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Folds Up for Compact Storage
Fence Doubles as Handle
Accurate Miter Gauge Track
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Router Mounting Plates
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Lumber Cart
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Socket Set Boxes. Custom Fit Dadoes
Donald
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EDITOR
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SENIOR ILLUSTRATORS
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ver the years, we've built a to one side of the box
At
the same time,
number of differenttools for our
he
reached into a hole in front of the
shop. But the one that gets used most box, opened a door, and swung it under-
often is the router table that was fea- neaththe wing.
turdin the very
first
issue of
ShopNotes.
&r repeating the process on the
That's a long time ago (over seven
other side, onething became clear. Tnis
years).
So
why bring it upnow?It has to
was no small router table.
In
fact,
the
do with a conversation
I
had recently
table had a "wingspan"that appeared to
with
a friend of mine.
be
a
yard long. (Okay, it was only
32"
He stopped by the shop recently
long.) Even so, that's still
2"
longer
than
while I was using the router table to
our original router table.
make some strips of molding. And he
I have to admit, the table is impres
mentioned that he'd always admired its
sive. Its a bee&, 1"-thick slab that
pro-
large table top and adjustablefence.
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But what surprised me is that he had
look at the photo of the extended table
never actually builtthe router table.
vides a rock-solid worksurface. me
on the back cover.)
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The base cabmetitwasmount~d
FENCE.
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was
also
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tc
curious about the fence.
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much room in his shop.
it doubled as a
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(Sound familiar?)
handle, it was
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how it compared
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to thinking. Why
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that didn't take up
with my old fence.
any
floor space.
(Exit fence had
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What I
had
in
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spoiledmejust a bit)
mind was a small router
didn't take long to kd
lhefence isthesame thickness
(1'3
itwould
still
incorporate
all
the features
as
the table, so it has a nice, solid feel. It
of our M-sized router table.
In
other slides smoothly across the table. And a
words,
a
small
router table that could simple, built-in clamplocksit in place.
handle large jobs.
Just one more
fhing
about the fence,
It
sounded like an interesting chal. and then
Ill
stop. To change the size of
lenge. And we kicked the idea around the opening around the router bit, there
with
Ken (our project dweloper). The
are two faces in the fencethat slide back
morewe talked,themore excitedwe got
and forth.Moving thesefaces as closeto
about
it
So
we decided to build
a
proto- the bit
as
possible prevents a workpiece
Qpe
ofthe new router tabIe.
from tipping into the opening.
Not long &r that, Ken showed up
DEWXI?
VERSION.
As you
can
see,
carrying
a small, compact box that I'm excited about our new router table.
looked like a plywood suitcase, see We even built a delwe version. It uses
photo above. "What do you tbink?" he the same basic design, but it has several
asked as he set the box down. additional features that make it even
Then,
witb
agleam in his eye, he pro more versatile. @or more about this
ceeded to raise a
'%haring"
thatwas hinged deluxe router table, refer
to
page
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Contents
Features
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Socket Set Storage Boxes
6
Keep the tools in your socket sets organized with these
handy storage boxes. You can customize each box to suit
your needs. There'seven a case to hold the boxes.
Soc iet Boxes
Custom Fit Dadoes
10
Two s~mplemethods to cut an accurate, t~ght-ffttlngdado
lo~nt
-
w~thoutuang a dado blade
Lumber Cart
12
This shop-built cart provides plenty of storage for scrap
pieces of wood and sheet materials. Plus, the top of the
cart doubles as a convenient worksurface.
I
adoes
10
a
Benchtop Router Table
16
Take a close look at th~sspace-saving router table It
features a large table, an adlustable fence, and three
different accessones Yet ~tfolds up into a compact box
Mounting Plates
28
Building a router table? To make it easy to change bits,
attach your router to a removable mounting plate. We offer
some practical suggestions on which one to buy.
