mat 24th July 2008, 10:51 AM When making wooden featherboards is there an ideal timber to use? Conversely are there timber types to steer clear of?
orraloon 24th July 2008, 12:40 PM I dont know if anyone has nominated an ideal wood but just look for strait grain and no defects. I have used tas oak and that was ok. Spotted gum may be better as it will bend more. Avoid brittle timber.
Different 24th July 2008, 02:05 PM I have used most timbers but Fine straight grained knot free AAA grade Oregon is my favorite.
Ross
BobL 24th July 2008, 02:41 PM I used Jarrah because I had a zillion little 135 mm wide floor board offcuts.
http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/attachment.php?attachmentid=23665&d=1147869224
artme 24th July 2008, 08:03 PM I've used Oregan. pretty good.
Dengue 24th July 2008, 08:38 PM BobL, any chances of some more photos of your router table fence, so we can see its design ? looks great!
regards,
Jill
BobL 24th July 2008, 08:59 PM Here (http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/showthread.php?t=30427&page=2) you go. It's built on a router extension wing of a TS.
Dengue 24th July 2008, 11:38 PM Thanks BobL - it is very impressive, very solid
Jill
Sawdust Maker 25th July 2008, 11:39 AM Bob
Is that an aftermarket router add on plate for the table saw?
what do you think of it? easy to fit/pain in the behind/etc?
I'm tossing up whether to buy one (carbi sell one for $475) or make a dedicated unit. $475 is a bit of loot, after all.
cheers
Nick
damian 25th July 2008, 07:31 PM TTD brisbane have a router table with a good fence, tilt up top for access to the router and steel legs for $420. Carbatec ahve another table saw extension router table for $169 plus $230 for teh fence as I recall, the one your talking about has the removable insert, which you probably don't need if your hanging it out in the breeze.
I took some photos today but teh one of the freestanding table got corrupted. I'm about to build a webpage of the other stuff including the cheaper carbatec table as fitted to the TTD saw table.
Some big pics, no text yet.
http://home.exetel.com.au/guzzi/tablesaw.html
BobL 25th July 2008, 09:16 PM Bob
Is that an aftermarket router add on plate for the table saw?
It's an after market REW (Router Extension Wing). I got it as part of the package when I bought the TS in early 2006. I think I paid $100 for it and it was $149 at the time and is now $159. See Here (http://www.timbecon.com.au/details/router-extension-wing-13461.aspx).
what do you think of it? easy to fit/pain in the behind/etc?
It was quite easy to fit. I needed to drill 3 holes in the TS top otherwise it was OK. The REW was smaller than my TS top so I had to make a surround for it.
http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/attachment.php?attachmentid=78800&stc=1&d=1216980489
I'm tossing up whether to buy one (carbi sell one for $475) or make a dedicated unit. $475 is a bit of loot, after all.
I used a L shaped 32 mm thick pale grey melamine and bolted it to the REW to fill in the length deficiency and make the table a little wider so that I could add a T-Track at the edge of the REW. The jarrah surround was some scraps of skirting board I had left from some renovations.
I already had the melamine so all it cost me apart from the REW was the cost of some T-track.
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