Mark Kosmowski
Member
- Messages
- 1,456
- Location
- Central (upstate) NY
Well, back in May my wife and I replaced the carpeting in the bedroom hallway with laminate flooring. The place we got the flooring from didn't have the right color transition pieces and due to a spatial transposition reality - brain disconnect (a goof) one of the transition pieces needs to be a bit wider than the commercially available bits are.
Last night, Ned stopped by to play with the lathe and I spent the evening fiddling with the router table finding the right height and fence stop to get the elliptically rounded over profile I wanted from a friend's bit (part of a Holbren raised panel set - I had to fiddle to get only the 1/3 of the profile that I wanted).
Among other things, I either learned or relearned that if I lock the router (a PC8529) in the "freely plunge" setting and use the above table adjustment know dealie that it is much easier to find a consistent height rather than monkeying around with trying to plunge the router up to a fixed height and locking it down with the plunge lock control. At any event, I now have the router setup to give the profile I want.
My goal for the weekend is to have, at a minimum, the transition pieces all ready for finishing. I'll check back later and post pics to let you all know if I've met my goal.
Last night, Ned stopped by to play with the lathe and I spent the evening fiddling with the router table finding the right height and fence stop to get the elliptically rounded over profile I wanted from a friend's bit (part of a Holbren raised panel set - I had to fiddle to get only the 1/3 of the profile that I wanted).
Among other things, I either learned or relearned that if I lock the router (a PC8529) in the "freely plunge" setting and use the above table adjustment know dealie that it is much easier to find a consistent height rather than monkeying around with trying to plunge the router up to a fixed height and locking it down with the plunge lock control. At any event, I now have the router setup to give the profile I want.
My goal for the weekend is to have, at a minimum, the transition pieces all ready for finishing. I'll check back later and post pics to let you all know if I've met my goal.
Last edited: