Tim's Workshop sign

cool work, nice process too…

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Nice tool you have there

-- Dreaming patterns

I would be tempted to see how many sections i could add on. Sort of a mass production deal.

-- Every neighborhood has an eccentric neighbor. I wondered for years "who was ours?" Then I realized it was me.

so, when your buddy is done with that I’m gonna need it back. LOL. great looking sign.

-- Tim, Nevada MO

Neat tool and sign.Whats the name of the (duplicator) tool? Have never seen one.

-- Walnut,Muskies and campfires what more could you ask for. Mike

NICE JOB COOL TOOL

Hi Motoman. The duplicator is one I build for my shop. I saw a Terrco and liked the design so I scrounged all the parts and put this one together for around $175 most of which was the Dewalt 1/2”Router. I do have it set up to have two height positions and two width positions. I did buy the lettering templates from Terrco for $100. I spent a year looking for someone with a CNC machine who could cut me a set but never found a source. It saves a lot of work and is accurate for making replicas and replacement parts. I just finished copying two maple arms for a 1910 chair I’m restoring for my mom. They are curved and have curved grooves in them. I am a not a carver so this was my only hope and it worked just fine.

-- Jim Jakosh.....Practical Wood Products...........Learn something new every day!!

Who makes the original to copy from?

-- DocK, WV

That’s one nifty tool Jim.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Great project.

-- CJIII Future cabinetmaker

Hi DocK16. I have a set of 1 3/4” phenolic letter templates that I used to make the original Workshop word. Then I just put a firsts name with it and I have a personalized sign the templates are pretty shallow so the one I cut is deeper and easier to follow with the stylus.

-- Jim Jakosh.....Practical Wood Products...........Learn something new every day!!

Jim: Do you think this duplicator can work on carved chair seats? I have to build 6 chairs in the Sam Maloof style and could use help carving the seats in a close if not identical shape.

-- Zipsss

Hi Zipss. I think it could copy the contours. The only thing is that this would be done with probably a ball cutter so there would be lots of finishng work to smooth out the cuts. I once made a duplicate of a Sun face I got it in Santa Fe. It was pottery and my duplicate was cedar and was ” pock marked” from a ball cutter but I left it like that and it is cool. You could not so that with a Sam Maloof chair seat. How big is the seat? This will cut up to 17 deep- top to bottom.

-- Jim Jakosh.....Practical Wood Products...........Learn something new every day!!

Resurrecting this thread... but, worth it…

This is quite a Duplicating piece of equipment!

I can see some 20/20 extruded aluminum parts going into making one…

What kind of pipe/tube did you use for the Front to Back movement runners?

Really COOL!!

Thank you.

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Hi Joe. the runners are 1” ground rods with recirculating bearing running on them. They have very little resistance to movement. They used a lot of them on machines at Steelcase where I worked for 23 yrs. I found these in the back of the model shop- taken off a machine they tore down. I got them for scrap value. I think I paid $2.60 for the two rods and 4 bearings. They sold new then for over $50 each. The table was from employee sales ( $5). The only things that cost me any money were the Dewalt router ($135) and the letter templates ($100).

-- Jim Jakosh.....Practical Wood Products...........Learn something new every day!!