My version of Brice Burrell's line boring setup.

[Chris Hughes]

While at router class last year Brice showed us an ingenious way to set up the lr32 with the parallel guides to allow for more times savings by fixing the jig to a table and moving the work piece instead of the rail.  I thought the setup was awesome but never got to try this before this particular project. 

My set up is basically the same as Brice's but I had a couple of variable that I had to work around.  First problem was that this project is in imperial measurements and second that there were two different height panels.  The result being that I had to allow slop at the top of the panels while allowing for accurate indexing between the two different sized panels.
 

 

[Chris Hughes]

Is that all the bigger that pic will go?  If it is I will use my camera tonight and shoot it again.  Yhat picture is too small if not.

 

[NVA_WW]

Your picture is a little dot on my screen.  I would love to see a bigger picture.

 

[Ken Nagrod]

Chris is now doing only avatar size pictures.  I have no problem viewing this through my jeweler's loupe.  [tongue]

 

[Administrator_JSVN]

Hopefully, Chris will post a larger image. In the mean time, here's what he's referring to. It's a video of Brice explaining using the parallel guides to speed production with the LR 32 system.

Festool parallel guide and LR32 guide rail used as a jig for 32mm panels

 

[Julian Tracy]

Cool - I just picked up the parallel guide setup with extensions and the LR setup.  Found a local guy that had never used them and bought it all for 25% discount.  That's a decent deal to begin with, but then he let me trade him my no-hole rail for a LR rail, so that makes it a better deal not having to buy a rail.  It's a 42" rail, but with it, I'll be able to mill the slots in larger rails in my milling machine.

Looking forward to using this stuff, especially the Par guides.

The LR system I'm glad to have, but in general, I'm no fan of tons of holes going up the sides of built-ins - they're pretty ugly imo.  I like to have clients commit to where the shelves need to be so that all the holes aren't necessary.

Obviously it'll see some use for those clients that can't commit though...

Julian

 

[peter halle]

You don't have to do every hole.  Skipping holes is permissible and achievable.  In fact Mirko did a post here many moons ago where he used colored dots to mark his rails to mark holes for different standard sized cabinets.

Food for thought perhaps.

 

[Chris Hughes]

I build my euro style cabinets kind of like Ikea's.  I could cut out some of my holes for this job because I designed this for a commercial client so I know where they want their hardware.  However, I like flexibility. 

 

[Alan m]

You don't have to do every hole.  Skipping holes is permissible and achievable.  In fact Mirko did a post here many moons ago where he used colored dots to mark his rails to mark holes for different standard sized cabinets.

Food for thought perhaps.

peter have you a link to this post i could not find it

 

[peter halle]

You don't have to do every hole.  Skipping holes is permissible and achievable.  In fact Mirko did a post here many moons ago where he used colored dots to mark his rails to mark holes for different standard sized cabinets.

Food for thought perhaps.

peter have you a link to this post i could not find it

as requested : lr-32 another thread

Peter