Bechstein Pinblock

[david thomson]

Thanks for the suggestions, Bill.  I've never heard of an over-arm router.  DO you
have more info on that?

There are really only two levels to the block - the bass section is raised about
3/8" and I'm planning to glue that on. But this step at the plate flange is what's
troubling me.  It's not square, it's on an angle downward which is akward.  I get
the Journal but I think the article you are refering to was back in '97 (?) which
predates my subscription.

Bill Ballard wrote:

> At 8:10 AM -0500 1/29/04, david thomson wrote:
> >SO...now that I'm ready to begin shaping
> >the the Bolduc blank I can't find an appropriate router bit with a 25
> >degree angle to cut the ledge.  Any suggestions?  Does such a bit
> >exist?  It looks like that's how it was made originally.
>
> If you really must do this with a router, I'd buy a dovetail bit
> (*with a 1/2" shank*) and have a machinist regrind it to match. But
> this job really wants to be done on an over-arm router, or even a
> shaper. Do I gather you're milling this out of a solid panel, or
> making your layers individually and then gluing them up? John Hartman
> had an excellent article in the PTJ a few years ago. Are you a
> subscriber?
>
> Bill Ballard RPT
> NH Chapter, P.T.G.
>
> "There are fifty ways to screw up on this job. If you can think of
> twenty of them, you're a genius......and you aint no genius"
>      ...........Mickey Rourke to William Hurt, in "Body Heat", discussing arson.
>
> BTW, not referring to anyone in particular (with the possible
> exception of myself).
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