Carvex PSC400 not guiding the blade thru curves

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ill make a video the way I make circles on site quickly.  I have some plywood only so I know if your using solid wood you do have grain to contend with but you just go slower and make sure you have a sharp cutter.

Thing is I am making a circle out of ply wood you can use the circle plywood as a template as another method to cut your circle out your main piece if you wanted to instead by just simply clamping or screwing the ply piece on your work piece and then using a coping cutter to trim your piece down    you first simply place your circle template on top then mark round with your pencil then  free hand with your jigsaw  cut 5-10 mm away from you line or as close as you dare to go make sure no wondering blade goes further past and then place your ply template back on and using your router trim back.

Any way ill post a video in a 10 mins wont take me long to make a circle.

JMB
 
When you get board of them I'll take them off your hands and talent very good care of them caus I'm too poor to buy any festool these days  :'(
 
Thanks JMB - that's pretty much what I was planning on doing based on what Peter wrote above.  [smile]

Peter: Just to correct a slight misunderstanding in a previous message of yours - I'm not making a hole in the table top for a sink but a cover to the existing sing that's in the camper van. The sink has an internal lip where the cover will seat (top inside diameter 38cm and lower parts inside diameter 35,7cm). When the cover is in place it will double as a cutting board/table surface next to the gas hobs.

I was looking at my router tonight after work and there are two screw holes (M6?) in the bottom of the OF1400 baseplate - could these be used for the attachment of the plywood trammel since the 1400 doesn't have the conveniently detachable baseplate of the 2.2k?
 
that  detachable base plate looks reaaly handy for jigs like this. i wish the other routers were like that.

reiska, i would drill a 30mm (or other guide bush size but the 30mm is standard in the box) in the jig and the router can rotate about it in the hole.
 
Alan m said:
that  detachable base plate looks reaaly handy for jigs like this. i wish the other routers were like that.

reiska, i would drill a 30mm (or other guide bush size but the 30mm is standard in the box) in the jig and the router can rotate about it in the hole.
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yeah it is dude! Brilliant! Love it  makes me actually want to use the CMS with out the detachable base I wouldnt bother with the CMS just pain in the arse.  I hardly used it before but now I use it loads more.  I think sometimes festool dont try and make stuff site friendly even though its suppose to be portable but dont know about you but I dont like carrying a box full of bits and pieces which take 5-10 mins to screw together to then be taken apart and most likely loose something on a job.

JMB
 
Alan m said:
reiska, i would drill a 30mm (or other guide bush size but the 30mm is standard in the box) in the jig and the router can rotate about it in the hole.
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Excellent idea and makes the making the jig that much easier - I wish I had already pulled the trigger on getting those fancy Forstner bits... I guess this is a gig for the old adjustable holesaw...
 
Reiska said:
Thanks JMB - that's pretty much what I was planning on doing based on what Peter wrote above.  [smile]

I was looking at my router tonight after work and there are two screw holes (M6?) in the bottom of the OF1400 baseplate - could these be used for the attachment of the plywood trammel since the 1400 doesn't have the conveniently detachable baseplate of the 2.2k?
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I imagine that the OF1400 base plate is like that - I made up my trammel by screwing my trammel are to the base of my OF2200. I think that JMB's solution, with the spare base mounted on the trammel, is brilliant and an excellent way to go if you expect to do more than one.

It is interesting, we have a round top to the sink in our motorhome. On the underside it has plastic so that it can be used as a chopping board.

Peter
 
I just drill a hole in a scrap of ply and drop the guide bush in. Done holes as smal as 76mm this way.

Built this using that method too
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For a hole as small as that i would cut a 54mm hole in ply then use a 17bush with a 12mm cutter and run it around
 
"When our engineers sit down to design a new tool, they don't aim for mediocrity. Only the finest engineering, design, components and finish result in a tool worthy of the Festool name."

Must be talking about the Carvex.  Was working for some Germans on their holiday home here in France today and he saw me getting angry.  When I explained it was the Carvex, again and that I'd left my Bosch in the workshop he said "Yes we make rubbish in Germany sometimes too."
 
Thanks Peter & JMB for the hints - got the lid done nicely with my router and it turned out that when I made the trammel long enough to have a "counter rotation handle" on the other side of the trammel point the work piece stayed happily still without any clamping or taping.

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And a couple of pics of it in the campervan:

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Yes, I just originally thought that I could do a perfect circle with the jigsaw and then do the rebate with a bearing router bit...

This way done the making of the whole lid including sanding & finishing took about ½ of the time to do the jig  [big grin]
 
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