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Here's the thing that helped me route the purfling and binding channels on no 2 and no 3



It's got 5 recycled rocking chair bearings, a bunch of washers that i use as spacers and a thing that holds the handle and i insert that bunch of material on a single long bolt(~3 1/2 " long) and lock it all up with the nut at the base of the bolt.

The upper sliding plate and the fixed base plate are from plexiglass(3/8" thick). The fixed base plate is attached to the router base with countersink holes and the upper sliding plate has 2 legs to clear the bolt's head and has openings to make the adjustments for the channel's width







here are the 2 legs under the sliding upper plate



The fixed base plate has only 2 holes to accept the philip bolts and wingnuts that i use as a locking system for the channels width



Here's a pic of all the components and tools i used to disassemble the jig





And finally, how it indexes from the sides and how the router bit distance is adjusted from the bearing itself



Thanks for watching

Serge

Excellant jig making Serge.I like how you are able to make things work for you to do the job.

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Serge...great jig! Do you find that holding the jig freehand causes any problems?

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Right on Serge. Thanks for sharing.

Off to the shop now. Yaaaaaaaaaa

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Thanks Dave, Brad, Hesh and Rod!

Brad, i forgot to mention that when i route the channels, i put the guitar in a home made vise with paddings and secure the guitar with these clamps, i then put the pressure on the bearing themselves and do the cut as per Stew mac's routing instructions with the arrows but i have to unclamp and turn the guitar, slower but really helps to keep the guitar steady while routing
in a free hand way so to speak but sideways!

Pretty neat adaptation there, Serge. Don't let your bearings fall into your sound port while going around.

A lot of Canadian ingenuity there.

Ron

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Pretty durn slick Serge...pretty slick!

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Thanks for the pictorial Serge. Much appreciated.

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Thanks Ron, Bill and Lillian!

I do not put any pride in the end result or on the look for the stuff was free and the inspiration is mostly from very smart people other than me but if it can give hope to someone who's as broke as me then it was well worth the posting of this jig because by scrounging and putting things together, i sometimes feel rich.

Ingenuity at its finest!
Go Serge!

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Thanks Coe!

Serge, might I suggest you take a hacksaw to the bolt that is next to your fingers? I would be tearing up my fingers if I were using the jig. Grace is not my middle name.

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a very utilitarian, workable solution to the problem.

my only other suggestion other than to use the hacksaw on the bolt (lillian, you can't imagine what real lack of grace means) would be to sand the sharp edges off the plastic which rides on the top or back. it looks as if it could leave marks.

Yeah, it should have been done a while ago but i'm a lazy guy sometimes, yeah me!

Thanks Lillian, will listen to that good advice!

Good point Michael, i also want to make the underside of that plate have a slight angle for when it rides over the upper bout of the back and top.
Thanks Michael.

[QUOTE=Serge Poirier] ...if it can give hope to someone who's as broke as me...[/QUOTE]
It did! Thanks, Serge, and well done!

My pleasure Carlton!

Serge, mon ami, Will you be binding on a production basis? Talk about bulletproof. Regards,MT

Right on Serge! Keep up the great work...

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Thanks Mike, no , not just yet but if the opportunity presents itself, i just might though!

I consider myself very lucky to have the eye on matching pieces together and get to what i aim for, all my jigs were done that way, with recycled stuff and i still managed to spend quite a fortune on everything else!

Good to see you posting again Mike, please keep us posted on the projects that you are currently working on my friend!

Thanks Alain, did you try the "paste roller" idea yet?

[QUOTE=crazymanmichael] a very utilitarian, workable solution to the problem.

my only other suggestion other than to use the hacksaw on the bolt (lillian, you can't imagine what real lack of grace means) would be to sand the sharp edges off the plastic which rides on the top or back. it looks as if it could leave marks.[/QUOTE]

Unfortunately Michael I can. I had more doctor and ER visits than my three brothers together.

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