Saturday, October 10, 2009
Scribe With A Router
Toolmonger: "To get a piece to fit an irregular wall, you can scribe the contour of the wall onto the work piece, make the cut with your jigsaw, touch it up with a belt sander, and check it against the wall — then repeat the process until you get it perfect or you give up and call it “good enough.” Rather than go through all that trouble, the QuickScribe lets you cut the piece with a router in one step."
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The quickscribe wheel seems like a useful gadget, but I wonder how useful it really is. If you let the router turn even a little bit then you'll still have to go back and touch it up later. If instead of using the wheel you just use a circular router base with the bit at the center then while you don't have the ease of motion a wheel would provide you no longer have to worry about the router turning as you use it. If you have to scribe things to fit often then you'll develop the practice to keep the router straight and you'll appreciate the small decrease in effort required, but for most of us will it really be worth it?
The scribe looks like a useful attachment for your router. I haven't run into a situation that there is a need for this type of device. Although I haven't encountered this yet, I am sure there will be a time to use it on a project. It's unfortunate that there is a limited list of compatible routers, but that will be solved in time.
Routers strike me as dangerous enough as it is, I'm not sure how much I like the idea of changing how people handle them. I feel that changing the orientation of the cutting area is just begging for an accident, regardless for how careful you are. Also, Tom raises a good point in that this is probably one of those tools you won't use often enough to really appreciate, and on top of that you're possibly robbing yourself of a skill set. The fact that they're also not universal, and probably won't work for older models just decreases the real probably of getting excited about something like this in my case.
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