Using Router Bits To Create Cavities Vs Hogging It Out With A Forstner

[zyonsdream]

I swivel the table to 90° (vertical) and clamp the workpiece to the table.

That'd be great. As stated, though, my press table doesn't swivel that way, hence my question.

Not sure if you can lower your table enough to do this but this is how I do mine.

First I use a fine point sharpy amd mark the center location on the side of the guitar.

There is a center line that I drew down the face of the backboard. I line my guitar up with that line right where I want the hole to be. I then center it under my Forstner bit and then clamp the jig down on the table using 4 clamps. Then I simply drill out the hole until I break through to the control cavity.

At first I thought I could just use a router but but my hole wasnt 100% clean so I've moved to using the forstner bit because it comes with it's own centering point. There is no jumping around and it cuts a quick clean hole.

Back to the original topic, I've used a bearing guided router bit to do my cavities for years and never had much of an issue doing so (other than it takes forever, is loud and is messy.) However, I recently changed my method and started using the forstner bits to hog. I then clean it up with the router bit. Much quicker and much less mess to clean up.

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