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Yandles 08 Two wooden plane makers show their work. David Barron uses his innovative wooden dovetail cutting guide. Here
Router Boss video
Popular Woodworking have made a short video of the new Router Boss being demonstrated at the IWF Atlanta show. Be the first to see it in action here.
Some Photos David Nevin has sent some interesting photos of his work. Take a look here
WoodRat Henry has returned to the Company in charge of marketing and customer relations. Welcome back!
Photography I currently use an Olympus E3 and an Olympus E510. I would love to hear from other owners of these models to share any user tips. I do not wish to enter into the relative merits of other makes though!! If there is anyone at all then perhaps I could set up a discrete page on this site. It is good to go against the flow sometimes.
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Pierre's quick way to convert from imperial to metric drill sizes for woodworkers. On the tips page here
Philly Planes A gorgeous little smoothy! Read all about it here
Chris Dahl is the first to send in a report on his dust extraction mods for his new type WoodRat. Here
Bob P. Has sent in some photos of his spacious garage/workshop and ingenious mobile WoodRat cabinet. Here
Wanted Workshop Photos of your WoodRat set-up/workshop. I will post them up on a separate page. here
Ratters Reunited A page to post your info, interests, locality and how you can be contacted. Please post in a little photo and build a community! Here
The Revised WoodRat Channel Filtering through to new purchasers is the revised channel with extra slots. Generally I am very impressed but there are some provisos. Read all about it here
Finger joints A lengthy discourse by Peter Smith on how to cut very accurate finger and other joints on the 'Rat. Takes into account the router bit tolerance and glue line and uses a cursor and scale system. here
Drop-Down and Frame Mounts.
Piet in Holland fixes his 'Rat to a skinny frame and also makes a space saving roof mount. Here
Angela's Rat Bag An innovative idea to prevent dropping those valuable router bits here
A Universal Work-holder Originally designed as a holder for small work, this design has proven to be more universal than first thought and simple to make too. here . Now updated with scaled Sketchup drawings available.
A replacement Crank I made a new crank with greater throw from bits in the parts bin here.
Eliminator RC router chuck The trials and tribulations here
3way digital scale kit Part 1 with the scale as a North/South set-up and Part2 mounting East/West plus other uses here
Fractional caliper reviewed here
Tony's Half-Blind Dovetail cutting method in the drawer dovetail page here.
Beau Dobson's Two pages of Mods and an industrial strength tenon jig. Something very different!! Here
Johnboy has devised another way to cut dovetails on his WoodRat. Still in development and requires a home made plate. Follow this link for details and pictures.
ble for download now is the current brochure from TheCraftsmangallery. In pdf format it contains some excellent illustrations. Watch this space and revisit in early July to see some super additions to their portfolio! Get it here New version available now!
Tony's Ruler Trick A quickly made East/West scale made from a cut down alloy ruler. Here
Frank's Box A small article on how Frank Gorrell made an inlaid box inspired by an article by John Bailey here
Greg's curved foot Jig Greg has designed a simple 'Rat add-on jig to allow him to cut rounded ends on his work. To see how he made rounded feet for a cabinet go here
Apologies In order to keep this site going I have to try to attract at least some support towards costs. I am trying out some Google Ads for a little while. Each click on an Advert will result in me possibly receiving a miniscule payment. Every little helps! I hope you like the new "lick of paint" Would you like to advertise on this site? If so them please email me.
Video
Dave R. that master of SketchUp has made a first draught animated CAD drawing demonstrating the "flip and flop" method of cutting tails on the 'Rat. I believe Dave's little Windows AVI animation to be superb. This is a first attempt and when he fully gets to grips with the method and finds the time could perhaps be persuaded to produce more. At the moment this file is about 3.4 mb in size but could possibly be reduced with some more work and a format change.
Why not download it here (avi 3.4meg) or here (quicktime 900k) and send in your comments?
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Door wedges In the gallery page. Making use of scrap ends and nothing to do with the 'Rat! |
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Photos A new page here for all pictures "WoodRat" Please send or tell me about any 'Rat pictures that could be included here. Lets make this a huge gallery. Newbie or expert we want to see, so don't be shy.
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Where are you? Looking through my web stats I can see some unusual country data from the visitors here. Why not drop me an email for interest sake? I can log such places as USA, Alaska, Germany, France, Israel, Holland, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, South Africa, Cornwall, Brazil, Sweden, Norway, Chile, Iceland, Finland, Spain. If enough people reply I will post a little table of worldwide visitors.
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