A simple technique to quality pattern making…
March 23, 2009 by admin
Filed under Router Tips
This technique will add to your pattern making skills, which will help to unleash your creative power and leverage the power of the router to make multiple parts with each part being made the same. In this tip we are going to make a simple retangular pattern.
Remember: It is not the pattern that is important here it is the technique used to produce the pattern that is important.
Learn to make quality Patterns easily and quickly. Now it is your turn to try this new technique and make a simple pattern for the router to make mulitiple parts made directly from your pattern fixture.
I am a little confused. Do you use this type of pattern with a table mounted router or are you just using a table mounted router to make the pattern?
Good info Rick thanks CJ
I found this video helpful, but how would route the shape of a router plate that would set into a groove with a lip on it so the plate would not fll though- this might be a good video
The sticks are the pattern? Or the piece the sticks are on?Asumming,that you are cutting out the pattern,using the sticks,as a guide,not a bad idea! Thanks DRA
Alice: This is making of the pattern how you hold the pattern in place is another part of the jig and fixture process. An example is the router tip about the hardware you can replace the pattern to drill the holes with the rectangle pattern used to cut inset drawer pulls. This pattern making technique makes both portable and table mounted patterns. Next is the process of making the jig or fixture to hold the pattern.
Tom: The process of making the pattern is part one to cutting the offset lip for the base plate. Here is the short version to making the offset cut for the base plate. Using the 1/2″ router bit and a 5/8″ guide set the depth of cut to 3/8″ cut the outside cut for the base plate then change the router guide to the 1″ guide this will move your router bit in by 3/8″. Set the depth of cut to the thickness of the table top and make the cut through the table…you get the offset cut for your base plate.
Thanks all for your comments…Rick
I am lost! Are you using the “sticks” to guide a bearing mounted router bit to cut an opening that follows the stick outline?
The sticks are used to make the master pattern. The sticks are not the pattern, could you imagine having to place the sticks on each piece you wanted to cut out….each one would be different and that is not the way you want to do it.
Rick
Goodday from sunny South Africa. I am loving your tips and more especially the workshop videos, to which I subscribe. Any way that I can save all this stuff (I know u have copyright), but downloading a typical 28 min workshop lesson took me nearly 2 hrs with our limited band width here.
Thanks in anticipation and best wishes
Mike Shipley