Compound Table (aka Etch-A-Sketch)

nuhobby · Post by **nuhobby** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 8:21 pm

Hello,

I've been playing around -- getting ready for the OPR I ordered last week. Some inspiration struck and I've got the shards of 2 model-500's assembled into a "compound table," or etch-a-sketch. One worktable is inverted/rotated and fit with a set of mitering grid-pieces over the other worktable.

This works pretty decent in hand trials; I've got the miter-slot pieces just fitted so it's almost impossible to move the top table in X- and Y-axes simultaneously. But in either axis alone, it slides just so.

I am thinking when I want to do some special routing jobs, I can put stop blocks around my top-most sliding table / "block", and go to town. Of course with the hold-down clamps and inserts I've bought, I'll be able to put my workpieces on the "block" at arbitrary orientations.

Photos attached....

Enjoy!

charlese · Post by **charlese** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 9:12 pm

Hi Chris! Very innovative!!

If you can get it to move diagonally, then maybe you could do some freehand artistic lettering or drawings. As you say - an etch-a-sketch for the OPR.