Some years ago Sears used to market a device for turning spirals on
legs. I am sure it had other uses as well. It was a bed with some
sort of mount above for seating a router. It had a crank on the end
and I believe was wire driven. You could turn the crank while running
your router and do spiral work quite easily. I am looking to buy one
but need to know what they are called first.

Joe

Joe Bleau wrote:
Some years ago Sears used to market a device for turning spirals on
legs. I am sure it had other uses as well. It was a bed with some
sort of mount above for seating a router. It had a crank on the end
and I believe was wire driven. You could turn the crank while running
your router and do spiral work quite easily. I am looking to buy one
but need to know what they are called first.

Joe


Router crafter .. .. .. surprisingly, they are selling in new or
like-new condition on e-Bay for $175-$250

Got one, never used it. A friend had one but needed space in his basement so
gave it to me. So now I just store it in case I find a need for it.

"__ Bob __" wrote in message
...
Joe Bleau wrote:
Some years ago Sears used to market a device for turning spirals on
legs. I am sure it had other uses as well. It was a bed with some
sort of mount above for seating a router. It had a crank on the end
and I believe was wire driven. You could turn the crank while running
your router and do spiral work quite easily. I am looking to buy one
but need to know what they are called first.

Joe


Router crafter .. .. .. surprisingly, they are selling in new or like-new
condition on e-Bay for $175-$250

Mon, Jan 29, 2007, 11:52pm (Joe*Bleau) doth
sayeth:
Some years ago Sears used to market a device for turning spirals on
legs. snip

I'm not interested in one myself, but last time I looked in a Sears
catalog, or maybe it was last time I was in a Sears, they still carried
them. Admitted that was quite a bit back, but I'm wondering if anyone
has checked to see if they still carry them.

However, somewhere, I have seen, or have, plans to make a jig that
will do the same. Somewhere I've got plans for a jig for routing flutes
too, but something like that would be a lot easier to figure out. So
some googling might come up with plans so you can make one - be a lot
more flexible in use than a store-bought one, and you could paint it any
color you wanted - I recommend yellow.. .



JOAT
Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will
acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
- Johann Von Schiller

On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:33:55 -0500, (J T)
wrote:

Mon, Jan 29, 2007, 11:52pm (Joe*Bleau) doth
sayeth:
Some years ago Sears used to market a device for turning spirals on
legs. snip

I believe that the router crafter is a Vermont America device that
sears branded and sold. Might check with Vermont America to see if
they still sell them, also.

I'm not interested in one myself, but last time I looked in a Sears
catalog, or maybe it was last time I was in a Sears, they still carried
them. Admitted that was quite a bit back, but I'm wondering if anyone
has checked to see if they still carry them.

However, somewhere, I have seen, or have, plans to make a jig that
will do the same. Somewhere I've got plans for a jig for routing flutes
too, but something like that would be a lot easier to figure out. So
some googling might come up with plans so you can make one - be a lot
more flexible in use than a store-bought one, and you could paint it any
color you wanted - I recommend yellow.. .



JOAT
Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will
acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
- Johann Von Schiller

On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:33:55 -0500, (J T)
wrote:

Mon, Jan 29, 2007, 11:52pm (Joe*Bleau) doth
sayeth:
Some years ago Sears used to market a device for turning spirals on
legs. snip

I'm not interested in one myself, but last time I looked in a Sears
catalog, or maybe it was last time I was in a Sears, they still carried
them. Admitted that was quite a bit back, but I'm wondering if anyone
has checked to see if they still carry them.

However, somewhere, I have seen, or have, plans to make a jig that
will do the same. Somewhere I've got plans for a jig for routing flutes
too, but something like that would be a lot easier to figure out. So
some googling might come up with plans so you can make one - be a lot
more flexible in use than a store-bought one, and you could paint it any
color you wanted - I recommend yellow.. .

Looked for one a while back--not on the Sears site or in the Sears
store or in the Sears catalog--it's an ex-product.

