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DOUBLETAPER. Black Decker and

Porter-Cable

routers both have a double

tapered collet. A taper o n

the

eQlleL

nut fits

over 3 taper

on

the collet.

And then

a

second taper on the collet fits into a

13.,..1'\'(1ole

in

the end ofthe router arbor,

~'lhe nut

i tbe

bit in the router.

Al l collet ,work on the same basic princi

pie: a taper on one

part.

of the ..ssembly

works against a 18p r on another part, B y

ti (htening a nut round the collet (0 in

some

routers tightenin duwn the

collet

itself) the two tapers bel l i ' on one another

a nd c au se

the collet to

squeeze

around the

shank of the bit.

A

router collet is different from a drill

chuck in lhat a collet wraps around and

beai. .

on the entire shank uf the router bit,

A drill chuck bears on a limited number of

points (usually three),

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the fence.. . fmm th~ bllle ss e. And we also wanted toadrl a f an cy

t ou ch w ith th e in la id to p.

In one respeet this ca.se isonly afour-sided

bo x that's joined with miter a nd sp lin e

joints. But what make ' it a Uttle un ique

that the s id es . a re c ut t o the shape ofagenUe

pa rabo li c eove ( so r t

of

an

onSet swoop).

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SIDES

I started work by cutting the stock (I used

walnut) for the sides to rough size. This

means cutting tw o p iece s o f stock

('1',.

actual t hi cknes s) to a r ou gh w idt h orall, by

28

long.

This

~ e lds one long

an d

one short

side OUIof each piece wlth a little le1\oven)

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MmR AND SPUNE JOINTS

Aiter ~he cove is seraped ami sanded

smooth. cut the workpieces to get a I:rand

9'length o ut o f

each

piece. T he -e fo ur p ie ce s

are then mitered to get two front-back

pieces (A) 1 2 V long and two end pieces (8)

SV.long.see Fig. 5.

CUTTOLENGTH.

To

miter these pieces to

length, I added an auxiliary fence to the

miter gauge and used u stop block (:IS

shown in Fig. 6) to make sure I cut match

ing pieces to exactly the same length.

S ta rt b y

CUlling

a

I;; miter on one

end of

each workpiece. Thcnclamp a mitered stop

block to the

aux il ia ry fence

to eutone ofthe

fron~ back pieces (A

Ho

final length. 11 se t

tb e s to p so the pieee \\'1' a little lo ng a nd

made a cut. Then Iudged the stop over

and cut to the final length of 12 1

A s s oo n a.

this

P Ie ce is c ut, c ut

the other

front-back pi,.....,

with

the ,top

block

in the

same po>ition. Then repeat

t hi s P I OCedUI l

to miter the two end pieces 8) to n f ina l

length of8\,

GROOVE .OR SPLINE. The sides are

joined with the aid ofsplines. (Spline. add

strength

to

the miters and keep the piece.

aligned as they're clamped together.)

1bmake

this joint,

~'UU

have to cut a

to,.

deep

groove

ineach mitered end, see COl

ner Detail in Fig. 5. Keep the saw blade at

a 45' angle and slide the rip fence over to

u se as

It

.IOp. Posit ion

the f ce

10c ut th e

groove

ii I om

the

iltsilb corner o f e ach

p ie ce, see F ig. 7 .

~ote;It helps here to use

8

lest piece to

m ak e s ure the groove is no t cut too deep so

you don't cut through into the cove.

TRIM TO II'IDTlI. After

the

grooves are

c ut. th e fo ur sides ca n be trimmed t08 final

widlh ofZV'. Trim a little offbclh ed~ so

there's 8 ~ -wjdc border above the cove

and a

\

-wide border below the cove, see

Fig. 8.

SPLINES.

The last step is to

CUl

the

splines. Since the spbnes

will

show on lhe

top edge of the ease. I decided 10 make

them out of walnut (using scrap left over

f rom mak in J ( the sides) .

The splines are cut so the grain runs

across

the

jomt line (for grearest

strength), ~ the blade a little over .

high (the combined depth of the gro ov es in

the mitered ends). and set the fence '.

from

lhe blade tthe thickness of the saw

blade kerO..... . Step l in ~ig..

Now stand the workpiece on end and

make cuts on bolh ends, Then re-sdjust the

fence to cut off the 'plint'

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