Walter Cleeson
05-18-2008, 12:02 PM
I am enough of a noob, to ask dumb questions like this,so here goes:
I just watched an episode of Wood Works where David used a large circular template made of 1/8" mdf for a round table top. I am just puzzled a bit as to why he put the effort into the template. The entire process wasn't shown, but he made the outline for the template with a trammel arm. He then used the template as a guide to size the boards for the glue up, and also to trace the line for his jigsaw cut.
My question is why couldn't he have just used the trammel arm for the cut line instead of bothering with the template? He did not use the template to finish the cut with a flush trim router bit, but rather a trammel mounted router. Assuming this was a one time project, the only benefit I saw for the template was helping with the initial board layout. But it seems that could have been accomplished in other ways.
Just curious.
-Walter
I just watched an episode of Wood Works where David used a large circular template made of 1/8" mdf for a round table top. I am just puzzled a bit as to why he put the effort into the template. The entire process wasn't shown, but he made the outline for the template with a trammel arm. He then used the template as a guide to size the boards for the glue up, and also to trace the line for his jigsaw cut.
My question is why couldn't he have just used the trammel arm for the cut line instead of bothering with the template? He did not use the template to finish the cut with a flush trim router bit, but rather a trammel mounted router. Assuming this was a one time project, the only benefit I saw for the template was helping with the initial board layout. But it seems that could have been accomplished in other ways.
Just curious.
-Walter