Routing the ends of long, narrow pieces

[Prashun Patel]

I have to route the ends of a bunch of 2x2 stock.
Does anyone have pix of a jig that will do this?

[Neil Brooks]

I use my MLCS coping sled. It was born to do ... exactly what you have to do.

http://images.meredith.com/wood/images/2009/06/p_RocklerCS.jpg

[Rod Sheridan]

A home made coping sled works well also.......Rod.

[Prashun Patel]

The problem with the coping sled is I want to make sliding dovetails in the ends of my pieces. The bit won't be oriented properly if I run the piece through horizontally. I need to run it thru vertically...I think, that is.

[David Hawxhurst]

this is like the one i made.

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b109/wascallyrabbit/th_tenon-jig-labels.jpg (http://s18.photobucket.com/albums/b109/wascallyrabbit/?action=view&current=tenon-jig-labels.jpg)

[Kyle Iwamoto]

You can stand the piece up on a home made coping sled too.

[Craig Michael]

Yeah, just make a home made cross between a coping sled and a tenon jig.

[Jim Rimmer]

Yeah, just make a home made cross between a coping sled and a tenon jig.
I don't have one but was wondering if a tenoning jig would work. Maybe mounted on a temporary base for the RT?

[paul dyar]

I just did some on 5" pieces. I used tenon jig on the router table.
Paul

[Peter Aeschliman]

I think this might be a good job for hand tools... you can rip a guide piece on the table saw at the angle you want for your dovetails. Clamp the stock on the bench with one face down on the table, and clamp your guide to the table perpendicular to the end grain. Use the guide and a chisel.

Better to see pictures. scroll about halfway down on this page to see what I'm talking about:

http://richardmagbanua.blogspot.com/2009/12/stopped-sliding-dovetails-by-hand.html

[Jerome Hanby]

A home made coping sled works well also.......Rod.

Or split the difference and make a coping sled from an Incra Build it kit

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[Aaron Berk]

ShopNotes did an issue with a table saw dove tail jig. Have a blade custom ground to your 7 degree bevel, then tilt your blade, and run your stock through on a sled, or tenoning jig for 2x2's

They made it look perfect and simple.

Where are the bandsaw ppl at? I know your task could be done on a bandsaw as well.

[Rich Noterman]

I did some small 2x2 all 4 sides and clamped them up in a bar clamp and did 4 at a time

[Neal Clayton]

i was gonna say that too.

better that way, they all wind up the same.

when i'm doing lots of small muntins for windows or french doors i cut them to length that way too.

the measurement isn't as critical as the fact that they're all exactly the same when you're finished. the rest is adjustable later on ;).

[glenn bradley]

+1 on a tenon jig.