jupiteruke
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I wanted a circle cutting jig for my dremel router base (Stew-Mac) that would provide absolute repeatability so that I could always cut the same size rosette and sound holes. That way I could have corresponding patterns for the rosette material (pearl), pre-defined for various width purfling around the edges of the pearl.
Because I wanted absolute repeatability I did not want any sort of 'adjustable' circle cutter. There would always be a little variation whenever the adjustment was made. So ... my local community college offered a 2 evening course in using their laser cutter at the "Fab Lab" where they are moving into all sorts of new manufacturing techniques. The laser cutter will cut 1/4" acrylic, with accuracy of .001". It will cut precise 1/8" holes.
I made up a router base, with 1/8" holes spaced so that the difference in diameter when any 2 successive holes are used as the pivot points around a 1/8" pin is .1" With this router base I never have to adjust anything, and can repeatedly cut holes from 2" in diameter to 6" in diameter, in increments of .1" I can write in my log book that this rosette was cut with #4 inner and #9 outer. I have not done it yet, but this would also proved a repeatable way of doing 'offset' rosettes, where one side was thicker than the other, just by having two pivot points.
The laser cutter is just a "printer" of a Corel Draw graphic document. If anyone wants the Corel Draw file to try just let me know.
The router base:
Because I wanted absolute repeatability I did not want any sort of 'adjustable' circle cutter. There would always be a little variation whenever the adjustment was made. So ... my local community college offered a 2 evening course in using their laser cutter at the "Fab Lab" where they are moving into all sorts of new manufacturing techniques. The laser cutter will cut 1/4" acrylic, with accuracy of .001". It will cut precise 1/8" holes.
I made up a router base, with 1/8" holes spaced so that the difference in diameter when any 2 successive holes are used as the pivot points around a 1/8" pin is .1" With this router base I never have to adjust anything, and can repeatedly cut holes from 2" in diameter to 6" in diameter, in increments of .1" I can write in my log book that this rosette was cut with #4 inner and #9 outer. I have not done it yet, but this would also proved a repeatable way of doing 'offset' rosettes, where one side was thicker than the other, just by having two pivot points.
The laser cutter is just a "printer" of a Corel Draw graphic document. If anyone wants the Corel Draw file to try just let me know.
The router base:
