Thread: Get even more from your router

One of the most difficult joints to produce on the Super Jig has been the dovetail joint. I have sat down and produced the detailed drawings but I still have not been able to produce the necessary notes that could be passed on to others. I had better results with the one I produced for the wood show. Has anyone else made a Jig to produce the dovetails I know people might say why not buy one I suppose the reason is I do not make lots of dovetail joints to warrant the purchase of the expensive jigs

My visit to Townsville has ended up a twofold visit as one of the members asked if I would consider doing a small demonstration when I was here. As I have time on my hands and with the assistance of Ian I will be presenting a demo (hands-on) Thursday 24th If anyone is interested I will forward details once I clear it with the owner of the business.
I will be presenting some new routing techniques on the use of my Super Jig. I could not bring the original but hopefully the Mini Super Jig will give you some idea how it all works. I did bring all the way from Perth some other Templates illustrating other projects that you may find of interest
Tom

Originally Posted by Template Tom

My visit to Townsville has ended up a twofold visit as one of the members asked if I would consider doing a small demonstration when I was here. As I have time on my hands and with the assistance of Ian I will be presenting a demo (hands-on) Thursday 24th If anyone is interested I will forward details once I clear it with the owner of the business.
I will be presenting some new routing techniques on the use of my Super Jig. I could not bring the original but hopefully the Mini Super Jig will give you some idea how it all works. I did bring all the way from Perth some other Templates illustrating other projects that you may find of interest
Tom

For more information log on to www.jettoolshop.com.au
or come along at 5.30 on Thursday 24th Unit3/7 Civil Road Carbutt Townsville
Call Allan on 4728 3079
Tom

Originally Posted by Template Tom

For more information log on to Jet Tool Shop Townsville
or come along at 5.30 on Thursday 24th Unit3/7 Civil Road Carbutt Townsville
Call Allan on 4728 3079
Tom

Back home after an interesting meeting with the Townsville members who attended the demonstration I had planned My Thanks to Ian for letting me into his workshop to prepare a simple version of my Super Jig to rout a tenon and a twin tenon all done in seconds and the new Jig Holder I have been using ffor some months now.
I had also taken along some of my light templates that were used with the Jig Holders to demonstrate the new routing techniques I have developed. It was also an oportunity to introduce new routing cutters to the group. I say new but they have been arround for a long time produced here in Australia by Carb I Tool, so what I submitted was a method of using such cutters as they are seldom used.
I also demonstrated a better method of giving support to the router simple by introducing two metal rods.
There were many requests to show other techniques I have developed.
The Super Jig I had completed for the Perth wood show is new and was demonstrated in September for the first time and there have been many requests for more details of it's construction and what it can produce.
Now that I am back home I will be concentrating on completing the many details with drawings and pics along with a number of videos showing how simple the various processes are performed. What is important that all the processes are carried out with Greater Safety Awareness
Be back soon
Tom

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I also demonstrated a better method of giving support to the router simple by introducing two metal rods.

Tom[/QUOTE]

Interesting - any further info?

Hi Bob38s
I think what Tom is talking about are skis. Two metal rods and a cheek made out of MDF on either end. see attached photo.

Regards

Harold

Originally Posted by pal

Hi Bob38s
I think what Tom is talking about are skis. Two metal rods and a cheek made out of MDF on either end. see attached photo.

Regards

Harold

You are quite correct I made the set of skis some 25 years ago when I first investigated the use of the template guides. I have used them on many occasions to complete projects with Greater safety awareness. Most of the lads from Townsville had never seen the skis used and shown great interest on how they were used.

Actually, in Townsville Tom didn't have the end pieces for the skis, so he improvised. He just put the router on the workpiece, then the rods in the router base as shown in the above picture, and under the rod ends packed some timber to the height of the underside of the rods.

It certainly stopped the router from tilting, and gave great mechanical advantage in manoeuvering the router by holding the ends of the rods and moving the router around. It was a very stable operation

The title making the templates comes up very often when doing demonstrations. How do I get the so neat and perfect shapes. I suppose I have been lucky as I was a Tachnical teacher for over 30 years and one of my subjects was Technical Drawing that I was presenting to Leaving Students so drawing comes natural to me.

To make things easier when designing my projects I produced some 2mm graph paper on my computer using my Cad programme(Then I found it was available already on the computer)
On a visit to the local Newsagent in Annandale I came accross a science book 2mm Graph paper and before I made my presentation at Jet tool store I produced the various projects on paper to let others see how simple it was.

I strongly recommend that you purchase such material ($2.00 per book) and set about designing your next project as it is much easier than doing the calculations in your head or even producing free hand sketches.

Here are samples of the drawins produced when constructing the template insert when producing the Bridle joint

Tom

Originally Posted by pal

Hi Bob38s
I think what Tom is talking about are skis. Two metal rods and a cheek made out of MDF on either end. see attached photo.

Regards

Harold

My apology as I could not get the photo posted when I when I looked in first, hence the reason I posted my pic
Tom

No problems Tom, both pictures will give other members a good look at how they are made.

Harold

Now I understand - thanks for the idea and the explanation.

Regards,
Bob

Originally Posted by Template Tom

The title making the templates comes up very often when doing demonstrations. How do I get the so neat and perfect shapes. I suppose I have been lucky as I was a Tachnical teacher for over 30 years and one of my subjects was Technical Drawing that I was presenting to Leaving Students so drawing comes natural to me.

To make things easier when designing my projects I produced some 2mm graph paper on my computer using my Cad programme(Then I found it was available already on the computer)
On a visit to the local Newsagent in Annandale I came accross a science book 2mm Graph paper and before I made my presentation at Jet tool store I produced the various projects on paper to let others see how simple it was.

I strongly recommend that you purchase such material ($2.00 per book) and set about designing your next project as it is much easier than doing the calculations in your head or even producing free hand sketches.

Here are samples of the drawings produced when constructing the template insert when producing the Bridle joint

Tom

The means of supporting the template inserts such as the one above has been solved. Here is a pic if the Fixture I produced to hold the insert in position when I was routing the ends of the Tenons
Also the initial sketches produce in Townsville before I went to do a demonstration. working with the graph paper also the isometric paper I made on the computer

Routing with Tom O'Donnell - YouTube

A little more information on the Super Jig
Tom