zylophile

Unionville, CT, US
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Serious woodworker since I was around 8 years old, have always enjoyed the more difficult problems in woodworking. Also created many solutions which differentiates my work from the ordinary. Enjoy designing/building jigs and fixtures which increases my equipments abilities to perform beyond it's normal parameters. Published in Fine Homebuilding several tips which seem to come to me as the difficulty of certain jobs arise. Hope to retire into designing, creating and building specialty furniture some day in the next ten years.

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Height Gauge for router and table saw

Oct 20, 2010
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Wanted to make an easy to adjust and easy to read height gauge to set my table saw height and also my router bit height above table.  With the pin point accuracy of the pointer, you can split 64...

Jig for router turning on lathe

Jul 25, 2010
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Production jig and fixturing for router turning on lathe using mounted carriage  that is  taper guided.  Router not shown on carriage in present photos.  Note:  Blanks...

Taper turned cane blank jig for table saw

Jul 25, 2010
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This simple and adjustable jig slides along the table saw fence and with selected angle (taper) will create a finished turned cane blank by running the corners of the square end four times changing...


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Re: Taper turned cane blank jig for table saw

Scott,


After reading what FineWoodworking wanted in categories for their fixture contest, I remembered that I designed and built (25 years ago) two jigs for a production cane making project. The saw fixture was quite simple and elegant and produced a blank not usually associated with a sawing technique. The router/lathe fixture was heavily engineered with lots of closely machined mechanical parts.

Since it was that long ago I did not have a simple means to video the process, but still have both ready to go for my retirement in about 10 years when I settle on internet marketed woodworking ideas.

The nature of the saw blanking fixture was to take material stock equal in thickness to the major part of the cane, strip widths of equal dimension to produce a square blank, and lock into the fixture. First pass would knock of one of the four corners and the next three passes would reduce the blank to a tapered octagon. The last step was to introduce the blank one last time to the saw blade (cabinet blade 60-100 teeth) and let the saw slowly revolve the blank to yield a somewhat roughened tapered blank ready for the lathe.

This blank would be placed into the router/lathe fixture and quickly taken down to a smooth surface for finish sealing. The cane head was to be a collection of different shapes/woods/textures/metals to adorn the cane depending of customer request. I have other fixtures and will put more up at my webpage www.carlicustomdesign.com when they come.

Bob Carli

posted: 10:02 pm on August 1st