Hello Dan Template work on the Legacy (sadly) was not shown very much in any details. They said it could be done, and showed you the finished product ,or while it was working, but They/ Legacy , left a lot up to the user of there machine to figure out all the little details of them-self's. For spindles. (this is how I do it.)
Alignment is the key, and needs to be dealt with first.The idea is where the follower touches the template is the point where the router bit will touch the part/wood. the way I start is, on my templates, I always mark where the center line is. Then I mark or make sure this line matches up with the Legacy's center (center point the part turn on, Head and talk stock center point.) Now how do I use it? I have a motor drive on my Legacy. I use the motor to push the X axis, I use the follower connected to the Y axis to control the in and out movement by hand. Like everything in wood working, And with/on the Legacy, you need to go slow and take LOTS of light cuts. Trying to hog off lots of wood can be "Big" problems. for most template work you are cutting form the side of the wood. YOU need to make sure your stops are set, so the router bit will not hit anything you don't want it to hit. (rails, head or tailstock...) As a General rule of thumb. I never want to try to make something important to me at first attempt. Use scrap wood, for testing. and "Play" with the machine as much as you can, to get the feel of how it works. As a General note: A MASTER has FAILED, more times then a Noves has ever tried. Don't be afraid to fail, sometimes by learning what not to do, will teach you more then Just knowing how you did it in the past... Back to the templets: make light cuts, do not try to make deep cut. nibble the wood away in multiple cuts, on one large one. When working on flat work/ moldings, The same notes are true, but instead of the center line being your focus point, you must align the part and the template to start from, and end at, when making the cuts. In Legacy clock video, they trapped the follower inside the template so it could only follow the path of the cut. https://ornamentalmills.com/turningaround/PieCrustTable.htm (Zeke used a template to make this table a few years ago. I personally have been wanting to re-design my Legacy templet follower (Again), and make an entirely different type of template follower. On that the follower would sit directly under the part. But that's just me, and my wants. I wish you luck on your ventures. Please let us know how it turns out for you. C.A.G. On Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 11:47:09 PM EDT, Dante5d <camelo...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: I have found instructions on how to assemble the template follower, but nothing on how to use it. I have steel templates from Legacy for a clock, but nothing on how to use them. I'm stuck, can anyone walk me thru the process on using the template follower?Respectfully,Dante5d -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/legacy-ornamental-mills/77756087-39c3-440f-94d5-670d26aa5612n%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/legacy-ornamental-mills/828596446.582654.1661143514558%40mail.yahoo.com.
