Clamping System

[rjpackwin]

Replaced my spoil board with a piece of 3/4" phenolic plywood. Added Kreg mini trak. Trak's are screwed and glued with two part epoxy.
Using a 1/4" end mill, held in the router collet, a hole pattern was added to the phenolic top. Holes are only 5/8" deep to keep sawdust from leaking through. Roll pins can be placed in the holes and the work piece can be located parallel to the x or y axis.

Clamp system designed to work with my biscuit cutter. Aluminum fingers mounted to Oak clamps are designed to work in a slot cut by a biscuit cutter. Biscuits can also be used to keep the aluminum fingers further away from the work piece. This works well if your cutting a profile close to the edge of the work piece.

Clamping work to the table is now a piece of cake ... or a piece of biscuit!


Ray

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Picture with Biscuit & Clamp

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Clamp without Biscuit

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Clamps in place holding work piece .... using a 1/8" spoil board below to allow for cutting out finished piece.

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Two roll pins in place allow for the work piece to be bumped up against "hard" stop and then clamped into place.

Cutting out a simple project -- a curly maple cutting board. A vintage "Pig" cutting board like the one most of our grandmother's used.

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[rjpackwin]

Using the "tab" option in Aspire allows for the entire pattern to be cut without having the work piece break free and pinch the cutter.

Let me know if you have any questions .... this is simple clamping solution. Phenolic plywood was about $85 for a 48" x 48" x 3/4" piece. Kreg mini trak's are about $15 per track.

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[3fingersshort]

Hey that looks great, I'll have to try that. So far I've just been countersinking drywall screws into the spoilboard to hold my work- not very sophisticated but hey... ;D
I just noticed you have two clamps holding your router. Did you find that rigidified things? ( thats a word I'm going to patent)
Cheers.

[rjpackwin]

2nd Router clamp ..... yes, adding the second clamp eliminated most all of the router shake, except sometimes in a "climbing" cut when I get a little greedy with my time and I take to deep of a cut in a single pass.

[georgemyers]

Nice setup, I like the way you did your clamp downs.

[rjpackwin]

Thanks George .... if someone else can use the idea that's great.

Ray