Woodwork Wizard
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Festool MFT/3 fence on R/H side with measurement scale, 1350mm (4' 5'') from splinter guard. This R/H fence facilitates routing housings (dados) all the way along a board as for example in bookcase sides. Without this R/H fence the board can move once you get to routing the housings towards the far end of the workpiece. I was routing the first half then rotating the board 180* to do the other half or clamping it each time with 2 clamps. Doing this is prone to error and a huge nuisance to keep rotating each board. Much better to be able to rout each housing going from the right to the left all in one go. Several flag stops are used on the L/H fence to set the end of the board to when routing each housing giving exact repeatability on each bookcase or cabinet side. From the L/H side of the splinter guard there is 2440mm (8') of worktable, with 906mm (35.5") crosscut capacity, with an LR-32 guide rail for extra versatility.
Two rows of staggered 20mm holes at front of bench for Domino use to hold workpiece against. The 2 rows are set from the edge to allow a tiny overhang of the workpiece edge in the 2 most commonly sized pieces I use. Clamping of workpiece is not required and long pieces are quickly slid in to place.
A 36" Incra T-track for vertical clamping at front of bench because there's very little left on the two MFTs. Both the Festool squeeze and screw clamps just fit in the Incra T-track.
Now I'm thinking of modifying this again to make clamping of the MFS profile and workpiece really easy and quick with a second T-track.
Two rows of staggered 20mm holes at front of bench for Domino use to hold workpiece against. The 2 rows are set from the edge to allow a tiny overhang of the workpiece edge in the 2 most commonly sized pieces I use. Clamping of workpiece is not required and long pieces are quickly slid in to place.
A 36" Incra T-track for vertical clamping at front of bench because there's very little left on the two MFTs. Both the Festool squeeze and screw clamps just fit in the Incra T-track.
Now I'm thinking of modifying this again to make clamping of the MFS profile and workpiece really easy and quick with a second T-track.
