Mark Carlson
01-07-2009, 10:37 PM
Last week I received a 24in steel extension from Quality Grinding. The extension has a cutout for a Woodpecker PRL router lift (the older version 1) . It also has a t miter slot milled into the top. Its 1/2in steel so it weighs in at 105 lbs.
I couldn't be happier with the quality of the workmanship. The top is deadflat and the router plate fits perfectly. It actually was a little too tight because of the ball bearing detents on the side. I ended up sanding off the gold paint on the edges to make it not so tight. I wanted to be able to easily remove the router lift so I could optional slip in a plate with a PC spindle sander. The sander plate doesn't have the ball bearing detents and fit perfectly.
I debated for awhile on how to arrange the existing two 8in extensions and the new 24in extension. I ended up mounting the QG extension to the right of the right extension followed by the extension that used to be on the left hand side of my saw. I got one of those Jessem sliders so that had to come offf.
One really nice side benefits to having all that cast iron and steel is that I can now use magjigs to attach my incra router fence. I have 4 mounted in a piece of plywood but only two are really needed. These are the 30mm versions and I can't move the fence when there engaged. I also have 320 grit sand paper glued to the bottom of the plywood.
Everyone at quality grinding was really nice to deal with. I had a bunch of questions and they called to ask me things like what type of miter slot did I want, regular or t slot as they were making it. They called after I got it to make sure everything was ok. Very pleasing experience.
I attached some pictures showing my new setup.
~mark
I couldn't be happier with the quality of the workmanship. The top is deadflat and the router plate fits perfectly. It actually was a little too tight because of the ball bearing detents on the side. I ended up sanding off the gold paint on the edges to make it not so tight. I wanted to be able to easily remove the router lift so I could optional slip in a plate with a PC spindle sander. The sander plate doesn't have the ball bearing detents and fit perfectly.
I debated for awhile on how to arrange the existing two 8in extensions and the new 24in extension. I ended up mounting the QG extension to the right of the right extension followed by the extension that used to be on the left hand side of my saw. I got one of those Jessem sliders so that had to come offf.
One really nice side benefits to having all that cast iron and steel is that I can now use magjigs to attach my incra router fence. I have 4 mounted in a piece of plywood but only two are really needed. These are the 30mm versions and I can't move the fence when there engaged. I also have 320 grit sand paper glued to the bottom of the plywood.
Everyone at quality grinding was really nice to deal with. I had a bunch of questions and they called to ask me things like what type of miter slot did I want, regular or t slot as they were making it. They called after I got it to make sure everything was ok. Very pleasing experience.
I attached some pictures showing my new setup.
~mark