Jim Shaver, Oakville Ont
08-10-2003, 3:43 PM
Hi,
I thought I might share some of the lessons I learned this weekend about using a mitre lock bit.
I am building a pair of Morris Chairs and decided that the four sided Stickley method of making legs would be a nice new skill to learn. I received some excellent advice and options here as to methods and even a few web site demo’s.
Well, I am using two different woods, curly cherry and curly quarter sawn white oak.
Let’s see, where do I begin,
• Use set up pieces of the same thickness to set the bit height and fence position.•
• If you set up the bit and the fence with sample pieces make sure that they are going to be run in the same mode during your REAL run…..I set mine up with push blocks then used a panel jig…duh, different results.
• Make sure your fence is securely fasten to the table, mine wandered…….explicative deleted
• Make sure that your fence is indeed flat over the full length……. explicative deleted.
• Check that the route bit height control is tight ……….explicative deleted
• Do you know how much fun QS curly white oak is to route, wear hearing protection
• Cut extra leg pieces when milling, you’ll need them and running through the whole milling process for two extra legs is a pain.
I set out to make 8 legs, ended up making 10…….explicative deleted. The cherry was a dream to route, great fit once the set up was tightened down and secured…….the white oak was ……well…………explicative deleted.
I made-used the jigs described in the Mission Furniture manual published by Taunton Press, they are great!
I probably went through 12 set up pairs of trial ply wood to get the bit setting, saving the final set up pieces for future reference…. But then again, by then I will have a new router fence that is flat the entire length of the table……….the things you can learn in a day amaze me…….
Smile,
I am Jimmy, the legs are cut, now the glue up…………..what can possibly go wrong…
;)
Take care,
Jim
I thought I might share some of the lessons I learned this weekend about using a mitre lock bit.
I am building a pair of Morris Chairs and decided that the four sided Stickley method of making legs would be a nice new skill to learn. I received some excellent advice and options here as to methods and even a few web site demo’s.
Well, I am using two different woods, curly cherry and curly quarter sawn white oak.
Let’s see, where do I begin,
• Use set up pieces of the same thickness to set the bit height and fence position.•
• If you set up the bit and the fence with sample pieces make sure that they are going to be run in the same mode during your REAL run…..I set mine up with push blocks then used a panel jig…duh, different results.
• Make sure your fence is securely fasten to the table, mine wandered…….explicative deleted
• Make sure that your fence is indeed flat over the full length……. explicative deleted.
• Check that the route bit height control is tight ……….explicative deleted
• Do you know how much fun QS curly white oak is to route, wear hearing protection
• Cut extra leg pieces when milling, you’ll need them and running through the whole milling process for two extra legs is a pain.
I set out to make 8 legs, ended up making 10…….explicative deleted. The cherry was a dream to route, great fit once the set up was tightened down and secured…….the white oak was ……well…………explicative deleted.
I made-used the jigs described in the Mission Furniture manual published by Taunton Press, they are great!
I probably went through 12 set up pairs of trial ply wood to get the bit setting, saving the final set up pieces for future reference…. But then again, by then I will have a new router fence that is flat the entire length of the table……….the things you can learn in a day amaze me…….
Smile,
I am Jimmy, the legs are cut, now the glue up…………..what can possibly go wrong…
;)
Take care,
Jim