So far, for my new Pantorouter I've built the
Pantograph mechanism to hold the router
and the base that it slides back and forth on.
I still need the stock holding table
and the template holder here.
As you can see on my previous Pantorouter
here's the table and the template holder.
Here's the plan for the stock holding table.
And I've already glued some pieces together to make
pieces wide enough for the sides.
And there's the back part of it.
The corners of the table go together with these, sort of
box joints here.
And I'm gonna try to cut these on the table saw without much of a jig
using these templates.
To make it quicker to make the subsequent cuts
I made some spacers that are exactly the width of the space and the finger.
So, rather than moving my stop
I just have to put a spacer here.
And then put the block against it.
And that puts me right on the next slot.
So far it doesn't fit so I need to take about
half a millimeters off of each of those fingers using the same method.
So, that table goes on here
right around the plunge mechanism.
And, shavings often accumulate here
so I'm gonna cut out a corner here to make it easier to get them out.
Cutting out these joints with just a table saw sled worked out pretty good.
So, I figured I should also do that for the template frame that goes here.
And I've got my parts printed in one to one here
so I could use those. But rather than cut this up
I printed the joints separately
and then I was thinking these are kind of fine
because I designed these actually for my screw advance box joint jig.
So, I made some slight changes to the CAD drawing
and made these a little bit coarser. To make them a bit easier to cut.
So, here's a spacer and it's 16 millimeters.
For a finger and a space.
And rather than stack 5 of these I made
two more spacers that are 32 millimeters each
so I don't get as much cumulative error from stacking all of these.
I'm not even gonna glue the templates on the pieces of wood.
I just know that the first finger starts with 8 millimeters of material left.
So, I'm just setting that one up. And then I can cut them all.
So, I thought I was being real smart making
these parts without even putting a template on
and this part mates with this and when I tried to fit these on here
I realized, I goofed up. There's no way to mate these so that these edges end up flush
so... I had to make this part again.
And here it is made correctly this time.
I still need to cut a notch out of the bottom piece of this here
to fit around this block here.
And these pieces need to taper a little bit. And the dimensions
are up here on my drawings.
And I need to cut some slots in here for mounting a template.
And those are best cut with a slot mortiser or Pantorouter.
But, I assume you don't already have one.
So, I've marked these out already here and I'm gonna
try to drill these out as much as possible and finish them with a plunge router.
Well I certainly could have done a better job, faster with my slot mortiser but...
I gotta make sure that you can build these
things without having all of my fancy tools.
Got the mounting holes drilled and the slots all cut
So now I'm finally ready to to glue this frame together.
It's important that this frame doesn't have any twist in it.
So, I'm just leaving it lying flat while the glue dries.
I'm adding an extra piece to the top here because
I often attach templates just with clamps.
And that will give me much more room to clamp it on like so.
There's a grid of holes that need to be drilled
into the table top for mounting stock onto it.
And, I'm just gonna mark these by hand rather than gluing on a template.
And now I'm making a little clamp for the follower
so I can better test the machine.
I still have lots of odds and ends to finish on this machine but
I'm keen to try it out.