Sorry Dom, missed those last posts for some reason.
Progress on the Cutaway (& the non cutaway twin)......slow....as usual
Yeah, I finally made the binding router jig.
Used 4 of those ball bearing draw slides as the runners.
Used a plastic chopping block to make a new baseplate & donut.
Located the drawer runners so that their "friction stops" stop the router before it smacks into the table (umm, I think that was intentional
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I hate routers, but I have to admit I've never had better results before.
The channels were clean & crisp with no tearout at all.
The only problem was - I didn't think about doing the cutaway so the jig body is too wide to fit.
Wiil need to add a block behind the router to project it out & away from the jig body, but in the mean time I just did the cutaway channels by hand.
Was woken at 5.30 this morning by chainsaws and trucks reving & reversing (beep, beep, beep, beep).
Blearily wandered outside to find a crew removing a large gum from the streetside next to our house.
They were using a mobile crane to lift large sections of the tree onto the street for further processing.
I watched as the last 5m of dead straight trunk was loaded onto a truck for removal.
Ran to the workshop, grabbed a guitar body, back to the street & using sign language & such, indicated that I would like to rescue any nice timbers they cut down in future from being chipped & turn them into instruments.
Turns out the guy I stopped was the boss, owner of a mill, & said he has 60 logs currently ready for processing if I want to come & have a look. I even heard the word 'mahogany' at one point
Made a date for Saturday morning!
Then went back to bed
Have you used it yet and how did you go? Did you make a donut to ride on the top and an adjustable stop to prevent it drilling a hole on your table if it slips off the top? Hard to see from the picture.