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12-21-2005, 05:51 PM
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| Registered User  |  Make a template to create a filler piece? Let me start out by saying my experience with power routers is very limited. I'll be the first to admit this may be a no-brainer question, in which case, I'll concede I have no brains! I wish to make a piece of wood that will fill an existing void in another piece. Specifically, it's in the R*ckler Drill Press table: http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?page=10163 Scroll down the above page to see the void in the back/right corner. Filling this void isn't going to be easy because the able is MDF. It will take dowels and an epoxy paste. I can handle that. But what I want to have on top is a piece of 0.25" maple as a valence (it's better looking than the expoxy filler that will be under it and filling most of the void). What I can't figure out is how to make a template of the existing void so I can route the maple to fit all the curves? If I just use a pattern bit with the maple clamped over the void (using the edges of the void as a guide), I'll get a piece of maple that's the right shape, but too small by the diameter of my pattern bit. This has GOT to be a problem solved long ago by experienced router users. How does one create a template to make a filler piece for any existing void/hole with irregular shape? Enlighten me, oh wisened ones...
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12-22-2005, 10:58 AM
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| The Router Guys Forum King  | Ric: Welcome to the routerforums.com. Your problem sounds like making an inlay. Check out my email router tips in this forum. Here is the link http://www.routerforums.com/showthread.php?t=377
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12-31-2005, 03:51 AM
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01-12-2006, 08:56 PM
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| Registered User Supreme Forum King  | If I'm seeing this correctly, you have a drill press table that has an inlay needing filled? Only good drill press table is one that you build yourself. Personally, I've found nothing good from them. |
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