Yes the router is mounted at 45 degrees and on a Delta Rockwell cross slide with the top slide adjusted 7 degrees off perpendicularWas your router mounted at 45 degrees?
Yes the router is mounted at 45 degrees and on a Delta Rockwell cross slide with the top slide adjusted 7 degrees off perpendicularWas your router mounted at 45 degrees?
Not a problem, I still don't know if there is a mathematical solution and even if there is the cross slide angle etchings are to crude to really know the exact setting after the trial & error process.Don,
I see that my geometry isn’t what I thought it was, sorry about that! Glad you empirically arrived at the right angle
Ron
Thanks, us old f**ts have to do something to pass the time.Good.job Don.
Perfect. I’m doing the same. I’ve found also you never get a true 90 unless router is bolted down. Harvey Fein does awesome router work. I’ve also had trouble with the 1/4 inch shanks stuck out a little too far in the collet. I only buy the 1/2 inch shafted router bits now! It is amazing when you move a router by hand how bad or far out the cut can be through movement.Yes the router is mounted at 45 degrees and on a Delta Rockwell cross slide with the top slide adjusted 7 degrees off perpendicular
Chris. It was a.vicmarc 100 chuck with the extended 1" pin jawsGreat demo tonight John, quick question, which Vicmarc chuck was that on your lathe when you were turning the finials, thanks
Here is a photo of what I'm talking about. you can see how the cutters are dipped toward the middle of the bit. This leaves an 87 degree V groove so I cut my filler blocks to 93 degrees. I tested all 3 router bits I have in that size and all have roughly the same shear angle. I even checked some of my milling cutters and they are also lowered in the middle of the bit. I will have to look at Hing mortising bits and get one and see if it cuts flat.
That is exactly my thought on the problems with having the router hand held on a wooden table.Perfect. I’m doing the same. I’ve found also you never get a true 90 unless router is bolted down. Harvey Fein does awesome router work. I’ve also had trouble with the 1/4 inch shanks stuck out a little too far in the collet. I only buy the 1/2 inch shafted router bits now! It is amazing when you move a router by hand how bad or far out the cut can be through movement.
I looked up Harvey Fein and yes he does some awesome work and the router is rigidly mounted which makes it possible to do the piercing's, just imagine how jagged those long piecering's would be using a router with only a platform mount.Perfect. I’m doing the same. I’ve found also you never get a true 90 unless router is bolted down. Harvey Fein does awesome router work. I’ve also had trouble with the 1/4 inch shanks stuck out a little too far in the collet. I only buy the 1/2 inch shafted router bits now! It is amazing when you move a router by hand how bad or far out the cut can be through movement.
Yes it is a Rockwell delta cross slide that they made in the 1960s to do light metal work on the wood lathe. The unit has 2 dovetailed slides, the first one is fixed on the Y axis that is it moves in and out perpendicular too the lathe bed and the second one is settable for any angle similar to the top slide on a metal working lathe.Don are you using a compound rest table to control the movement of the router. In your photo I only see the wooden part. If I ever get caught up on the other things I need to do I'm going to try and rig up a compound rest that has a rotary table to my lathe to control the movement of the router better. It just may be a while before I get around to that.