$5 Incremental Fence

Steve: A great design. Nice looking positioner.

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Wow – nicely done Steve – very clean design. Maybe add a little piece of Plexiglass on front of the top cover for a hairline indicator? You could also pick up a set of Incra templates if you get into the joinery thing…...

-- Jeff - I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

As always your mind is always coming up with something cool. Great build! I take one when the kinks are worked out LOL Hope all is well.

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Nice job Steve!!
Just a thought on the slippery part—have you thought about using UHMW for the positioner arm?
You can get 3/4” x 4” x 48” fairly cheap on Amazon—just a thought

-- Jeff - Bell Buckle, TN

Thanks guys. I have a piece of UHMW, but I don’t want it to be so slippery as to not lock in place. Hence the tape only on the top and bottom, and not the sides. But i can talk myself in circles on this, it’s driving me batty.

I was really concerned about the pressure being strong enough, so I even have a different pressure plate with rubber erasers sandwiched in the middle to absorb the pressure. It seemed too excessive, and the clamp seems to work as a lock on its own.

Steve

-- -- I'm no rocket surgeon

You did it again Steve this is awsome. I just droped some coins for a new Incra positioner for my router table. But I have got to try making one of these bad boys for my TS as soon as my current project is completed. how do you like the new lift you got?

-- Billp

Wow thats the fence i have dreamt about for my router table. It works just like a click rule the device I use to measure because i am mostly blind.

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That´s cool Steve, and indeed it looks pretty good.
Other than the clamp, is mdf made?.

-- Back home. Fernando

Rad :)

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Steve, that is a wonderful thing-a-ma-jig. Make that yet another wonderful one. Your mind is a fine place and I admire your work. That said I’m not able to figure out how any of these precision jigs could help me do anything that I can’t do now. That’s not a criticism, just an observation. At any rate, I can appreciate the ingenuity and workmanship.

Well done.

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Sure looks good, Steve…

I don’t understand the value of that folding clamp in the middle of it… What does it do?

Thank you…

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It’s quite an engineering feat Steve. It’s like Incra jig meets Woodgears. To lock it you could always mount a lever type hold down clamp to press on the top plate or drill a hole to allow the clamp to press directly on to the slider, still I really like it it’s got a lot of good features…..Look out incra!
Best
Trevor

-- God created wood that we may create. Trevor East Yorkshire UK

Thanks again everyone. Still a work in progress. I laid in bed last night thinking of improvements.

JL7: As far as the Plexiglas hair line indicator, yes one would be great. If you google ‘Bar Magnifier’ you will see what my brain is thinking.

Billp: I have the new router lift, but am chicken to route the recess to mount it. Why don’t they make it easier to do that? Those 1.5 inch radius corners are a bugger.

Paul: True, this type of positioner is not needed for lots of routing and that is why I want it removable. I will just use my TS fence for those. But like Incra, it really does have it’s advantages for certain types of operations. Things like being able to come back a week later and precisely put the fence where it was last time. And also operations that use a precise increment like stepping over for multiple dados or dovetails.

Joe: The folding clamp locks the bar in place by pressing the small threaded rod against the long threaded rod. The concept is to make it click into one of the 1/32 inch threads, thus creating a know position.

Trevor: I actually have tried several different clamping techniques. Using a standard red handle locking clamp through a hole in the top was one of them, but that does not force the two rods together, so I nixed it. The main problem is to make the rods disappear and slide easy when you don’t want them, and make them proud and locked when you do want them. But please, keep the ideas comming.

I am now thinking that having the locking plate running in its own little miter slot (like a crosscut sled) will keep it in place better. Not allowing this plate to wiggle seems key to me.

Steve

-- -- I'm no rocket surgeon

You know, that’s pretty nice work, coming from a guy that’s not a rocket surgeon.

Really great job, Steve.

Lee

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Excellent work, as always, Steve. You have made some serious progress here.

Unfortunately version 2.0 of my circle cutting jig is all but finished. It uses a traditional approach to micro-adjust with a single threaded rod and captive nut. Perhaps I could adapt the double thread method for version 3.0.

Must have taken some serious time to plan this fence and flawless craftsmanship too. Always a pleasure to see one of your projects. Please keep them coming.

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