My FIL says he can get me the pillow bearings and shafts for free, when I get some free time I might take him up on his offer. It can do double duty as a slot mortiser and horizontal router table. If anyone has built this please let me know how it worked.

BTW the plans are from Bill Hylton's book Router Magic.

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Hi Colin,

You may to check what this guy has done.

Multi slot mortising machine

very interesting site

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T15+3 2.6Li Set, MFT/3, CTM26E, OF1400, TS55, KS-120

Oak,

Thanks for the link, looks like I need to look around some more before I settle on an idea.

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Colin,

Jerry Work shows how to mount an MFK700 horizontally on an MFT. It might be feasible with other routers. It's at: The Dovetail Joint --> Tutorials --> MFK700 tutorial (1/2 way down page) --> Page 7.

Regards,

Dan.

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"You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’" George Bernard Shaw

That guy is one clever Canuck!

Dan,
That looks like an ideal solution for a horizontal router table if you own a MFT and you could probably modify this idea to use another router, unfortunately I do not own a MFT.

If anyone comes across any slot mortising/horizontal router table designs I would be eager to look at them as this is a project I would like to pursue this summer when I have the time.

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Ohhhhhh.... I need to build one of these. Only in my case it's a great solution for doing inlays in drum shells. I can put just a little pressure on top of the shell to keep it flat on the table as I rotate it but gravity will do most of the work and all I have to do is get the depth right on the router.

if you build one let us know how it works out for you...................

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very interesting stuff.

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Greg Behlen
Waterlox Corp.