The router bit follows the path of a stylus as you trace the outlines of the original.
Diy wood router duplicator. The carriage rolls side to side on a steel pipe but also tilts on that pipe. A thinner shaft highlighted in red also allows the router and follower to pivot. Homemade router copier duplicator and homemade lathe. This copy lathe can create turnings using either templates or an existing wood turning.
This will be used for making your linear bearings and. 50 full color photos illustrations and. Now with anything you build you will need some tools to get the project done. The easy carver router duplicator plans.
The most complicated parts for the carriage are the side arms. 13 pages of step by step instructions. The easy carver build manual plans will show you how to build a quality router duplicator that is on par with some commercially available machines. Want do do some turning.
Part 1 of 2 of the build of my homemade router attachment for the lathe to enable easy duplicate woodturning. Dont want to spend big money on a lathe this system cost less then 20 dollar to build and it works great. One of these days when i have the funds i will build one of these cnc machines but till. Drilling some holes for the carriage.
The easy carver build manual plans will show you how to build a quality router duplicator that is on par with some. You can usually pick up a used drill press pretty cheap. Depending on which of the five model sizes you choose duplicators capable of carving from 200mm to a massive 600mm wide can be built. It uses a compact router on a counterbalanced floating carriage assembly to make a replica of an original carving.
For the last few years i have seen all these cool cnc projects from affordable rapid prototyping machines to laser cutters to hacked together cnc routers. The standard carving length is 800mm this can be customised to suit. Building the router copier router mount and carriage. Wood carving duplicator wood carving i marketing biz your a three dementional carving duplicator you can build in an afternoon from our plans.
Turn your router into a highly effective 3d wood copy carving machine. Mass produce any object in wood or stone. Great for furniture restoration find all your woodturning tools woodturning lathes woodturning kits and wood turning tools at woodcraft the. Jan 12 2018 explore tedhayton1 s board cnc duplicator on pinterest.
This shop built duplicator lets you recreate an object or pattern in wood with amazing detail. The router mount and carriage provides three degrees of freedom. You can build it as big or small as you desire.