Custom MFT with a twist (and that's not just the warping from my iffy build)

Wuffles

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Subject is just to drag the reader in and trap them in yet another boring question about customer MFT tops and trying to formulate a straightforward method of having a T track with an adjustable stop in it to be used with some QWAS rail dogs for repetitive cuts.

Now I know this can all be done with shims (I've read and used the excellent solution from tjbnwi), but there's a finite amount of room in the world to store the shims and making the shims accurately in the first place has been taxing my tiny brain so what I wants to know is will my plan work?

Route an Incra T track flush into my custom MFT table top at 90 degrees to the guide rail. Set back so I don't cut through it. Then mount a flag stop of some kind, or a better solution perhaps (my brain is fried from all the MFT top threads I've been trawling through) to butt the work up to.

The guide rail would then be fixed in place with the QWAS dogs (or some Parf dogs or whatever).

Most people already have this exact thing in place from the stop on the MFT rail itself, but some of us don't have that and I can't seem to get to the bottom of the custom solution. There are so many ideas on here it's hard to figure out which one worked in the real world.

I think the limitation of this would be that I would still need a shim for cutting thinner pieces, but that's fine at the flag would be adjustable anyway...right?

Thanks in advance.
 
Would this do the same thing, without the need to route the t-track into the MFT?

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They are easy to make, & using the dogs to secure them make them easily removable/adjustable also.

Just a thought.

RMW
 

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Hi Richard, now you can see the crossover on my PM to you about your website as I was thinking along the lines of your product.

Not sure if it's our DNS here in the UK, but your website appears borked still to me, can you confirm?
 
Wuffles said:
Not sure if it's our DNS here in the UK, but your website appears borked still to me, can you confirm?
I've no idea of the meaning of "borked" but if you mean that for you it isn't working I can confirm that it is working for me in Japan.
 
Jerome said:
Wuffles said:
Not sure if it's our DNS here in the UK, but your website appears borked still to me, can you confirm?
I've no idea of the meaning of "borked" but if you mean that for you it isn't working I can confirm that it is working for me in Japan.

Yep, working here again now. He was having an issue yesterday which now seems fixed. Cheers.
 
Awesome, it went down for a time yesterday when I was adding an SSL cert.

Thanks for the follow up on it.

RMW
 
NYC Tiny Shop said:
Richard's idea is good. In an earlier thread, I showed a variety of possible configurations. If you read halfway down the thread, you will see more pics with a similar theme without the need for making any wooden pieces.

http://festoolownersgroup.com/festool-jigs-tool-enhancements/parallel-rip-guides-for-festool-track-saws-using-incra-and-woodpecker-tools/

Yes that's partially where the idea came from - that thread - it didn't fully make sense to me, but I kind of got it - then it got all a bit U.S.A for a Brit like myself and I switched off. Then I thought, hang on old chap, stiff upper lip and all that, what if one were to sink the rail into the table thereby leaving things all nice and flat all the time so you're not completely dismantling things each time.

Essentially though, you're both talking about the same thing, but I'm trying to make it in the UK and bits seem scarce. UJK Technology do the bits (track and clamps) through Axminster, and I could quite easily recreate what you've got there I suppose. Does it work?

The thread kind of dies with a bit of a cliffhanger.
 
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