Norm Dresner wrote:
The problem: Creating, for example, angled dados and rabbets or other
decorative grooves, with the router.

http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/Projects/JBot/

(second photo from bottom) and also something like

http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/Projects/Bevel/

Easy! :-]

--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/

On Feb 15, 3:29 pm, Morris Dovey wrote:
Norm Dresner wrote:
The problem: Creating, for example, angled dados and rabbets or other
decorative grooves, with the router.

http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/Projects/JBot/

(second photo from bottom) and also something like

http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/Projects/Bevel/

Easy! :-]

Eat your heart out, Morris

http://www.krtwood.com/disher.html

I'll trade you, straight up

For the OP: You can do a lot with the right jig, but usually they need
to be special made for the task. Might be some ideas there for you.
I would highly not recommend the t-nut knobs though

-Kevin

Kevin wrote:
On Feb 15, 3:29 pm, Morris Dovey wrote:
Norm Dresner wrote:
The problem: Creating, for example, angled dados and rabbets or other
decorative grooves, with the router.
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/Projects/JBot/

(second photo from bottom) and also something like

http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/Projects/Bevel/

Easy! :-]

Eat your heart out, Morris

http://www.krtwood.com/disher.html

That's pretty cool!

I'll trade you, straight up

Well, it's not /that/ cool - and I suspect that you'd have altogether
/too/ much fun with a shop-built CNC machine.

For the OP: You can do a lot with the right jig, but usually they need
to be special made for the task. Might be some ideas there for you.
I would highly not recommend the t-nut knobs though

I found it interesting that Kevin and I both used the same inexpensive
trim router.

I think the trick is to dispense with the factory base and build one of
your own to hold the router at an angle while you guide it (perhaps
against a fence clamped to the workpiece) by hand.

--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/

On Feb 15, 10:59 pm, Morris Dovey wrote:

Well, it's not /that/ cool - and I suspect that you'd have altogether
/too/ much fun with a shop-built CNC machine.

I'm definitely intrigued with the possibilities. Though at the same
time I like to make things up as I go along, I think involving a CNC
would require more forethought and planning than how I like to work.

I found it interesting that Kevin and I both used the same inexpensive
trim router.

Not only is it inexpensive, but it includes the most wonderful aroma.
You just can't put a price on that, it nearly brought tears to my
eyes.


-Kevin

wrote:
On Feb 15, 10:59 pm, Morris Dovey wrote:

Well, it's not /that/ cool - and I suspect that you'd have altogether
/too/ much fun with a shop-built CNC machine.

I'm definitely intrigued with the possibilities. Though at the same
time I like to make things up as I go along, I think involving a CNC
would require more forethought and planning than how I like to work.

It does that - I enjoy producing the concept and imagining how something
can be made, and I (usually) enjoy the thing made - but as time passes
I'm coming to enjoy the making part less and less.

'Twas fun, tho, to mull through the geometry of cutting your bowl in a
single spiral pass with a round-nosed bit...

I found it interesting that Kevin and I both used the same inexpensive
trim router.

Not only is it inexpensive, but it includes the most wonderful aroma.
You just can't put a price on that, it nearly brought tears to my
eyes.

LOL They were on sale for $19.95 when I went for mine. I figured that at
that price I'd buy a second for when the first died...

....and thereby assured that the first will outlast me. The upside to the
CNC is that I don't have to get up close and personal with the the thing
- from 5 or 10 feet upwind it doesn't smell at all.

--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/