Cnc dovetail fixtures
Or buy a dovetail jig and whip them out with a router instead. So, it’s only natural that, sooner or later, you’re going to want to learn to make these interlocking, timelessly popular joints.Īt that point you’ll face a choice: learn to saw and chop them by hand - the classic method.
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And, in spite of the fact that we woodworkers have other joinery options that also form equally rugged connections, they just don’t get the same nod of approval as dovetails. There’s a truism at work here: dovetails are one of the calling cards of high craftsmanship. In the same way, it’s hard not to fawn over a blanket chest adorned with through dovetails on its corners. As you can see, we can stop it against this edge or we could have bored a hole in the bottom of this part for location.When examining a piece of furniture, even non-woodworkers will often open drawers and search for that pleasing interplay of pins and tails that mark dovetail joints. You can watch the video in which this part was being machined, but I think you will be impressed with the vise. I just wanted to go through some of the features of this Flex vise, load this part up on there. What I’m going to do now is that we are going to marry this video up with one in which this part was being machined. The reason we have those locations is so that the vise can be used on both sides, that is what makes this unique. We also have an end stop and these end stops can be used in one of four locations. It also has multiple location possibilities where you use the Xzertz™ Retractable Locating Dowel Pin the retractable dowel pins they come in and out, so you can use a hole or a slot to locate here. This is reversible, so we made it, so we can take it out and reverse it if you wanted to. You can see that the pusher here has a gripper on the back which allows it to be used in tandem with other dovetail vises, we can then drive them from both sides and it can be used to hold parts, both as a straight vise or as a dovetail vise. Take-Up HolesĪs you can see, it has the take-up holes for the invert-a-bolt fasteners and it can be used in one of our modular fixtures and can be directly connected to the fixture without any bolts or clamps. The fact that it can be used not just as a dovetail vise but as a straight vise makes it an important addition to the products that are out there in the world. There are some features about it that make it unique and patent pending.
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So, what we did was that we developed a vise that grips more material but creates a much more stable environment for you to use and what we found in our own use of this Flex vise is that it is very robust and a very good overall vise to use.
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Now, at the time, we didn’t have one, but, they mentioned that it was not very stable, and I thought to myself that we can do better. I was walking through a customer’s plant, a large aerospace company, and they pointed over to where they were running a competitor’s dove tail vise. I remember how I came to the point I wanted to develop this in the first place. It’s not very heavy but it can do a lot of good work for you because it is a rugged device. We have talked about this Flex vise a lot now, but I want to bring it up again because our guys love it.