stanley router advice needed

Re: stanley router advice needed

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>OK, but I thought you owned the St. James model, and thus were strongly recommending it. Didn't you post a bunch about this router a couple of years ago on BP?

Pam

Re: As used in hinge mortising

Matti Kuikka

>I'd think it's easiest to use just chisel(s). Of course I haven't yet made me a router plane so this isn't a reliable opinion.

BTW as it looks like you haven't made a "mushroom" above the hoop in your chisel I'm interested in your reasoning.

Matti

Re: As used in hinge mortising

Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)

>Matti

You are correct about the hoop on the chisel. The simple answer is that the pics were taken about 2 years ago, and at that time I did not see the need for resetting a firm hoop. I do now, and all my Japanese chisels are set in the traditional way.

With regards using a chisel instead, well I have done so for years too. But the advantage of clearing the waste with a router plane is that you obtain a flat and even mortise, which makes it easier to get a good fit.

Regards from Perth

Derek

Re: As used in hinge mortising

Jack Guzman from Maine

>I find it ideal for cleaning the bottom of stopped dadoes and sliding dovetails where other tools won't work as well.It is handy for hinge mortises but other tools work as well.I find I use mine alot more than I ever expected to.I have a 71 and a 271 and plan on making a couple more for special purpose.Of course ,that may have alot to do with the fact that I like making tools just for the making of them.I can't wait to see the Veritas version.---Jack

Re: As used in hinge mortising

paul womack

>huon pine

Nice drive by!

Info on Hunon pine

BugBear

Thanks for the pictures

Jim Reed @ Tallahassee

>I use my router from the side at an angle and skew it across the grain. Cut from outside edge to interior.

Re: Happy Canada Day

Jeremy Osner

>Enjoy the weekend

Re: As used in hinge mortising *LINK*

Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)

>Bugbear

Trust you to notice!

The finished article is the wardrobe in the set of pictures in the link below (raised panels are Jarrah)

Regards from Perth

Derek


huon pine wardrobe

Re: Thanks for the pictures

Patrick Gibbons, Houston

>I use a 271 a lot for hinges. I don't worry much about with or across the grain except for the final passes which are against the grain. I also use my routers for tenon cheeks and the bottoms of blind mortises.

Re: stanley router advice needed

paul womack

>OK, but I thought you owned the St. James model, and thus were strongly recommending it.

It's a fun thing. If you just want to get some routing done, some scrap wood and a carefuly ground allen key (hex key in USA, I think) will get you by.

http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle/woodworking/jigs.phtml

But not all people choose tools on a pure function/cost evaluation.

BugBear

Re: stanley router advice needed

William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>The one I built from a kit is not the one shown in their ad in FWW. It was fun to build, it works as well as a #271, and some would call my implementation "eye candy." However, I could not recommend either one "across the board" to anyone in need of a router, due to the initial cost and the number of hours it took me to complete it. For those who want to build their own tools, this would be a good introduction, and a lot less complicated than a Shepherd or SJBTC infill plane kit, for example.

A much better deal for a tool user is to buy an old Stanley #71 from an old tool dealer. For example, not a gloatable example, I bought a #71 from the MofA this spring for somewhere around $80. This is a larger, more robust and more flexible tool than the ANDY.

This is the SJBTC ANDY kit:

This is what I built from it:

Re: stanley router advice needed

Jack Guzman from Maine

>Actually I think the most common US term for it is "allen wrench" It is called a "hex key" too though.---Jack

Re: stanley router advice needed

Jack Guzman from Maine

>William,that thing is so cute I'm thinking I may want to build one.Looks like a handy size too. Do you find it useful? BTW what's the "ANDY" about?---Jack

Re: stanley router advice needed

William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>Yes, I find it useful, especially for small hinge mortises and the like, where balancing a larger router on the side or edge of a small box or door would be precarious, at least.

The ANDY was probably the name of the patternmaker who made the original, from which SJBTC made lost wax castings. In a pattern shop, these things were of course very useful, and very easy to make with the tools and supplies at hand. If someone made one or several, they wouldn't want their personal one to wander off.

SGFH?

Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida

>Sorority Girls From Hell?

Re: SGFH?

Joe Rogers, Northern Virginia

>Nope...Support Group Form Hell. See Tom Price's Galoots Progress site for more information. (I think we all belong:-) )

http://homepage.mac.com/galoot_9/galtprog.html

Neat site.JR

Re: stanley router advice needed

Alan Hamilton

>Sir William,

You mean an English major would have a sesquipedalian name for it?

(N.B., I was NOT an English major!)

Alan

Re: stanley router advice needed

William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>No, I just meant that there is something out there that I don't know the answer to :^) In this particular case, I even received a very good suggestion via e-mail, but I find that my (cheap) dictionary and his dictionary cannot even agree on this definition.

My degree is in Computer Science, where ones and zeros, at least, have very specific definitions. However, if you apply Moore's Law, I now have 2 ^-20 of a degree.

Forty-two