Creating Router Support: first use of D4R Leigh jig with VRS

Looks like you’re gettin’er done. Like anything, trial and error is essential. Don’t rush it. Fine video coverage as well.

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Hi Barry,

I have been looking at one of these for some time now so your video was very helpful. By the way you produced a nice video too. It was a good demonstration of the jig.

Keep practicing.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

Barry,

GREAT going! Sometimes it appears the Leigh jig is cumbersome. But, all of a sudden, it will hit home, and you will tell yourself “Man, it IS easier than I thought at first!!!” Keep going, and you WILL soon get it perfectly.

If you wish to view something you WILL be able to make soon, and you have a little time, look at my blog post about inlaid dovetails. I merged Parts 1 & 2 to submit to FineWoodworking's GlueTube video blog some time ago.

Enjoy!

-- Al Navas, St Joseph, MO, http://sandal-woodsblog.com

Great job Barry. I use my jig so infrequently that I have to ready the directions every time I use it.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

First I thought I heard a Johann Hummel trumpet concerto, then some Pytor Tchaikovsky, starts innocently enough, but then you’re on to Sergy Prokofiev , or Borodin, or Rimsky-korsokov, oh, where will it end?? ( Ok, I’m an addict myself)

Great Barry. I need a training class every time I bring it out of it’s chest.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Barry,

I came back to re-read your comments about the tails and pins being a little long. You said: ”...and how the pins and tails are created…mine were long on both accounts.”

You always want both tails and pins to be just slightly long (i.e., proud of the sides), to make sure you can trim them to be perfectly flush with the sides of the box. Normally, a quick sanding is all it takes to get them truly close; then you use either a block plane, or a card scraper to get them perfectly flush.

The alternative, if they turn out too short, is a LOT more sanding required, as THEN you must sand the entire surface of each side – not what you want to do. In this process you might take the box out of square, which might become noticeable to the naked eye.

I wish you great success with dovetails. My next project will be with half-blind dovetails. I will publish this as a video on my blog.

-- Al Navas, St Joseph, MO, http://sandal-woodsblog.com

I’ve got the 24 Super with the VRS, and I stand over the router and look down at the far side of the pins to figure out where I should be routing. It’s cured me of a very bad habit of trying to see under the router (exactly the wrong place for your face to be in case of catastrophic bit failure) with my old dovetail jig.

I too am playing with just how deep to set the plunge depth with different woods, but I’m finding that with Lyptus, what I’ve been cutting most of recently, I need to go a little shy of the line I draw.

Haven’t done anything with the jig but through dovetails yet, however now that I’ve done a whole bunch of ‘em, setup for that is way way easier than for the half-blind jig that this one replaced.

Al, I’ve got a wall mounted jewelry case coming up that I want to pull out all of the stops on, I’ll be watching your videos frame by frame.

-- Dan Lyke, Lagunitas California, http://www.flutterby.net/User:DanLyke

Very good Barry. I think you are off to an excellent start. Also, good job on the video, one of these days I’ll have to figure that process out as well.

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/

Good job on the video.

-- Maplewood, MN

I don’t think that they were too long, at all.
They should be slilghtly proud of the surface.

Did you remember to polish the keys? I ga-ron-tee you will get better performance.

Lee

-- No piece is cut too short. It was meant for a smaller project.