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12-14-2006, 08:45 PM
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| Southern Alaskan  Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Wasilla, Alaska
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|  I would really like to hear more about an auxillary top "jig" for cutting perfect circles, I go cross eyed about 3/4 way through any circle cut and make an error. I avoid circles like the plague whenever I can.
__________________ Todd Hawk G4, Dremel 1800 Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati |
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12-14-2006, 09:37 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Jacksonville, FL
Posts: 547
| I cut circles like that on my bandsaw but don't see how it is possible on a scroll saw. Wish it would work. Hope someone shows us how. EarlinJax |
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12-14-2006, 09:45 PM
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| Southern Alaskan Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Wasilla, Alaska
Posts: 862
| Earlin, I don't have a band saw at the house though the father in law has given me his old one which will be dropped off soon. With that said, what info is out there on cutting circles with a band saw, I've not worked with them since high school shop class.
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12-14-2006, 10:32 PM
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| Fallen Angel Join Date: Mar 2005
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| You can buy a steel circle cutting jig from Diamond. However, you'd have to drill a hole at the rear of your table to fix it. I've actually got one of these (she would have...  ) but I've never used it. It's little more than a swivelling steel post with a hole through which you can slide a steel trammel bar. At the end of the trammel is a pin to hold the workpiece.Why have I never used it? I get very accurate circles using a router on a home-made trammel. Routers also have the advantage of rigid cutting edges which don't have a bias or propensity to flex. Moreover, you can use a router for so many other tasks. If you're going to be cutting circles regularly, my advice would be to invest in a router. Gill
__________________ Want to know where we are? Click here There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is readily adopted. (Schopenhauer, Die Kunst Recht zu Behalten) |
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12-14-2006, 10:35 PM
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| Southern Alaskan Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Wasilla, Alaska
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| Thanks for the info Gill, I do have a router already and as I stated in the Christmas wish list topic I am hoping for a table to go with it. I use my router very little as I haven't taken the time to learn all the things that can be done with it.
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12-14-2006, 10:42 PM
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| Fallen Angel Join Date: Mar 2005
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| Build your own router table, Todd! I'll send you some plans if you like  .Honestly, a router and router table are such useful bits of kit. Once you're familiar with them, you'll wonder how you ever managed without. Gill
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12-14-2006, 10:47 PM
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| Southern Alaskan Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Wasilla, Alaska
Posts: 862
| Gill, I would gladly try to build anything however the shop looks like a precratinating Santa owns it, I just don't seem to get any one thing done. I fear a router table project would end up with the masses of unfinished bird houses and my childhood oak high chair that I am suppose to finish for the new baby...at my current pace that chair will be completed by her 18th birthday with a router table to follow.
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12-15-2006, 04:29 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Georgia, USA
Posts: 819
| Circle cutting Jig> I think I've got the book where I saw the circle cutting jig. I'll have to dig it out and see if I can provide the plan or at least the design to avoid copyright issues. Will look tomorrow.
__________________ Mike  Craftsman 16" VS, Puros Indios and Sam Adams! Scrollin' since Jun/2006 My Gallery http://scrollcrafters.com (reciprocal links welcomed) |
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12-15-2006, 05:51 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Georgia, USA
Posts: 819
| Todd, I found that book. Since circle cutting is off-topic for your post, I've created a post under Tools and Blades. That post includes a crude drawing of the circle cutting jig. I have several patterns I want to cut that are perfect circles. So, I'll be building this jig for my own shop (soon?).
__________________ Mike Craftsman 16" VS, Puros Indios and Sam Adams! Scrollin' since Jun/2006 My Gallery http://scrollcrafters.com (reciprocal links welcomed) |
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12-15-2006, 10:15 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Jacksonville, FL
Posts: 547
| Todd, I built a circle cutting jig for my bandsaw from a pattern in an old ShopNotes magazine. Unfortunately, I'm headed on vacation in the morning so don't have time to dig it out. Pretty much the same kind of jig you would use on the router table. EarlinJax |
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