| Project by Wingstress | posted 293 days ago | 1667 views | 19 times favorited | 5 comments |  |
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I was at a woodworking show in Springfield Ma a couple weeks ago and there was a guy from woodline who was trying to sell a box cutting joint made out of delrin. It seemed really simple. It was basically just a square dowel sticking out of a flat plate. So I went to home depot and bought a .25-inch hardwood square dowel for 77 cents and then put a dado in a piece of scrape plywood and then glued the dowel in place. I then made a push block out of plywood and a 2X4. I used a bronze gauge block to set the groove width and started cutting. It turned out to work pretty well. I had to put a bunch of screw down knobs to hold it down because the plywood had a slight bow that affected the depth of cut measurement. After a few knobs, it laid nice and flat.
-- Tom, Simsbury, CT
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FlWoodRat
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posted 293 days ago
Wing, nice looking jig. Thanks for posting it. I’m going to ‘favorite’ this one so that I can build one for my router table.. LOL, after I get that done. It’s on the list too.
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HallTree
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posted 292 days ago
Nice job. I suppose you could make it to adapt to other bit sizes?
-- Ron in Osseo, Minnesota
croquetman
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posted 196 days ago
I don’t see the sense in the dowel being so long. Is there a reason why this is designed that way?
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Wingstress
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posted 195 days ago
Croquetman,
No reason really. It just made it really easy to make. One groove down a piece of plywood and then a square dowel bought at Home Depot. Its nice having it long on the back side so you can move the fence back far enough to clear chips while keeping alignment. I guess, it allows you to have virtually limitless thickness of wood as well, but I’ve never cut thick stock with it…
-- Tom, Simsbury, CT
Derby
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posted 169 days ago
Great idea! I wonder if I can adapt it for use with my router, mounted under a cast iron TS extension wing. Maybe I can use the clamp bar from one of those plastic featherboards and the miter slot???
-- "Lumber is just sawdust in 'solid' form!"