These images are temporary, designed
only for exhibiting to some friends.
Below is Charlie Belden's rendering of the table. For Charlie's
rendering of my first table extension on the X31 XYZ Mortising table, click here
My apologies for the blurring of Charlie's text at the top of the jpg.
(Charlie and I can work that out soon.)
Note
that Charlie -- with solid logic -- prefers a different set-up for the
Zero clearance inserts. His are square, mine are circular. Charlie is
much more systematic than I am. My inserts show someone making the
necessary cuts improvisationally. After seeing Charlie's take on the
inserts, if I make a refinement of the table, I may adopt the square
inserts.
Charlie's rendering eliminates the vertical fence,
but that doesn't mean that he eliminates the fence altogether. Au
contraire, both of us know that -- for safety -- the vertical fence is
absolutely necessary.
Finally, in discussions after I posted these images, we agreed
that my first XYZ mortising table designs could be altered to
incorporate the design below, that is rather than two fixtures, a
better design of the first will give you the flexibility that you see
below.
Please notice that I have an after-market collet on the arbor. The
collet that Laguna supplied with the X31 was not adequate. I found this
out -- sadly -- when I ruined numerous workpieces what the chuck's
jaws loosened.
The collet is half inch, and I can use several bushings for different
sized router bit shafts. However, this setup also accommodates shaper
cutters. That the X31's 3-hp is reversible makes the set-up an ideal
substitute for the difficulties encountered in the shaper portion of
the X31, which -- for me -- has a labor-intensive set-up time.
(However, I am not dismissing the potential utility of the X31 shaper,
especially its 1 1/4" spindle.)
If you have any thoughts, please get in touch. See links for
communicating on right, above.
Horizontal Shaper 1
Horizontal Shaper 2 -- half inch shank chamfer router bit in collet
Horizontal Shaper 3 -- Steps in Creating Zero-Clearance Insert -- 1st
Horizontal Shaper 4 -- Steps in Creating Zero-Clearance Insert
-- 2d
Horizontal Shaper 5 -- Steps in
Creating Zero-Clearance Insert -- 3rd
Horizontal Shaper 6 -- Steps in
Creating Zero-Clearance Insert -- 4th
Horizontal Shaper 7 -- Steps in Creating Zero-Clearance Insert
-- 5th
Shop-Made Router/ Shaper 8-- Steps in
Creating Zero-Clearance Insert -- 6th
In this example, the system of creating replaceable/interchangeable
zero-clearance inserts in the straight fence on my shop-made
router table. Unlike the horizontal shaper setup illustrated above,
where the table height is adjustable -- allowing for the creation
of tailor-made profiles -- the profiles on thes inserts need to be cut
out on a bandsaw.
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