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13th June 2011, 05:58 PM #1
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Salvaged timber and planing router sled
I can't think of which topic to put this under so here will have to do
Picked myself up some ancient hardwood from my current job and thought it would make a nice workbench.
First up, I thought I'd make up the thicknesser sled from here. Alas, with my "she'll be right" attitude, I made the bugger too thick and I can't get the timber into the thicknesser. So while I figure out how to fix the problem I slapped a couple of pine guides down the length and knocked up a router carriage vaguely along the lines of this one.
And whaddaya know... it works a charm
I've wanted something like this for a good couple of years to clean up my freehand cut slabs and I'm chuffed to bits that something I made works as intended for once...well...almost, given that it's a fix to another problem.
Flattened one side of each bit of timber, bunged it through the thicknesser to clean up the other face and now I've got some lovely "rustic" timber to work with. I just need to make a jointing fence for my router table to clean up the sides and I'll be in building heaven
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13th June 2011, 06:38 PM #2
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very niiiiiiice
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13th June 2011, 07:04 PM #3
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Excellent!!
What bit did you use in the router and where did you get it??
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13th June 2011, 08:32 PM #4
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The bit was nothing special. Just a straight 19mm Carb-i-tool on a 1/2" shank I picked up from a local saw shop ages ago. I was going to try a 25mm 1/4" shank bit I got from Saws&Bits but it has a short head and it didn't look like it was going to reach.
Ideally I'd have something that was really wide and flat on a 1/2" shank just for doing stuff like this (like this 'un), but for the amount of timber I had to do it only took a few hours. Next time maybe; afterall, it would probably be a lot quicker.
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14th June 2011, 04:54 PM #5
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That's some great work and gave me a laugh on building too big.
We have another forum member about to build a bench. Maybe I should get around to doing one myself.
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21st June 2011, 09:46 PM #6
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FWIW: I've just ordered this pupy from Carb-i-tool.
A 2" wide cut is gonna be heaps quicker than 19mm
CMT's widest bit was only 1.5" btw.
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21st June 2011, 11:01 PM #7
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Good to know I'm not the only one in that demographic.....
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9th July 2011, 08:58 PM #8
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G'day Red Shirt Guy,
I made a similar jig in principle, but nowhere near as flash. I only had to flattern a Butchers Block. https://www.woodworkforums.com/f40/mi...76/#post508783
Anyway, I was advised to use a Tray bit. I had a look at the profile of a tray bit & decided that the curved ends of the cutter would prolly reduce tear out.
I havent used my jig since that job, actually, I lent it to my sister who is about 80kms away. prolly quicker to make a new one.
Good luck with it mate, let us know how you get on
SteveThe fact remains, that 97% of all statistics are made up, yet 87% of the population think they are real.
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9th July 2011, 10:02 PM #9
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I've seen the tray bits of which you speak and hadn't even considered them for reducing tearout. I'd always thought of them just for putting a nice round edge in the bottom of "boxes" while also using them for clearing out the waste. It's probably not a bad idea at all. I did find that the last cut would fling big shards out of the router as it broke the remaining "wall" of timber and those bits could possibly minimise that.
The big boy that I'm using now is saving oooooooodles of time when milling and I'm about to use it to do some large open mortises and tenons for the bench I'm building. The only problem with it for that job is that it's quite shallow (9.5.mm) and the job requires a few passes at different depths so it might not give me the super clean shoulders I'm after without having to sand. We shall soon see
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