Pendulum Router Jig

Like the jig described above its attached to the routers sub base.

Pendulum router jig. If you can think and make jigs you will be in routing fast lane. In the past what are now usually called scroll saws were often referred to as jigsaws. The holes should be as far apart as the diameter of the routers base. A jigsaw power tool is a jigsaw made up of an electric motor and a reciprocating saw blade.

From dado jigs mortise jigs tenon jigs on down to sleds that turn your router into a planer this collection of free router jigs puts your router into overdrive. A few years back i had imagined a dual axis pendulum setup for my router. Not all that effective on hardwoods. To use this jig do any layout work then slide the jig into position always aligning the jig to the left of the work area because the normal operation of a router pushes the tool to the left if the jig were set to the right of the work area it would be a struggle to hold the router firmly against the jig in use.

I came up with a dual axis pendulum jig for the router to cut out concave portion of a spoon. As part of an online challenge utensil2015 we were tasked to make some sort of kitchen utensil. Here is the video documents the jig build as well as a test spoon. As most jigsaw blades cut on the upward stroke of a jigsaws oscillating action the pendulum action ensures the blade is pressed firmly up against the material on this stroke increasing cutting efficiency.

I have been wanting to make a router jig capable of dishing out wood spoons for a couple years and it was perfect timing for me to make my contraption. Make a router planing jig. The second jig for cutting curves and circles with a router can be made from scraps that are around the workshop. Here jeremy broun explores what he dubbed the most versatile tool in the world.

Pendulum action also known as orbital action is a setting on some jigsaws that swings the blade forward and backward slightly as the blade travels up and down. Routers remain one of the most versatile power tools in the shop and yours just got 46 times more versatile with this massive collection of free router jig plans. Drill holes the same size as the dowels into one long edge of the 12 x 1x4 wood block. Jigsaws with sole plates that have a beveling function can cut angles typically up to 45 degrees relative to the normal vertical stroke to make miter joints.

No planerthicknesser or maybe its not wide enough. If you have a router then this router planing jig might be right up your streeti built mine as an improvement over what ive used in the past to plane wide planks for waterfall tables.