Saturday afternoon I left a phone message on the AKEDA tech support answering machine, asking the bolt size for mounting the jig to a ply or MDF base. Wasn't expecting to hear anything back from them 'til Monday.
Surprise - Kevan, the guy who designed the jig called me back - on a Sunday! He apologised for the inconvenience and was going to send them to me on Monday. I just needed the size, which he gladly gave me - M6-30. A quick trip to my local Ace Hardware store, I needed light bulbs anyway, and I had my four M6-30 phillips head screws, about fifty cents each and I was good to go.
The jig is now clamped to my workbench - a box to keep all the parts, and there are a lot of them, will be the first project to be done with this jig - half blinds, probably in
1/2" stock. Will go through Mr. Lucas's pages on how he did his box using the Akeda.
Will report back as I play with this puppy. First impressions
- beefy as hell - maybe 20 pounds, good solid support of the router, "fingers" snap in and stay put, no router weight on them at all and the clamping mechanism is pretty slick, with sand paper on one "jaw" to keep parts from sliding around.
More later.
charile b
It was great to be able to discuss this jig with the person who came up with the idea and got it made. Turns out he worked on the design of the Leigh DT jig earlier on in his career.