David Rose
04-01-2006, 1:59 AM
I cut the flutes on two stiles very neatly on the router table. They came out as nearly perfect as anything I have done. That should have tipped me off that "great things were to come". Would you believe I glued the stiles in fine. One with short flutes up, the other down. :confused:
The next pics show my corrections. My ole Dewalt router has a tendency to create a nice bulb when I plunge it. I think alignment is different when it is free than when it is locked. At any rate, since I knew that, I couldn't just slap an edge guide on aligned with the old flutes.
I built a Bill Hylton modified frame to align with the old flutes. This allowed me to set the router depth like a fixed base and tip it down. The drill rod pieces allowed me to set the 'guide plate' on them to set the frame and align it with the flutes. I had to do little to no sanding to match up the flute cuts! Yay! Two of them out of six required slight sanding.
Thanks for the help!
The next pics show my corrections. My ole Dewalt router has a tendency to create a nice bulb when I plunge it. I think alignment is different when it is free than when it is locked. At any rate, since I knew that, I couldn't just slap an edge guide on aligned with the old flutes.
I built a Bill Hylton modified frame to align with the old flutes. This allowed me to set the router depth like a fixed base and tip it down. The drill rod pieces allowed me to set the 'guide plate' on them to set the frame and align it with the flutes. I had to do little to no sanding to match up the flute cuts! Yay! Two of them out of six required slight sanding.
Thanks for the help!