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Thread: New Guy, Retired Sparkie
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5th June 2010, 07:47 PM #1
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New Guy, Retired Sparkie
G'day from Brisbane, I retired from sparkie world in 04 bought a caravan went up north in 05 went around Australia 06 did Tassie 08 and all points in between.
I play the fiddle ( not very well ) I'm a member of a couple of fillde groups around Brisbane, it's fun.
I saw a Bob McNally ' Strumstick' on youtube and decided to have a go at making one.
My woodworking tools consisted a hammer some wood chisels ( sparkies use wood chisels to knock cement out from between bricks and other such jobs ) a hacksaw and a few other odds and sods.
The finshed product is as rough as guts, but my daughter loves in and is a dab hand at playing it.
I have since bought a Triton mk3 from the Weekend Shopper, a router, a bandsaw from Hare and Forbes, 3 hand planes, a spokeshave, a jig saw electric planer, disc belt sander and a fret wire saw etc etc, I don't want to count the cost of all this.
My project at the moment is making a router table and have come to a bit of a standstill regards cutting the hole for the insert plate, all the blurb on the net just says to cut a hole for the plate and drop it in, but I think there might be a bit more to it than that.
Sorry for the long winded intro.
Cheer
Piddlefimp ( Bill )
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6th June 2010, 01:58 PM #2
Skwair2rownd
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G'day Piddlefimp and welcome to the madness!!
Another old sparkie with plenty of spark.!
Google the Gifkins Doovetail Jig and see how to make a simple and effective router table.
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6th June 2010, 03:45 PM #3
Welcome Bill
can you post pictures of the design of router table you're building and the plate you need to fitregards from Alberta, Canada
ian
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6th June 2010, 10:20 PM #4
Welcome to the forum. I have not made one myself but yes it is a little different then just cutting a hole and dropping in. Might have to be recess in the hole. Basically lipped so the plate does not fall through.
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7th June 2010, 10:29 AM #5
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Thanks for the welcome and responding to the thread.
The plate is a Carbatec bakelite $45 insert kit. My router came with a template guide/bush and a half inch bit, I did a test cut on some scrap mdf and have ended up wiht a 2mm space from the cut to the straight edge, I have made a jig around the insert plate with a 4mm space so when I go around with the router I should end up with a neat fit, thats the plan.
I'll do a test cut before I get too excited.
I'm using a sheet of melamine 600mm x 450mm x 16 and some mdf the same size to give a bit of strength. I will make 2 legs and clamp the other side to the Triton table just to see how it works.
I need to learn how to post photos.
Cheers
Bill
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7th June 2010, 08:47 PM #6
Welcome to the forum. good to have you aboard
Reality is no background music.
Cheers John
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