I made a bunch of Joints!

[Irving]

Thank you, great explanation.

[Irving]

Didn't you say you took wood shop class in high school? Just sayin'...

Yes, one semester from 20 years ago. Pretty sure that's obvious whenever I post my own projects.

[BladesNBarrels]

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.

[JohnnyEgo]

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.


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.



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:



Into the planer they went to get to the exact size I wanted:


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.


This was better:



Then over to the router table, with a quarter inch round-over installed to profile the front edges and ease the back edges:



Used a super-advanced jig to set a 15 degree angle on my table saw:



And thus endeth the day:

[Irving]

Are you making a 1911 mag vending machine?!

[JohnnyEgo]

For beavers.

[JohnnyEgo]

I got a few hours in the evening and spent them turning a bunch of wide boards into thin ones and sawdust:


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:



Split some maple stock for some thin boards, then routed an inlay groove:




Then glue and weight. And wait.




Dialed the planer down to an eighth of an inch and fed them through.


And then there was more gluing and clamping.


Finished up the magazine blanks by making a simple jig to route the magazine catch groove with a 1/8 spiral bit:

[Duman]

"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!

[JohnnyEgo]

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:


And routed some 1/8" stopped grooves into them at the router table:


Followed by a change to a 1/8" round-over and some tediousness.



Squared off the grooves with a 1/8" chisel:


Also, couldn't think of a better way of doing the slide lock notch, so I grit my teeth and chiselled it in, too.


A giant pile of small parts to be hand-sanded:


And waiting for it all to dry.

[brutal]

Tell me about that table saw crosscut sled. DIY or bought?