simplenik

Good day

I'm posting it on this forum because most of the work was made on the router table.

The stool is made of 1¼" thick oak and according to the "instructions" it's without any finish, just pure Oak as you see on the pics.

The red markings (I, II, III, V) has nothing to do with the drilling, they are only for the wood patterns.

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niki

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Bob

Niki,

AWESOME...... and you say no glue was used on the joints at all? That is some very tight jointery for sure.

I was looking at your table saw dust collection. If you get a chance, could elaborate on your system and how happy you are with it?

Many thanks for all the great posts. I think perhaps you should be in the running of forum contibutor instead of me.

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simplenik

Thank you Bob

Don't get me wrong, I did glue it and even with Polyurethane glue.

On the pic with the text "Dowel power only - no glue" it's only a dry run.

The TS blade is in enclosed shroud (EU Safety regulations), the DC port is under the table and my R2D2 is connected to this port. Usually, the R2D2 is removing almost all the dust.

The blade guard is connected to the Riving knife (that is a must as per the EU safety regulations) with bolt and wing nut and includes dust port (yes, also EU safety reg.).
Well, if I have already, why not to use it, so I'm connecting to it the second shop vac (you can see it on the 3rd pics connected to the router table - the black rectangular box) and I get zero dust.

Both shop vacs are on wheels and I increased the hose dia to 2" on both of them

niki


This is my R2D2

harrysin

Beautiful work Niki, especially when one considers you're rather basic set-up. You did however fail to show the very important drilling operation. One other point, I'm not convinced that trapping the timber against the blade is the way to go, even though it appears to be spring pressure, others thoughts on this will be of interest.

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I am not sure Harry myself. I would think this would act much like a feather board and once it get's to the riving knife I am not sure that would be a problem plus he does have a hold down roller on the board as well on the fence side of the cut. If it isn't burning or pinching during the cut my guess is he has it set up right on.

Corey

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Joe Lyddon

Hi Niki!

Another great project and photo coverage!

I too would like to see your drilling jig / method.

It looks like they're small / short sitting stools... but it's hard to tell in the pics.
What are the overall dimens.?

Oh, I'm curious... do you really have room for them in your garage?
... or are they to be used elsewhere?

Beautiful work!

What country are you in right now?

Thank you for sharing!!

Dr.Zook

The fit on those are really nice Niki. Nice work. Thanks for the pics. Glad to see there is no snow in the driveway.

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simplenik

Thank you for your kind replies

Harry
The procedure is a bit long [I mean, pictures wise (35 pics), time wise, it takes some 15~20 minutes for this project], I'll post it in other thread.
The timber is not trapped, it's difficult to see in the pic, but the front roller of the so-called "feather roller" is located before the blade and even with "Full high" blade, the roller pressure is released 1¾" before the blade.




Corey
You are correct, the rollers are acting as Feather board but they also push the timber down to the table.
The Hold-down rollers are located one before and one after the blade and in addition to holding down the timber, they also push it toward the fence.
The set-up of "Feeder rollers" combined with the "Hold down rollers" makes the cutting of big long boards a matter of "Just push it and don't wary".




Joe
Yes I have space. All my jigs are very small or flat and can be stored easily.
I live in Poland and that's the reason for my late replies, sometimes....

Dr.Zook
Well, the winter must end one day. But look at the bright side...I have 3~4 months "Hibernation"....to get fat again after the hard work of the summer

Thanks again
niki

harrysin

I'm pretty sure that Niki mentioned Poland in a previous post, if that is so I would love to know how he learned such near perfect English.

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harrysin

It looks like Niki and I clicked our mice at the same time. Well, what can anyone say about Niki, here we have a most ingenious guy turning out first class work with what appears to be the minimum of equipment. Having said that, did you notice the saw blade, it looked like 300mm with about 80 teeth, if so it puts my Triton 9 1/4" to shame.
Translation: 300mm = approx. 12" Note for Niki, Template Tom and I are attempting to educate the Yanks into thinking metric, they make such hard work of measurements, things like 19/64ths.
Hopefully I've been on the forum long enough for no-one to take offence at my ramblings, I suspect that even Joe has mellowed.

Edit; changed 8 1/4' to 9 1/4"

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