02-15-2016, 08:19 AM
Saw a guy on YouTube do this, but he was using a narrow piece of pegboard and moving it over each time. I decided to use a full piece of pegboard and I'll save it for whenever I need to to do another top one of these days.
First up was to make a base for my Fein 1800 out of 3/8" baltic birch. I epoxied in 1/4" steel pins to match up to the pegboard grid. By using the centering pin it was a cinch to get this right.
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Here is the peg board ready to go on top of a sheet of 3/4" MDF. I have a 1/8" spoil board below that so I don't cut into the bench top. I also put lines on the pegboard where the holes were to be drilled. As long as my base plate (which was 8" x 8") fell into a square, I couldn't mis-drill a hole. After 212 holes, would be easy to get complacent and screw one up. I found the grid to be helpful
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Here we go. Plunge, plunge and plunge some more.....
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And here it is. 212 holes later, my finished MFT top. So $30 for the sheet of MDF, $30 for the Bosch 20mm bit and $15 for the pegboard. $75 for the first go around and now if I ever need to replace, $30 for each sheet of MDF.
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Testing square cuts with PARF dogs and I couldn't be more pleased with how square it was.
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To elevate my MFT top to be able to use clamps through the holes, I simply used Rockler's cookies with posts. The posts sit in the 3/4" dog holes one my work benches. Pretty simple.
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First up was to make a base for my Fein 1800 out of 3/8" baltic birch. I epoxied in 1/4" steel pins to match up to the pegboard grid. By using the centering pin it was a cinch to get this right.
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Here is the peg board ready to go on top of a sheet of 3/4" MDF. I have a 1/8" spoil board below that so I don't cut into the bench top. I also put lines on the pegboard where the holes were to be drilled. As long as my base plate (which was 8" x 8") fell into a square, I couldn't mis-drill a hole. After 212 holes, would be easy to get complacent and screw one up. I found the grid to be helpful
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Here we go. Plunge, plunge and plunge some more.....
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And here it is. 212 holes later, my finished MFT top. So $30 for the sheet of MDF, $30 for the Bosch 20mm bit and $15 for the pegboard. $75 for the first go around and now if I ever need to replace, $30 for each sheet of MDF.
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Testing square cuts with PARF dogs and I couldn't be more pleased with how square it was.
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To elevate my MFT top to be able to use clamps through the holes, I simply used Rockler's cookies with posts. The posts sit in the 3/4" dog holes one my work benches. Pretty simple.
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