Hi folks,
since several days a friend of mine and myself building two Joes 2006 R2 in metric size. I had to change the original plans of course since the needed MDF plates are not available in 1/2" in Germany.
Fortunately the bearings and the rods are available, so we expect no big problems in assembling the machines at the end.
I started by building the originals from the plans in plywood. It took quite a while but helped a lot by building the parts at the end.
As a next step I cut all the parts from MDF and routed everything with my router table. Since I had no 12mm bit for routing the slots for assembling all the party I had to cut the slots later with a smaller bit. I didn't want to use a scroll saw for several reasons.
At the end of day two we finished 68 parts. On router bit broke that day but everything else worked quiet well.
After sanding all the parts we could assembly the two tables and a part from the gantry.
To be continued...
Greetings
Cornelius