Re: SJBTC Andy Kit *PICS*
William R. Duffield, on the Cohansey
>This is what I got from Saint James Bay Tool Company, a few years ago, for $45. It is a lost wax casting, in bronze, of a small router made by a patternmaker. He also sells a blade clamp screw and cutters. They are extra.
From this casting, I built this. You have to turn or find your own handles and the flat head machine screws to mount them.
As you can see from context, this is much smaller than a #71.
I turned these handles from cocobolo. Knobs from Lie-Nielsen's #98 and #99 side rabbet planes, in cherry or rosewood, also fit.
You will have to drill and tap three screw holes, and cut the machine screws to length.
The blade also mounts outboard, for working up against an inside wall. I ground my cutter from a hardened concrete nail. I also found a brass clamp screw.
I had to do quite a bit of work to get the bottom flat. The two unfilled screw holes are for attaching a wooden bottom plate, so you can span a wider recess. Adding a bottom plate would also allow you to construct and attach a movable fence.
