Re: Fluted table pedestal

[mwfoscue]

I agree - very nice.  Too bad they had you paint it.  It looks like it would have been beautiful oiled or stained.  

How long did it take you?

Another question:  Your "follower" is basically a point - but what keeps the router "unit" from acting like a pendulum?  If you don't keep it perpendicular to the "point of cut", won't you end up with a "squirrelly" flute?  For that long curve, wouldn't it have been easier to have the follower have two points (~1" apart) - which would keep the cutter in a fixed orientation.

Mac

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ccm Ccm
Sent: Jun 6, 2014 11:35 PM
To: "legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com"
Subject: Re: Fluted table pedestal

Nice job

On Friday, June 6, 2014, Okla Mike (Liltwisted) <legacym...@iglide.net> wrote:

As most of you know, I have stayed strong to the Wood Chuck that I purchased new in 1993.  There are many things the WC can do, because of its raised head and tails stock, that the legacies can not.  Here is an example of a versatility that I accomplished last night.

Let's start with a phone call and a text from a customer.  Here is all I got to make the bit and as well, all I had to go by for the job.




They decided to have it made out of pine.    After the glue-up, I took it to the WC and used my saw on a pattern to get the rough cut and then to the Shop Smith for the final touches.  That left me with the smooth stock ready to be fluted.



I then decided that there was not enough width to flute from the side using a Y axis template follower.  So set out to use a template on a table with a follower on a sliding box that housed my router.



I used the same pattern that was used to cut the post



Lined up the pattern to the follower and bit and drew a line.



Then I off set the line and pattern by 1/4" and secured it to the table that was clamped to the rails. 



Next I secured follower stops to be able to have a uniform stop and start of all flutes.



Next I set up the crank handle indexing.  I used a 4 inch pitch, so 16 turns would give me one full revolution.


You can see here how nicely it is coming out.



Pretty nice looking for a piece of pine. 



Total time from glue up to making a pattern and quick sanding the flutes is 4 hours.  It's a good thing it was pine and only $30 of wood in it.  I charged $250 bare wood. 

Hope you enjoyed a little look at working outside the "Y"

Mike
OK

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