So I am on holiday at my parents house where my fater has a great woodworking shop. I realized I could use the opportunity to make myself some nice templates for routing my future fins. Sure wish I had brought the fins with me!
If anyone is willing it would be a great help if someone could give me the dimensions of the fin box and the flange. Length width and depth. A scale picture or tracing would help with the curves as well.
I searched high and low for this and didn’t find it. Sorry to ask a question that has seen so much attention. Please don’t respond by telling me to go buy the jig…it’s not worth the money to me when I can do it by hand easily, I just want to speed things up by making myself a little jig. Thanks…Ben
As a noob, I thought the futures install kit is pretty ingenious and makes for a snug fit. The plate stays put, the 2 collars make the 2 different depths easier and the pre set bit on the router is a big help for the clueless like me. Still, if I did not have expert help for my for my first rout & install, I’m sure I’d still be mucking them up and could see my self throwing everything against the wall.
With that, I did a scan of a box template I drew a few minutes ago. I did a test print in landscape at 100%, and it came out exactly to scale.
Am I crossing any lines by doing this? I don’t think the people at futures would mind…?
Bud, Thanks so much for spending some of your time to help me. Would love to have the scanned image, if you e-mailed it or just included it with another post that would be cool.
I know what you mean about learning to use the system. I’ve been doing woodworking all my life and have definitely mucked up my share of projects learning to use my router and other power tools. Making jigs sort of becomes a way of life with repetitive tasks. Anyway…thanks again…
Things went pretty well. I just used spray adhesive to glue the printouts to the some melamine, clamped straight strips of wood along the sides to run my templating router bit down and freehanded the ends. Also used a small round file to clean up a few spots. Definitely recommend this to others to save a ton of money if you are like me and already have a router.
