My new roughing mill

[jim royston]

After 13 years, I've gotten tired of rough planing. So I made this which will eliminate 75% of the hand planing.
I've run a strip with the first angle already planed, from a set of strips for another rod.
Add dust shield and vacuum connector and I'm good to go.

[Phil13]

Looks great. Is there a standard 60 router bit for this. I’ve never used a router much.


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[Phil13]

Oh, I see it’s a flat bit on the router.


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[kermit]

I like it, I like it alot. Use it, and learn from it.

[jim royston]

Basically the router bit takes the place of the plane blade. I have strips for a 2 tip rod that I’m running through it. We’ll see how it goes

[jim royston]

It’s alive!
I just finished a bundle of strips for a 2 tip rod. Very pleased with the results. Feed rate and control are critical.

[Middleton]

Nice ... thirteen years of rough planing. Your a lot more patient than I am as I could only get through a few rods and had to build a machine for roughing. I like the "Workmate" too, those things are great ;o)

[jim royston]

I designed it to bolt to my bench but it's better in my garage for purposes of cleanup. I got 2 workmates, one on the shop and this one in the garage, both indispensable

[Bill T]

I hand planed my first two rods from scratch. I milled a set of strips for my third rod while "evaluating" whether I wanted to purchase a roughing mill. Have never looked back.

[dbeerbower]

Do yourself a favor and build an enclosure for the roughing mill that allows you to pass the strips through the anvil and attach the vacuum to a hole in the bottom of the enclosure to suck up all the dust. It ends up being much cleaner with no dust to breathe.

[jim royston]

Actually this produces almost no dust. I've changed the position of the dust collector twice. This setup works very well. Thanks for your suggestion.