Hello everyone, I am about three weeks out on my machine, hopefully, and have been looking for information on holding and cutting vertically. I have finished my table with a vise on one end, now just need some info going from drawing to production. I don’t like the “dog-bone” look on box joints, a…

I do have parameters that drive stock thickness, and board dimensions (length, width, height). Also have parameters for the number of pins, the width of the pins, and the angle of the dovetail bit. I followed this video tutorial to set up the main box and parameter-driven design, and then made a man…

I sold my Porter-Cable Omni-jig but now I’m wondering if I should have hung on to it and scavenged parts for a vertical board and clamp system on the Onefinity. I downloaded the JointCAM demo software and will give it a try. Making box joints and dovetails is something I would like to do with the C…

I’m still new to JointCam and there’s definitely a bit of a learning curve between the software and setting up your workpiece. I made my first (non-test) half blind dovetails tonight. Not perfect but as good or better than I could do on my dovetail jig. This will be much faster than the jig once …

Excellent. Please keep us updated with any findings, troubles and top tips. I am also just venturing into Jointcam and joints.

When you get a chance could you share some photos of your table with the removable section. I’m looking at how I can incorporate a removable section into my table which I have yet to build, just have the 44x64 Kreg frame and legs assembled so far. Still need to build the top. I have the Journeyman …

Hopefully these help: [20210814_135902] [20210814_135918] [20210814_140012] [20210814_140202] [20210814_141157]

Where did the vertical board come from in photo #4 ? I mounted using a piano hinge but It’s not there in the 3 previous photos. Maybe you were in the process of building this when you took the photos. The removable section looks to be about a foot deep.

If you look closely you’ll notice that the top board is on top of the original wasteboard - I created a 2-piece unit tied together with a piano hinge - I just drop it on top of my existing wasteboard. I created a pair of spacers to ensure I can get everything square. Takes me less than 5 min to conv…

Ok, I see how it works. Very nice. Just pull out the flat section and drop the hinged board on top of everything and let the vertical section hang down and you clamp it in position. This is along the lines of what I want to do but my front rail will be the front upper rail of the Kreg bench not a 2…

Your shop looks like mine! :slight_smile: I recently retired - I was supposed to have “all sorts of time” to clean and organize - still definitely a work in progress… There are lots of different ways of approaching getting something held verticle - for me, I didn’t want to permanently lose space,…

Box Joints and Dovetails

Original/PRO Series (Buildbotics) (Gen 1)

MikeH (Michael Hentges) November 19, 2021, 4:51pm 33

Hopefully these help:

Allowance For Vertical Milling

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