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Pantographs are used in woodworking too! Put a router in place of a pen and have the stylus trace a jig and you're cutting accurate, repeatable tenons! Here's a
by 1-more 2y ago
Pantographs are used in woodworking too! Put a router in place of a pen and have the stylus trace a jig and you're cutting accurate, repeatable tenons! Here's an example https://woodgears.ca/pantorouter/setup.html https://woodgears.ca/pantorouter/setup.html
They're also used horizontally to trace letters/drawings into wood as in the traditional use of the pantograph https://woodgears.ca/pantograph/index.html https://woodgears.ca/pantograph/index.html
- 082349872349872 2y agoI've also seen a pantograph unit on a flame cutter; instead of manually tracing a jig it had a magnetic follower, so one created a maquette out of thin sheet metal by some other method, and then it would cut the same/scaled shape out of massive (5cm?) steel.
- nkozyra 2y agoProbably more fun than a CNC router, which is another DIY project I've seen popping up in lieue of more expensive options.