[Terry Q]

Plus lots more


In woodworking there is always more then one way to accomplish something.

 

[Terry Q]

I have no patience for trying to shoot video and edit a build. I do take pictures from time to time, but not much for sharing. On another forum I tried showing off the features of my workbench build but was told I was too wordy, so rather then offend anyone I tend to share only knowledge.

The cabinet was just practice and is an under the workbench storage cabinet for chisels and layout tools. You should see the pile of practice boxes I made getting to the point where I felt competent with the Incra fence. Every one is made using a different dovetail or box joint, no two are the same.

In woodworking there is always more then one way to accomplish something.

 

[Terry Q]

Wow Terry , you are the king of joints . It’s one thing I really have a liking for , and hope to conquer someday . Blind dovetails are my favourite, and I have an Incra table and the fence . Just need Incras other neccesary accessories.

On your first pic , the second drawer from the top and the bottom one are my favourites

So this was all done with Incras system ?

Yes, all standard joints laid out in either the manual that came with the jig, or their project book that is bought separately. Not cleaver enough to figure it out by myself.

There are templates for about 60 different dovetail and box joints.

The drawers have red oak fronts and backs, white maple sides, Cherry and walnut accents.

In woodworking there is always more then one way to accomplish something.

 

[Terry Q]

A project I’m currently working on. The brown is white oak, light color is curly maple. The goal of the project is to wrap the dark color around the light color and vice-versa. If you look closely the light colored sides have an 1/8 inch dark strip on the top and bottom, continuous with the corner piece.

I learned several important lessons like making sure the corner accent piece is made out of a piece of wood that the large panel was, because the colors don’t match.

It’s an eight drawer project, two different sized drawers. The height of the drawers are important in making them come out looking right.


In woodworking there is always more then one way to accomplish something.

 

[Terry Q]

It allows for repeatable, “programmable” type cuts. Having a fence that moves in exacting 1/32 increments allows projects you can’t do with a standard fence that you have to bump to fine tune.

More examples:

Business card holders

Whistles that I made to give to the youngest generation at family reunion in an attempt to drive their parents nuts

A trivet that had I think, 56 fence changes that needed to be repeatable. I know it would be easy to make something like this using cnc, but I dare you to try it on another router table.

The advantages of the Incra fence are for joinery and small craft type projects. If you think a router fence is just useful for edge profiling or routing rabbits, dados and grooves then your right, you can do everything you want using your fence to do, but if you want to open yourself up to entirely new ways to use a router table, then an Incra fence will allow you to do things you never consider possible.

It isn’t just the front-to-back movements that offer 1/32 adjustments. The fence offers 1/32 left-to-right adjustment of stops for precise stopped dados and grooves. The superfence add-on also allows for routing tall items safely and precisely.


In woodworking there is always more then one way to accomplish something.

 

[Terry Q]

Terry we are a lot nicer and we would never say anything about someone being to wordy. Your joinery is awesome. Which Incra product are you using?

I have the Incra LS Positioner 25 with their super system fence. It requires a massively large router table. Truth be told, the only advantage of the LS25 over the LS17 is those rare circumstances where you really need to route a dado another 8 inches further from the end of your board. If I have lots of dados to run I usually use a dado stack on my table saw anyway.

After using the LS Positioner on my router table I decided to go for the same precision on my table saw so I bought one for that, even though my Jet Exacta came with a really nice Bessemer style fence with a second locking knob and micro adjust dial. It’s nice knowing that I can set the fence, make some cuts, change the fence and make more cuts, then change it back knowing the cuts are exactly the same width as the first time. I previously would cut all similar sized parts at the same time knowing that consistency is more important than an exact measurement. Now I don’t have to worry about it, I get consistent results with the right measurement even if I have to go back and cut more piece later. Another advantage of the LS Positioner on a table saw is when cutting really thin pieces, but we aren’t talking table saws here.

There is a third Incra product I really like for precise layouts and that’s the Incra T-rules. Very precise layout lines down to the 64th of an inch or 100th of an inch with the pro T-rules



In woodworking there is always more then one way to accomplish something.