glenn bradley
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I have been taking advantage of the fact that my buddy that helps me schlep larger pieces around the shop is on a cruise to Mexico. I had him help me move a couple items into the house to make room for yet another shop re-org. He comes back next week but, in the mean time I have been hitting the 'round-2-it' list. I have been after some sort of material control sled for the disc sander ever since I got it. I finally decided on this design which holds the material and allows an X / Y motion.
Here's a horrible picture of the dovetail guide bar material. Normally these are installed with screws into an 1/8" wide saw kerf. I had to recess the guide bars into the base a bit for my purposes.
Here is the other "half" of the jig and a shot of the opposite faces.
It goes together like so. The little blocks on the bottom, extreme right side, are stops to keep me from sanding the jig as well as the part ;-)
It allows for things like miter "adjustments" that might take till lunchtime if done on a shooting board. It will handle any number of quick tasks that I am always trying to do with a miter gauge which sometimes works well and sometimes works not-so-well. The benefit, for me, is material control.
Here's a horrible picture of the dovetail guide bar material. Normally these are installed with screws into an 1/8" wide saw kerf. I had to recess the guide bars into the base a bit for my purposes.
Here is the other "half" of the jig and a shot of the opposite faces.
It goes together like so. The little blocks on the bottom, extreme right side, are stops to keep me from sanding the jig as well as the part ;-)
It allows for things like miter "adjustments" that might take till lunchtime if done on a shooting board. It will handle any number of quick tasks that I am always trying to do with a miter gauge which sometimes works well and sometimes works not-so-well. The benefit, for me, is material control.