🌳Woodturning - Paul Howard Fluting/Router Jig 4 - Elusive Latticework

[@danceswithaardvarks3284]

Thanks for making this series an sharing your trials and tribulations in making this type of work.I'm currently making a fluting jig so am finding the information in this series invaluable. I'm a bit of a router nut and have cut many circular, eliptical and other shaped pieces and would like to offer an observation on the end grain tearout problem in cutting the rings on the back of the piece. I haven't watched the whole series yet so it could be something you figure out later on. The tear out problem that you experienced on this piece is to do with feed rate, which: a)does need to vary as the grain direction changes to avoid tear out b) is way too fast with a running lathe and is the likely cause of the exaggerated chatter in your test. The lesson that I have learned from this is that I will need to make a modified circle cutting jig to route the rings. Thanks again.

[@stewartfurini]

NIce work, William. It's great watching your learning curve with this jig. Nice colouring work, especially in the middle. A whole day colouring over a whole day sanding any time!! Cheers.

[@WilliamHuntLatheCraft]

Stewart Furini Thanks Stewart, yes I agree colouring is great fun. Although in this case the final colour reminded me of the naphtha treated pallets back in the 70’s! I’ve got to May more attention to planning...

[@stevenmoore7334]

Good job on demonstrating the jig William, i have made a few lattice bowls fairly recently myself us a home made jig to hold my laminate trimmer. The things i have learned in my learning curve was 1: its very important that the bowl/platter be turned to a uniform thickness within 1mm tolerance.2: Always come from centre out when routing as the rotation of the bit forces the router down onto lathe bed and not wanting to climb if you feed from outside to inside. 3: Use a dense wood and a down cut spiral router bit to more or less eliminate the fuzzys. I use a 3mm bit and 3mm parting tool as they are easier to use with less stress on router cutting. Also if you remove the last 20mm or so on the outer rim at the back of the bowl/platter same depth as your parting tool it looks more pleasing, i find the ogee shape really shows of the inside better. look forward to seeing more of your work with the jig.

[@WilliamHuntLatheCraft]

Thank you Steven for this very useful information. Everthing you have to say here makes perfect sense and Im try to remember all these good points. Thanks again.

[@mamabearssheshedtracykeato6941]

That platter really came out wonderfully. I truly was curious about this project because of John Clothier. I will go back and look at your previous videos. There are so many possibilities with that jig! Many blessings to you!

[@WilliamHuntLatheCraft]

Tracy thanks for your comments. There are not too many people sharing information about routing jig, so i thought I'd rise to the challenge. Hopefully next one will be fault-free ! (I wish)...

[@peterleffler2062]

I have to hand it to you William - you don't mess around! I think it looks good and I couldn't quite work out what you weren't happy with, but then I don't know what you intended! On the sanding front I don't know if it would work but if you adapted a reciprocating saw blade to be similar to your sanding batten then you could maybe speed up the process? That is to say you use the reciprocating action of the saw to move your abrasive in the groove at many times hand speed with little effort. Small cordless reciprocating saws start at around £50 FWIW.

[@WilliamHuntLatheCraft]

Peter Leffler thanks for your comments Peter, much appreciated. I messed up the router cuts because the thickness of the platter was not uniform, not easy to see in the pictures. I tried to go back and cut the thicker part deeper making a mess of it. Otherwise it would have been a good piece. I think the reciprocating saw idea may work, at least for straight cuts, but curved router cuts look better. I’m looking at several options to take care of sanding, but no solutions yet.... but watch this space!

[@KeithBarrowat54a]

Thanks for this video William,very informative.Something which I am very interested in having a go at.Cheers,Keith 😀

[@WilliamHuntLatheCraft]

Hi keith and thanks for you comments. Im having great fun with this, a good balance between a challenge and seeing useful progress, got to work out how to avoid all that sanding, boring...!

[@Mccalebsanding]

Great video! Wish I could find somewhere in US to buy the fluting jig.

[@MikeWaldt]

A really interesting and informative video William, you've learnt a lot on your journey with the jig, as have we. I personally think the lattice bowl looks superb, and there is no way that I would have the patience to attempt it. Take care Mike

[@WilliamHuntLatheCraft]

Thanks as ever Mike. Its the abrasive work that is time consuming but Im determined to find some shortcuts..!

[@taanggg]

Hi, where can I find those tools?

[@SteveTwoodturning]

Nice job William, this has got me thinking I must admit. I'm wondering can this be done without using a router at all..... I may be experimenting myself !! I wonder if you would have sprayed the piece green first before doing the routed latis whether it would have given a more unique look ? Some nice tips and a good demo mate. Thanks for sharing !!

[@WilliamHuntLatheCraft]

Templeboy Turnings thanks for your comments and if there’s a way to do this without a router Im sure you will be the one to find it Steve! As for the colouring, yes that’s a great idea and I’ll use it on my next piece . Having great fun with this jig, it’s uses only limited by your imagination.

[@mark4tucker]

Way to much work for what you get.