Cutting groove in cutting board

[Ken Brown]

Hoping someone has some ideas for me ... I make cutting boards that i sell a craft shows. I have one board that I built a jig for to cut a groove into the board. I get many requests for other sized boards with a similar groove. The problem is that I spent HOURS making the jig for this board. The time was well spent as I sell dozens of these boards. Ideally I would like to do this on many of my other boards but don't want to go through the hassle again.

Any creative ways that someone here knows of to do this? NONE of my boards are perfectly square... they all have round corners or are irregular. I use a pattern to route all of the boards so they are uniform in size and shape.

Thanks!

Ken Brown

[bobj3]

Hi Ken

Very Nice cutting board by the way.

I think I would use a pin router (jig) once you have made one for a pattern.

Pin Router Jig,,a good and true 2 x 4 that would have a wooden dowel that would hang over the router bit but on dead center with the router bit in the router table, easy jig to use and make it would just clamp on the back of the router table and hold the round end 1/2" or bigger dowel in place,then just use some double sided carpet tape and stick it to the pattern and the blank stock, then drop the stock on the bit and drop the dowell down in the grove in the pattern. ( a spring on the dowel works great to keep the dowel in place and hold the stock down to the table top) note***you don't need alot of double sided carpet tape a small sq. in ea.corner of the pattern will do it.

You can find plans on the net to make one but you real don't need them most are over kill plans.
http://www.intarsia.net/e-book/pinrout.htm
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http://www.veritastools.com/Products/Page.aspx?p=212
http://www.shopsmith.com/ownersite/c...mpinrouter.htm

This is the one I use,not the same setup but it works the same way as a pin router. (copy cat setup)

http://www.routerforums.com/attachme...se-router2.jpg

Bj