Dovetail Jigs
30
You can rout professional-look~ngdovetail joints every
t/mewith these two commercial dovetailjigs.
Departments
Readers' Tips
4
Our readers offer thelr own shop-tested tips deal~ng
with some of the most common woodwork~ngproblems.
~ources
31
Hardware, project supplies, and mail order sources for the
projects in this issue.
No.
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ShopNotes
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Edge-Gluing
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When edge gluing a solid wood
(1%" x
38"-
IW-~ICK
HARDWOOD)
panel, the boards always seem to
shift up or down.
So I
often end up
with a small "step" at the joint line.
To create a flat panel,
I
clamp
pressure
ban
across the boards, see
photo. The pressure bars are
squeezed together by tightening
wing
nuts on the carriage bolts that
extend through the bars.
so
I
used 13/4"-square stock, see
drawing. Mine are cut long enough
to accept panels up to
36"
wide.
A
few extra holes along one end
allow me to move the bolts closer
together when gluing narrow
panels.
And each
hole
is
counter-
bored so the bars can sit flat on my
workbench or the shop floor.
Before using the pressure bars,
you'll want to apply a coat of paste
wax to their inside faces. This pre
vents them from getting perma-
nently glued to the boards.
a
John Lynch
Boston, Masylchmetts
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The bars need to be pretty stiff,
Quick-Release Featherboard
I often use a magnetic
m--
featherboard when I'm rip
DEEP
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magnet grips Pretty tighuY.
%".
ping stock on the table saw.
HOLE
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AS
YOU
might expect, the
HARDWOOD)
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So
itsnot an easy task to lift
the featherboard off the
MAGNETIC
FEArnERsoARDJ-
way to remove the feather-
-
board.
All
thafs needed isa
hardwood
disk
to use
as
a "cam", see
photo. To create a
her
for the
cam,
I
simply glued a
dowel
into the edge of
the disk, see drawing.
The cam pivots on a short
screw.
But the
mew
isn't located in the
center of the
disk
Instead, itsoffset
slightly, see Side -ew. Itsthis offset
that makes the
cam
work
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When you want to remove the
featherboard, just pivot the disk
about a quarterof a turn. Thatrotates
the disk
below
the bottom edge of the
featherboard, see photo.
This
raises
the featherboard and breaks the
magnets grip on the saw table.
Bob Wickstrom
Ouedand
Park, Kansas
No. 45
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PRESSUREBAR
(28t
DIA,
saw table.
But
I
recently came up
with an ahnost effortless
A
When
Alan
Smith of Utica,
NY
A
To reduce vibration in her scroll
A
To make an inexpensive 'jDuII" for
uses a rasp, he slips a rubber saw
Martha Dawson
of Squaw a small shop drawec
John
Hershey
finger guard on the end to protect Valle~:CA cuts pieces from an old of Mena, AR simply cuts a slot with a
his fingers from the sharp teeth.
mouse pad to put under the saw. plate joiner andglues in a biscuit
Repairing Tenons
Chairs get lots of tough use, so
it's not uncommon to see spindles
and rungs with broken tenons, see
drawing. Rather than try to salvage
a badly broken one,
I
often kdit
tenon, see detail 'a,' After drilling a
hole in the end and gluing in a
dowel, I just
trim
the "tenon" to
length, see detail 'b.'
--I
WW"
Kevin Boyle
Des Moines, Iowa
Fitting
Dovetails
d
When cutting dovetails,
I
like To make it easier to fit the pieces Then sand the
inside
face of the
my initial fit to be a bit tight It's together, chisel a chamfer on the pins until they fit into the tails just
always easier to relieve a tight joint
inside
of each tail, see photo at left. right, see photo at right.
than
trv
to deal with a loose one.To You'll want to start the chamfers
A1 Woods
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,justshort of the end, otherwisethey
"fine &e" a joint that's tog
Sun Jose, California
use a couple of tricks.
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shovwhen you join the pieces.
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