Hi all,

Just thought I would post this as a bit of fun.

There will be a small prize of some small items of workshop tooling to the first person to correctly guess EXACTLY what I am making. The answer must be very specific.

I have started with some 3" lengths of 3/8" square mild steel and milled the corners off with a 45 degree dovetail cutter as below:

I am making approximately 50 of these items and there will be the same amount in 5/16" square material. Obviously I am doing all the items in batches to keep the machine setups to a minimum.

If no one gets it with this photo I will post the next operation when I do it.

THIS will NOT be ready for Xmas!!

I hope everyone has a great Xmas despite what is going on and would like to thank all the people on here who have been so helpful to me over the year.

Regards, Martin

Had not given that any thought!

Let say two guesses per photo?

Just the first person to get it wins I suppose!

Martin

Mark is the winner, that did not take long!

I have lots of incomplete Stanley 71 & Record 071 hand routers which sell very well with full sets of 3 cutters.

Please PM me with your address and I’ll send you the small prize after Xmas.

Regards, Martin

Hi All,

Here are the next operations completed. Original shown for comparison.

Rounded over the upper end of the shank; cut the groove for the adjusting screw and tapped the bottom M4 for those cutters that have the removeable double bevelled cutter. Other will just have a silver soldered or tig'd cutter to the ends

The split collet was a great success and worked well.

This job is very repetitive and gets a bit boring so I do a few at a time then something else.

I am not sure how to best get the 2 1/2 degree bevel at the bottom, will probably put the part in a vee block and make an angled fence on the disc sander. Just hop the screw will still line up OK

Cheers, Martin