Ready Steady Eddy

**Jonathan** · 12-11-2014

Originally Posted by EddyCurrent

I have a 4" extractor but it's a lot noisier than the small one, maybe I can make two dust shoes, one for each vac.

6" is much better than 4" ... http://billpentz.com/woodworking/cyc...g_introduction

**GEOFFREY** · 12-11-2014

Originally Posted by Jonathan

6" is much better than 4" ... http://billpentz.com/woodworking/cyc...g_introduction

You are dead right Jon, but you will find it shrinks when you get old!!! G.

**ba99297** · 12-11-2014

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**EddyCurrent** · 12-11-2014

@ba99297, wrong thread my friend, I've done it myself so no worries.

**ba99297** · 13-11-2014

Sorry Eddy!!!

**EddyCurrent** · 18-11-2014

Since using the latest Smooth Stepper plugin for several weeks, months ? I've had no problems with homing the X and slaved A drives, I would say that issue is now sorted.
ESS_v10r2d1d.zip

**Ger21** · 19-11-2014

And it only took them ~5 years to get it right.

**JAZZCNC** · 19-11-2014

Originally Posted by Ger21

And it only took them ~5 years to get it right.

Wouldn't go so far to say got it right but it does work.!

**EddyCurrent** · 07-12-2014

Proposed modifications !
This is to allow joints to be cut in the ends of wood, it provides a 'hole' of roughly 200mm square so the wood can be placed in the X or Y planes.
It's based on using this vice guts; http://www.canadiantools.co.uk/tools...19.html#SID=50, the rest is made from various types of wood (normal for this type of vice

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Made so it's removable with a replaceable insert to put the bed back to normal.

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I can't have the vice sticking out at the front so the only thing to confirm is whether I can hold a piece of wood in the jaws while tightening the vice.
There's more than enough room above for the spindle and tooling.

Edit:

Would this do instead ?

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**Wobblycogs** · 07-12-2014

Interesting idea and a good price for that vice if memory serves. I can't help feeling that while I think this will work it's going to be a lot of hassle to set up for the benefit it brings unless you are intending to make a run of identical components. For the joint to be any good you'll need to get the wood bang on parallel with the cutter (in the vertical direction) which will be difficult without a fence which would have to stick down though the table.

I think I'd invest my time in buying a Festool Domino (amazing bit of kit) and if I wanted dovetails a dovetailing jig.