My 1st pie crust tilt top table #2

My 1st pie crust tilt top table #2

Were we left off was getting ready to make a jig to make a jig.

We start with a piece of melamine that's is approximately 32"x32"


next I take a straight edge and make lines corner to corner and then lines from the half way mark forming an X across the center of our melamine. Now I take a measurement half way between the other marks and draw a line between them.

Mistake… I was in a hurry and got my lines off so I did not have equal spacing.
When done with this step you should have 16 equal spaces.



Now I carefully drill a hole in the dead center of all the lines running through all the lines. It is important to have this hole parallel . So I took a piece of 2×4 and drilled a hole in the center to use as a drill guide.


Just barely drill a starter hole and then use the guide to drill no further than 7/16" deep



Now insert and glue short section of wood dowel into the hole. I used a 5/16 because that's what I had about 3" long.


In the next installment we will start the process of shaping our jig to make our supplemental jigs

Link to Charles Neil "The Maric of Routers
were I got this whole process from
http://charlesneilwoodworking.com/dvdplayer.php?id=61

Links to my pie crust table blogs

#1 http://lumberjocks.com/a1Jim/blog/10077

#2 http://lumberjocks.com/topics/9201#reply-94838

#3 http://lumberjocks.com/a1Jim/blog/10086

#4 http://lumberjocks.com/a1Jim/blog/10088

#5 http://lumberjocks.com/a1Jim/blog/10090

#6 http://lumberjocks.com/a1Jim/blog/10096

#7 http://lumberjocks.com/a1Jim/blog/10106

#8 http://lumberjocks.com/a1Jim/blog/10113

#9 http://lumberjocks.com/a1Jim/blog/10124