The PantoRouter™ Joinery Machine Core Skills Training

[@eideticgoone7035]

I've come up with a way to set up your adjustable angle fence for compound angle tenons which requires no special angle jig, and may be even faster. I noticed that the work piece face which is routed is always set up parallel to the front face of the table. This fact is true whether or not the joint requires table tilt or fence skewing angles. The difference is simply in the amount of table overhang required. Simply add an offset your front face stops to set the amount of overhang. Clamp down the work piece against the offset stops where the point of the special centering bit touches your "layout point". Now align your fence to the work piece and you are done. No jig required. A simple offset stop could be made from your current front face stop by replacing the T-bolt with a longer T-bolt, and adding an overhang spacer sandwiched between the table front and the plastic stop. I think this works for any situation, regardless of the angles involved.

[@macsheldon]

The true beauty of the PantoRouter joinery machine is the versatility to accommodate different work flows. Watch for a new accessory we've been working on for a while. It should be here the middle to end of June. Happy PantoRouting!

[@tylervollick6634]

If you were making repeated parts with the same tenon, do you have to reset the depth stop for each tenon? how do you make sure the end length (shoulder to shoulder) will be the exactly the same for every part? Thanks for the demo! Super cool.

[@macsheldon]

It's super-fast and easy to set the depth of cut for one or a series of tenons. The How-To Guide has good suggestions for depth of cut.

[@macsheldon]

Please see the videos using the Swing Stop. Please give us a call to answer all of your questions.

[@macsheldon]

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[@Absfor30]

Is this the PantoRouter that Matthais Wandel designed and developed out of wood?

[@macsheldon]

Yes, Matthias invented the machine 11 years ago and has helped us to commercialize the all-metal PantoRouter Joinery Machine. It's a terrific tool for mortise and tenon, box joints and dovetails plus a whole lot more. We've added numerous accessories over the years. and continue to innovate where Matthias left off. You can his plans from his website and build yours out of wood, or go to our website and buy this fully-developed commercial version complete with router, bits, templates for 154 different sizes of M&T, variably-spaced dovetails and box joints.

[@chriscrowe3527]

Tenons are usually centred on the stock, but the mortise is not. The Pantorouter makes that easy as well. I’;’d suggest the next video you do shows how to do a mortice in a leg where the rail/apron is flush to the table leg - useful when you are doing a leg and apron for a work bench. Then do one where there is a 1/8” reveal - (legs are proud of the rail by 1/8”), for hall tables and such. I think to get the former, you do a centred tenon, and then do the mortise at the same setting as the centred tenon, and the latter you do by raising the template by an additional 1/4 inch.

[@macsheldon]

Good idea. Both are super-simple on the PantoRouter joinery machine and these would make a great Tech Tip. We're on it!

[@rlevitta]

Is John Henry any relation to John Phillip…Sousa?

[@macsheldon]

Not that he knows of