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Templates for routing

Postby Mike Jordan » 05 Nov 2021, 10:41

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If you spend time making a template its good sense to put on the details.
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Re: Templates for routing

Postby RogerS » 05 Nov 2021, 11:06

And also what it's for if your memory is as bad as mine.

I found a pair of spindle cutters yesterday. Custom ordered by me but blowed if I can remember what for :(
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Re: Templates for routing

Postby Mike Jordan » 05 Nov 2021, 11:35

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Re: Templates for routing

Postby Cabinetman » 05 Nov 2021, 19:43

Didn’t have the foggiest two months ago, still don’t, took a while to make with nylon bushes strange angles etc, sure it was made in the last 4 years for some Oak saddle racks but when I fetched it out to make some more racks nothing fitted. A mystery.
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Re: Templates for routing

Postby RogerS » 05 Nov 2021, 20:01

Cabinetman wrote:Didn’t have the foggiest two months ago, still don’t, took a while to make with nylon bushes strange angles etc, sure it was made in the last 4 years for some Oak saddle racks but when I fetched it out to make some more racks nothing fitted. A mystery.
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LOL...glad it's not just me!
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Re: Templates for routing

Postby Eric the Viking » 05 Nov 2021, 20:29

Cabinetman wrote:Didn’t have the foggiest two months ago, still don’t, took a while to make with nylon bushes strange angles etc, sure it was made in the last 4 years for some Oak saddle racks but when I fetched it out to make some more racks nothing fitted. A mystery.
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Nice jig, mind.

I have one somewhere. I know it's a hinge jig for door casings, and it's in helpfully slidy MFC, with instructions on it in (originally) blue marker, but I am blowed if I can remember how I intended it to work.
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Re: Templates for routing

Postby MJ80 » 05 Nov 2021, 22:22

There are a couple of bits of ply put together that in my infinate wisdom I wrote jig on. It's been kicking about for years, I have absolutely no idea what it's for so it must be really important. Everyone I see it I think mustn't loose that. Im getting to the point where the best idea is to throw it away and see how long it takes to discover and realise what it was for.
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Re: Templates for routing

Postby Mike Jordan » 06 Nov 2021, 09:51

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It's looking better now I've got rid of the ones I can't identify, but the collection still looks like an application for an arts council grant!
They all have a use with either the router or spindle moulder.
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Re: Templates for routing

Postby droogs » 06 Nov 2021, 11:23

I just got rid of around 30 jigs that after 2 years of not being able to get in the wksp I had not a clue what they were for anymore. A couple of the big ones are now being repurposed for shelves in my new wall tool cabinets. One jig actually gave me the 14 shelves I need for the new Sandpaper Till/cabinet. :shock:
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Re: Templates for routing

Postby Mike Jordan » 12 Jan 2023, 11:26

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This is just a method of further reducing the stuff hanging on the walls!
One template with different sizes of insert. It’s allowed me to dispose of two large spindle moulder templates.
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