middle to correct depth for the bearing, then locked it down and slowly emptied the hole using small cuts. I screwed this pine template onto the blackwood, knowing that the screw holes will be hidden by the fit-up.
    When that was all done, I drilled the screw holes to hold the base and main piece, then did the French polish.
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    Enclosed photograph of another clock design only this project has been constructed using template guides and holding the material secure during the process in a simple homemade jig. T he material was held secure and the router was held in the plunge mode. This is a project has been completed by a number of members of our local men's shed, people that have only recently been introduced to the use of the router.
    I've just researched my computer and I have found details of the jig and templates that was required to complete the project, if there is any interest i will try and post on the forum
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    Enclosed are samples of the template/guides/and Cutters that were selected to complete a clock similar to the project presented
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    Quote Originally Posted by Template Tom View Post
    Why not make your own templates
    Because, unless you're making a reasonable number of pieces, router templates are extremely time inefficient; especially if you're making templates for bushings instead of a simple bearing bit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by elanjacobs View Post
    Because, unless you're making a reasonable number of pieces, router templates are extremely time inefficient; especially if you're making templates for bushings instead of a simple bearing bit.
    There are some projects if you really wish to make, that will require the construction of a Jig and templates. The simple bearing bits are not the ideal method when using template .We are talking about the bearing located at the top of the cutter's I'm convinced that many templates would have been destroyed with the use of such a bit also there are a limited number of variety of cutters shape when you can compare the larger selection that can be used when using the template guides, That is one of the reason i recommend Taking up the challenge and learn how the templates can enable a greater range of projects to be achieved
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