Wait. One more thing. did you say you were ??? stopping the movement of the
router between cuts???
5. rotate the work piece 1 revolution.
6. Move router abour 5/8" to the right
7. Repeat steps 5 and 6 until reaching the head end of the work piece.
The ridges can easily be felt and are not jus
HI Jim
There has been a lot of good information given here on your topic.
Have you tried to make one very light pass on the wood and see the results?
Yes set-up and alignment is important, and making sure that the router bit is
true too. BUT for what I see form your picture it could just be you
One thing you may look into is the square of the router. If one side,
left or right, is high, it will do what we are seeing here. Also if the
router is allowed to lift because of pressure it will do this. If all
is close enough and you take a clean out final pass, start it half the
distance
I would think you should decrease your rate of feed as much as possible, or
increase the spindle RPM's...5/8" in one revolution is a fast feed, in my
opinion...but then again, you don't want to stand there for an extended
period of time while the router moves from one end to the other...but I do
First off, thank you all for your comments. I am learning a lot.
The accuracy I am concerned with is that of the setup. How accurate does
the setup have to be to get rid of the ridges that remain after I turn the
work piece to diameter.
The attached photos will (I hope) show the ridges.
The pro
Hi Jim,
Can you take a photo of your results? The offset of the routerbit is more
important than the four corner measurements. For starters, is the 2704 bit
really flat? The offset of the bit can be anywhere from where the tip of the
touches center to just short of the center of the bit. If the
forgot to ask, how well does the tailstock line up with the headstock?...a
.004" misalignment will produce a .009 taper...and the legacy design, in
regards to headstock and tailstock, while very adequate for all that it
needs to do, certainly is prone to a small misalignment...joe
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my two cents...nine thousandths, .009, to me is an acceptable tolerance for
a piece done on a legacy machine...there are times when we are cutting up
some solids for a job and overnight I have seen a difference of thirty
thousandths, .030 or 1/32",the next day...I have even gotten drawings from