Legacy makes a number of ornamental mills that are somewhat upmarket
but serve a similar function http://www.legacywoodworking.com/ and
there's a cheap clone
http://www.houseoftools.com/product.htm?pid=169889.

The Craftsman was a relabelled Trend Routerlathe or some ancestor
thereof http://www.trendmachinery.co.uk/routerlathe/ but it appears
to have been discontinued. The manual is available for download from
Trend and they claim that they still stock all spares.

Here's a description of a big one that someone built for his own
use--no plans though
http://www.castlesimon.com/Projects/OrnamentalMill/tabid/56/Default.aspx.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0762101857 contains plans for
a shop made spiral turning jig.

Wed, Jan 31, 2007, 1:41pm: (Dave*Hall) posted what I
posted, thusly:
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:33:55 -0500, (J T)
wrote:
Mon, Jan 29, 2007, 11:52pm (Joe*Bleau) doth
sayeth:
Some years ago Sears used to market a device for turning spirals on
legs. snip

And,you then proceded to say:
I believe that the router crafter is a Vermont America device that sears
branded and sold. Might check with Vermont America to see if they still
sell them, also.

I already said I'm not interested. By picking my post to respond
to, people might now get the idea I 'am' interested. That's just
confusing.



JOAT
Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will
acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
- Johann Von Schiller

On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:34:11 -0500, (J T)
wrote:

Wed, Jan 31, 2007, 1:41pm: (Dave*Hall) posted what I
posted, thusly:
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:33:55 -0500, (J T)
wrote:
Mon, Jan 29, 2007, 11:52pm (Joe*Bleau) doth
sayeth:
Some years ago Sears used to market a device for turning spirals on
legs. snip

And,you then proceded to say:
I believe that the router crafter is a Vermont America device that sears
branded and sold. Might check with Vermont America to see if they still
sell them, also.

I already said I'm not interested. By picking my post to respond
to, people might now get the idea I 'am' interested. That's just
confusing.



JOAT
Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will
acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
- Johann Von Schiller

Sorry JOAT. I tried to post between the OP and you to show I was
responding to the OP's question as well as to your suggestion that
Sears may still be selling their rebranded version. That makes sense
to me and doesn't seem confusing from my vantage point. Your mileage
DID vary and others' MAY vary. If you get a major rush of people
sending you personal email trying to sell you a router crafter, blame
me and have the woodworking gods curse my woodworking forever,
otherwise, "quit yer bitchin'" ;-)

Dave Hall

On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:52:48 -0500, "EXT"
wrote:

Got one, never used it. A friend had one but needed space in his basement so
gave it to me. So now I just store it in case I find a need for it.


I can not find one on eBay. Interested in selling yours?

Joe

Wed, Jan 31, 2007, 4:13pm (Dave*Hall) will lament his
words:
snip have the woodworking gods curse my woodworking forever,
otherwise, "quit yer bitchin'" ;-)

You just had to give 'em ideas, didn't you? Well, you're SOL now.
Blame it on you.



JOAT
Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will
acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
- Johann Von Schiller

I've got one of these.
It was given to me by a co-worker. I've never used it. I'm not even sure
that it's all there, but if you want it contact me off the newsgroup and
we'll arrange something.

--
Charley



"Joe Bleau" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:52:48 -0500, "EXT"
wrote:

Got one, never used it. A friend had one but needed space in his basement
so
gave it to me. So now I just store it in case I find a need for it.


I can not find one on eBay. Interested in selling yours?

Joe

If you don't get something worked out here, contact me, I have one that
hasn't been used much with instructions I might part with. I hate to think
about boxing it up to ship.

Walt Conner
wconner5 at verizon dot net

Joe Bleau wrote:


I can not find one on eBay. Interested in selling yours?

Joe

You couldn't find one on eBay? There's four of them being auctioned
now. Search for "router crafter".

http://search.ebay.com/search/search...tSearch=Search

--
Jack Novak
Buffalo, NY - USA