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    Not really Wokka. The router comes with a L shape bracket that is solid enough to be used as a guide but is just a little light to hold the router on its own. A more solid L bracket would be better. My little arrangement with the rope keeps the L bracket under light tension and holds the router quite steady.

    Yes, the job moves under the router and follows the pattern or rebate bit bearing. The base board is standard plastic coated builder concrete form ply. The upright strut is a Uni-strut piece bolted to some pine 45x90 under the form ply.

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    Great little trimmers, I wouldn't be without mine.
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    cool Simon didn't know that !

    @ Marcel no worries as long as you thing the jig is safe to use. As Simon suggested would be less movement of the router the closer it is to the support post
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    The jig is as safe (and solid) as any router can be. Without hacking up the guide that came with the router there is not much chance of getting it closer to the upright post. The 2mm thick Uni-strut is very solid with two 10mm bolts holding it up and another two 10mm bolts holding onto the 5mm thick outrigger. The router has its standard 6mm bolt holding the L bracket to it within some vertical guides that are part of the router, and the L bracket and the outrigger are held fast with another two 6mm bolts. It aint moving, and if it gets loose I'll know a long long time before things start falling on the floor. The rope just steadies the top of the router motor from minor flexing of the L bracket and outrigger structure when the job is in contact with the router bit. Minor height adjustments can still easily be made via the lock clamp and toothed adjustment wheel on the front of the router. If major changes in height are needed then the rope comes off and the outrigger height is changed to suit the new needed height.

    The Makita model router/edge trimmer I'm using has speed control built in. Varies the bit speed from 10k to 30k rpm. Around 14k to 16k seems the best speed for the bit I'm currently using. The bit is a two 12mm blade 35mm with a 29mm bearing so I get a 3mm rebate. Really I need a 30.4mm bearing to get the rebate the perfect depth for how I want to do this binding job. There are a few local places near here I can go to get what I'm after.

    I probably should have included the Tele body in the photos. The table is 600mm wide by 450mm deep so there is enough space either side of the router to comfortably rest a guitar body.

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