Thank you, great explanation.
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Thank you, great explanation.
Yes, one semester from 20 years ago. Pretty sure that's obvious whenever I post my own projects.Quote:
Originally Posted by crays
Good explanation and picture sequence.
Thanks!
I've done just enough wood-working to generate more questions than answers.
I was one of the first fans of the videos by Time-Life and Norm Abram on The New Yankee Workshop - he sure demonstrated the use of Routers.
Yep. Norm gave me my first taste of router-lust, many years ago.
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Skipped work and played hard in the garage last night and most of today. Made enough progress to be at the point where I can start showing what I am up to, and more importantly kill time waiting for the Danish Oil to dry. This stuff I did a couple days ago.
Cut some base blanks out of Walnut and hard Maple, and a sacrificial blank out of some cheap pine.
https://www.johnnyego.com/wood/2019P...magstand03.JPG
Routed a shallow 3/4" groove in the blanks to accept some inlay. Once the glue dried, through the planer it went to make the surface smooth.
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Next, I took a whole bunch of measurements of a 1911 magazine and started cutting some blank stock to the width and thickness of the mag:
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Into the planer they went to get to the exact size I wanted:
https://www.johnnyego.com/wood/2019P...magstand07.JPG
I thought the maple blanks might be a little too short for the planer. It let me know I was correct. Into the scrap bucket these went, and back to the table saw I went to cut some longer stock.
https://www.johnnyego.com/wood/2019P...magstand08.JPG
This was better:
https://www.johnnyego.com/wood/2019P...magstand09.JPG
Then over to the router table, with a quarter inch round-over installed to profile the front edges and ease the back edges:
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Used a super-advanced jig to set a 15 degree angle on my table saw:
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And thus endeth the day:
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Are you making a 1911 mag vending machine?!
For beavers.
I got a few hours in the evening and spent them turning a bunch of wide boards into thin ones and sawdust:
https://www.johnnyego.com/wood/2019P...magstand27.JPG
Then I started gluing a bunch of those thin boards into a simple laminate for an inlay. Once the glue dried, I split the laminate on the tablesaw:
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Split some maple stock for some thin boards, then routed an inlay groove:
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Then glue and weight. And wait.
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Dialed the planer down to an eighth of an inch and fed them through.
https://www.johnnyego.com/wood/2019P...magstand41.JPG
And then there was more gluing and clamping.
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Finished up the magazine blanks by making a simple jig to route the magazine catch groove with a 1/8 spiral bit:
https://www.johnnyego.com/wood/2019P...magstand44.JPG
"Norm gave me my first taste of router-lust....."
Repent, repent! Thou art a router slut! And a 1911 slut. And a wood-working slut.
OK, everyone, grab a six-pack and let's all meet at Johnny-Ego's for a weekend of lusty wood working, gun talk, and tall tales!
And a few more before I go to bed:
Grabbed a couple of pieces of that cut stock from yesterday for the sides to an additional component of the project:
https://www.johnnyego.com/wood/2019P...magstand42.JPG
And routed some 1/8" stopped grooves into them at the router table:
https://www.johnnyego.com/wood/2019P...magstand43.JPG
Followed by a change to a 1/8" round-over and some tediousness.
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Squared off the grooves with a 1/8" chisel:
https://www.johnnyego.com/wood/2019P...magstand49.JPG
Also, couldn't think of a better way of doing the slide lock notch, so I grit my teeth and chiselled it in, too.
https://www.johnnyego.com/wood/2019P...magstand28.JPG
A giant pile of small parts to be hand-sanded:
https://www.johnnyego.com/wood/2019P...magstand48.JPG
And waiting for it all to dry.
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Tell me about that table saw crosscut sled. DIY or bought?