Wood Lathe Router Jig (Horizontal Milling)

[genopsdir]

So back in March I shared my video on how I made hexagonal (and other polygonal) pen blanks… now I have a video (and Instructable Guide) on how I made my Wood Lathe Router Jig (Horizontal Milling), including a cut sheet. I also use it for other embellishments. Let me know what you think and if there are ways to improve. I'm thinking of a single pivot, similar to a sphere cutting jig, to allow creating other details.

Wood Lathe Router Jig (Horizontal Milling)

Wood Lathe Router Jig (Horizontal Milling): Add horizontal embellishments or create polygon blanks using your wood lathe indexing feature and this jig! This project will mount a small trim router to this sled and slide along the lathe bed (X axis), includes minor adjustments for Y & Z a…

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[target64]

Very nice job.

 

[duncsuss]

Nice! I left this note on the other thread ...

Well done!

My experience of faceting pen barrels is using a "fluting jig"from PennState, which comes with a table that clamps to the lathe ways, and has a fence the router jig runs along.

I found that "end milling" with the flat end of the router bit left a lot of swirl marks, and clean up took a long time (I had to start sanding at a coarser grit than I normally would). When I raised the router bit and pushed the whole thing over the workpiece, so it cut using the sides of the router bit, I got a much cleaner result and there was a lot less sanding required.

As they say - your results may vary.

 

[genopsdir]

Very nice job.

Thank you! Hope it proves useful!