Modified "Square Checker"

[niki]

Good day

I made small modification to the "Square Checker"

I used 6 mm (1/4") dowels because the "Hole Saw" is drilling 6 mm at the wheel centre.
The dowels are getting into the holes so tight that I even use dowel instead of bolt to sand the wheels as you will see on the pics.

Regards
niki


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[TDHofstetter]

Nice improvement... and VERY impressive rolling mortiser!

-- Tim --


Things are bad...
Last night my fantasy girlfriend
Dumped me
For an imaginary guy...

:)

[niki]

Thank you so much Tim

The rolling mortiser was a "dream" and when I made my new router table (for a new router) I made it too. It's an "add-on" and can be made for any router table.

This router table includes also a build-in sled (8" wide), another rolling sled for finger (box) joint and I use it also as a jointer for panel glue-up (not the "normal" split fence method) and as a doweling machine....

Well, that's what happens when you have only table saw and router table....you use them for everything...

Best Regards
niki

[TDHofstetter]

You're doing a terrific job at getting around your resource limitations! Next... you'll be building a wooden jointer. :)

If (when?) you do... it won't be the first one - it's been done before. Still, I'm betting yours would be the most imaginative and versatile one out there. :)

-- Tim --


Things are bad...
Last night my fantasy girlfriend
Dumped me
For an imaginary guy...

:)

[niki]

Thank you Tim

I don't think that I have the ability and capability to build wooden jointer...

I don't have space for a jointer but I also don't need it...they plan for me 35 cubic feet (1 cubic Meter...I think that it's around 425 foot-board) for $20 and that's enough for 1 year projects.

Regards
niki

[TDHofstetter]

That's hard to beat... at that rate, it'd take a lot of years to pay for itself... especially when you factor in the electrical power it'd consume.

There's no WAY we could get someone to plane that much wood that cheaply... so you've got some local benefits we don't have available, too. :)

One of the things I like about this big ol' world... the more you learn about others, the more you come to understand that everybody, everyplace, their own unique benefits & drawbacks. We're all in pretty much the same boat, everywhere. :)

-- Tim --


Things are bad...
Last night my fantasy girlfriend
Dumped me
For an imaginary guy...

:)

[niki]

You are correct Tim

In USA you have cheap tools (I mean, prices) and very big selection of hardware and alike but the labor is expensive...

Here in Poland the tools prices are very high (Hitachi M12V costs more than $600 comparing to $120~130 in USA) not much of selection but the labor is cheap.

Another thing that I don't need is a Slider saw...I never have to buy and carry the 4' x 8' boards and cut them...I just go to the shop, give them my dimensions and the next day all the plates are delivered to my garage door cut precisely on a Slider with scoring blade.

I'm paying 50 Cents extra for each cut plate so, when I made my kitchen, (7 units down and 7 units up), I ordered around 100 plates so, it cost me another $50 but...nice cut, no dust and no need to carry the heavy 4' x 8'...I think that you would also "buy" this "arrangement"

niki

[TDHofstetter]

If that was available here... it'd change woodworking in the USA completely. Fantastic!

-- Tim --


Things are bad...
Last night my fantasy girlfriend
Dumped me
For an imaginary guy...

:)

[TDHofstetter]

I'm really intrigued by that router table / mortiser you built. Did you already to a writeup on that - did I miss it? If you didn't already do one, it certainly deserves one.

The fence - tell me if I'm wrong, but it looks like the fence pivots on the "left", and the clamped block on the "right" serves to swing it to adjust ... as to center the mortise in the workpiece?

Then the slots in the table... I'm not quite clear there. The short slot looks like it's used for a featherboard or something to hold the workpiece tight to the fence. How's that kept in the slot, and kept from sliding? Hand pressure? And what is the long slot for?

The two pieces marked "L" and "R"... those are setup stops to help line up any two or more workpieces exactly the same way, for repeatability?

-- Tim --


Things are bad...
Last night my fantasy girlfriend
Dumped me
For an imaginary guy...

:)