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Thread: Angled trench
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1st December 2004, 04:14 PM #1
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Angled trench
I'm a beginner. I have a table mounted Triton router and need to route a trench that is deeper along one edge than the other – say 20 mm and 10 mm deep respectively. Obviously I need to feed the timber in at an appropriate angle. Any ideas on how this can be achieved would be greatly appreciated.
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1st December 2004, 06:48 PM #2
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Rufeous,
You could temporarily fix a 10mm strip of timber to your work piece with hot melt glue or doublesided tape so that the timber is safely held at the angle needed or you could build a jig like my bevel routing guide. http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...ead.php?t=7210
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2nd December 2004, 10:28 AM #3
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Rufous ...
Can you explain a bit better what you are trying to do (a sketch perhaps?)
I have applications like this building a 6-sided planter box and a table where the legs wern't square on to the sides but at 45 degrees - this meant that I had to cut mortices in the legs at an angle. If this is your application, then it is probably best to use the router in plunge mode rather than in the table.
Use a copy ring on the base of the router, a piece of MDF as a template, cut a hole in the MDF that matches the dimensions of the trench (after allowing for the offset on the copy ring) then on the underneath side of the MDF screw some scrap timber that will allow your workpiece to be fixed at your required angle.
This method allows you to cur the trench (using say an up-cut spiral bit) in increments of 2-3 mm.
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