toddler68 Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 Found this article on how to make an overarm pin router. Enjoy! Overarm pin router Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocksolid Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 thankyou sooo much i really wanted one of these Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay5 Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 I posted that link a while back and most people who replied seemed to thing it would be a little too flimsy with all the wood components. It might work with a small HP router to do little parts, but I wouldnt think it would work for general luthier related routing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocksolid Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 did those people actually test it? i'm a bit of a metalworker myself i could fashion some of the parts that way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stringkilla Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 I know this design. It appeared in the fifties for school boys to build. I'm not being funny it's true, it's an old tried and true design. If one uses baltic birch plywood for all the parts and some tubular support where the bolts go through it becomes a very servicable unit. Just don't over stress it and you're in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maiden69 Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 I will love to use a pin router, but I will never make that one with wood pieces holding the router, there are so many bracing equipment available that can be adapted to be used in this application, that I will never risk my safety with any material weaker than the tool itself... It's like that post a while ago about raising the bandsaw height cutting capacity by using wood pieces. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M_A_T_T Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 It's like that post a while ago about raising the bandsaw height cutting capacity by using wood pieces. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocksolid Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 i think i'll go for it and build that pin router, but i'll make some changes to it, like maiden 69 said there is alot of bracing equipment that could be used, even just parts from home hardware that you can modify, i'm sure you could definitly get away with having some of the parts made of wood, just reinforce them with metal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maiden69 Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 It's like that post a while ago about raising the bandsaw height cutting capacity by using wood pieces. It works fine. ← Yeah, until one day it will give and slice your hand. It can be made of aluminum as easy as you can make it out of wood, so why risk it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddler68 Posted June 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 I posted that link a while back...← Damn! I knew I should have done a search before I posted It might work with a small HP router to do little parts, but I wouldnt think it would work for general luthier related routing. ← Yeah, I'd probably mainly use it for doing my rebates for carved tops... or flattening the surfaces before I glue tops on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reamer Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 I built one from those plans. And eveyone is correct, it is too flimsy. If you have metal working skills and can create it that way, do it! The pin router I have now is virtually the same, only metal, heavy, and stable! Plus to find all the little parts other than wood took me a good hour in Lowe's, just looking through everything! And the worst part, the pipe that screws into the base, doesn't always end up at 90 degrees. So it takes a lot of adjusting to get EVERYTHING perfect, and then as soon as you turn the router on, and start pushing wood through, things shift. It was fun to build, but I was too afraid something would happen and my hand would end up in it! Don't bother building this to try and make guitars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay5 Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 Damn! I knew I should have done a search before I posted blush.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M_A_T_T Posted June 29, 2005 Report Share Posted June 29, 2005 It's like that post a while ago about raising the bandsaw height cutting capacity by using wood pieces. It works fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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