TerryRFC

Hello everyone,

I am creating some plaques to hold poker chips. Poker chips have a diameter of 1.535" to 1.575". I can't find a drill to make the recesses for the chips so I am going to make a template and use template guide (the thingy that fits around the bit and rubs up against the template) to make recesses in the plaque to put the chips in. Most other poker chip displays use a hole punched in foam rubber to hold the chips. The foam rubber does not have to be so critical in it's diameter dimension.

In a couple of sources I have read or seen on DVDs, it is advised that the same edge of the template guide should be used to maintain equal distancing. I know that you can center the bit and do all that but it still seems that always having a single point of the template guide rub the template is the way to go. Expecially if I am trying to maintain some close tolerances.

Now for my question. I am thinking of making a 3 foot diameter turn table as a work surface. Then it would be easer for me to turn the work versus rotating the router as I go around the 1.575+" hole in the template. I would put a small motor on the turn table and just stand in one spot holding the router while the work turns under it. Then I would reposition the work so that the next chip holding recess is at the center point of the turn table. Rinse and repeat for the 20 to 40 recesses I need to create.

Any comments will be very helpful.
Thanks,

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Terry L. Pinotti
Mpls, MN

Slow and easy does it.