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Tool Tutorial

Makes repeatable, accurate, and even non-orthogonal joints in wood.

Joinery can also be used ot make box joints 

 

Controls

  • Table - holds the part you're cutting. Can be angled. Has a lockable miter gauge for repeated operations 
  • 2 axes of motion - plunge and XY
  • XY has a 2:1 reduction - a movement of 1 inch on the template makes 1/2" movement of the router
  • Template holder is fixed to the Z slide, but has a vertical height adjustment. Templtaes are available in the rolling cart.
    • Templates have a hole through the center - can use the stylus/pin to center the template on the template holder, then tighten the fasteners int othe t-track.
    • Steps on the inside of the template allow for extremely small changes by varying the depth of the stylus
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Mortises first, then tenons


Tool anatomy

Tool safety

Tool care

Allowed materials

Basic operation

Special operation

  • Designing your own templates - TODO

Extra things to do

  •  add laminated chart of p13 of the walkthrough guide for the pantorouter to the tool somewhere, also all of p14 (helps decide the guide bearing and bit to use for a particular tenon size)
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