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Well, I took coach Tony's (as Serge would say) advise and instruction's from circle cutter details topic and built one for myself. It is slick, I just finished it up this morning and it is soooooooo much better than the plywood plate I was using.

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you Tony.

Here are some pics.







I cut a little walnut turn knob for it and cut some little grooves in it as suggested by Dennis E in the original post. Thanks Dennis.



I just love this place. Thanks again for all the great ideas around here everyone.

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I love that tool

It looks professionally done!

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Very neat Rod, WOW! What Joe said, real pro job!

Nice job Rod! What is the black stuff you used?

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Dave Rector
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Very impressive Rod. Looks like I'll have to save this to my "must build" file.

Thanks for the pics Rod!
I can clearly see the benefits of such a great tool!

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Pretty slick Rod. Someone should put one of these in the "Jigs, Tools and Techniques" section.

Pretty darn cool! Thanks, Rod. And Tony, too.

Thanks Guys, Of course nothing is ever perfect the first time out right.

Well I went to go and cut a rosette channel with it and looking at the layout on the top, I took a second look at the base and realized that I couldn't cut a small enough soundhole. Well, I had to make a slight modification so here it is.



Now I can cut as small as 2" dia and it increments very well.

This is a pic of the test cuts after the modification. 3/16" pin hole and 1/4" cutter bit.

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Great job Rod. When I first looked at the pictures I thought it was something you picked up from a vendor somewhere. It is definately going in the must build pile.

And I second the notion that you ought to write it up and put it in the jig section. Thanks for sharing.

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I really must insist that Tony Karol gets the credit for this fine tool, his tool is my inspiration. As he would probably say that Richard Schneider was his inspiration to build his.

I do a little bit different than Tony's, which is the way it should be. I used 3/8" stabilizer rods on mine as I felt that 1/4" was to wimpy.

I will be happy to have it in the jigs tools & techniques section if Lance and Brock want to put it there.

Oh and Dave Rector, the black material is UHWM. Got it from a local plastic tank manufacturer.

Total cost to build this is about $5-$8.

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WOW Rod, the results are there, i agree with everyone who wishes to have this tool in the jigs section, it looks like you just bought it from a store, really neat!

Rod -- yours looks excellent. I like the design of yours better than the one I built (looks nicer to).

Here's the version I built from an article I found in a Big Red Book. Mine is built to hold the shaft of my Foredom When I posted mine it spurred some debate from the venerable MichaelP as to whether it would work

Let us know how you like yours.

Anthony Z38998.401099537

Hey Rod ... as I was reading down thru the posts, and looking at the pix, the first thing that hit my mind was how small a radius it would do, and you might need to mod the jig, as I had to do to mine for the first 3.5 inch soundhole on a parlour. You nailed it though before I could get this out. Well done.

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Anthony, neat little jig, do you do your inlays with this set up?

Serge I have another base for the jig shown above that I use for cutting my inlay pockets. I just remove the top part (which has the wood block on top) and attach it to a small base I have. Works great -- essentially 1 jig - 2 purposes.

Happy Thanksgiving Serge

Thanks Captin Tony.

Anthony, your's looks like it would work just fine, and I bet it does.

I sure love great ideas like this and many others I've found shared by the great group of people here.

Thanks to everyone for sharing an idea. Now keep em' coming, I wouldn't want to build a guitar or anything

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Thanks Anthony, really cool, i do have a Dremel foredom(?) and i will have to get it working for me then!

Happy Thanksgiving to you and to everyone also!