Compound Table (aka Etch-A-Sketch)
Posted: 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!
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!
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.