Small Router
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A suitable piece of cast iron cut from an old upright piano frame. This is excellent quality cast iron and one piano frame will make parts for quite a few models and small tools!
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Marking out for cutter & adjusting screw positions.
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On to the rotary table to profile & cut out the centre.
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Cutter from 1/4" silver steel (Scott - that's O1 drill rod !), heated & bent, partly filed to shape before hardening.
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Rounding off by hand filing
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The ivory side handles start off as balls.
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Facets fly cut in the lathe carefully! (why carefully? - no reverse on lathe & ball screwed onto spigot)
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Marking out for handle positions.
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Handle locations drilled & c/bored. Final profiling before painting.
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Finished router compared to my Stanley #71
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