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Here's a few moments of the Florida Guitar Makers Assoication meeting highlighting Keith's Pantograph.
I'm getting ready to make mine!

That is awesome Chris, when is the tut coming. I want one.

Probably after I make mine. I ask Keith if he wanted to build me one and he said he wasn't going to build them and that it's easy enough to build. This pantograph can do alot more then just meets the eye by it's design. I'll get into that when I make one. You should see his motorized kerfing machine. I have a short video of it but something was loose on it when I did video it and Keith ask me not to show it and he'll put out a video on it later. He is building them and they are for sale.

I would be interested in making something like that, but a little larger to duplicate necks. Like you mentioned in the video if you tie the two top pieces together you could do some 3d duplications. Thats cool. It does look simple to construct and not very costly.

Nice pantograph, nice video despite the multiple conversations in the background.

Nicest of all was to see Keith's smiling face again after far too long an absence from the OLF. Welcome back, Bro!

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JJ
Napa, CA
http://www.DonohueGuitars.com

I'm with you J.J. Keith was here at the beginning of OLF and have missed him a bunch. Great guy and heck of a builde guitars and tools. Hope to see more of him. I remember when he showed this machine a few years ago (well maybe more than a few). Didn't Lance get one? Is Pete Shulte related to Paul who was also one of the originals around here and also a great guy. Lived in N.H.

Well you know how those meetings are. Everyone having fun and alot of BSing always going on. I really was shooting it for myself and since it's not too bad I'd figured I share it. I'll probably take it down when I make a tut on it. It was a fun time.

I'd like one of these also. Look forward to seeing the tutorial.

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Jimmy Caldwell
http://www.caldwellguitars.com

Thanks guys for all the warm comments. I'd like to take a moment to praise Chris Paulick.
I think all of us are willing to share but sometimes lack the means or just don't take the time.
Not only is Chris a volcano of ideas and talent he is driven to share everyting he knows and
has developed through his videos a way to present a wealth of information for all of us.
Thanks to this forum and the FGMA I get to pick his brain.
So three cheers for CHRIS

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Keith MacKenzie
Location: Florida
"To err is human to really screw up you need tools"

You are much too kind my friend. I enjoy picking you brain like wise.

I'll step in there and also give Chris a two-thumbs up. He is always so pleasant and helpful.

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www.ziegenfussguitars.com

Someone definitely needs to make up a bunch of those.

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Jim Hansen

Man,That is a cool jig Keith. A minature duplicator! I have got to make one of these
for me inlays !Too bad we couldn't see it actually cutting .Thanks for filming it Chris.
Yep,Paulick is a generous soul ! No doubt about that.

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Anderson Guitars
Clearwater,Fl. 33755

I think I'll start on mine Sunday or Monday. I want to think about a couple modification I might make to it that are small. I got some LED lights on sale from HF that I might mount on it and a vacuum hose to the hand piece. I taped one up to my dremel for routing inlay cavities and I like it a lot. Keeps the area clean. Wondering if adding vacuum clamping should be an option? Maybe some speakers and a beer holder

Awesome, thanks Keith and Chris.

Could you use that for bridge saddle slots, or for duplicating your peghead design as well? Probably only worth it if you're making a whole batch....

Helpful..Yes

Just kidding Chris.

This is a very cool jig and I could see potential for doing a lot of different things with it.

I don't know if you want to slot a bridge with it as the hand piece isn't made for that. You would want something larger.
But most definately the head stock or any inlay.
Here's the cool thing about this design. The drawer slides will extend off the base to the left depending on what size slides you use. That allows you to put a neck with the head plate already on there and route the cavity or you could also extend the cutting arm longer to the side to reach across a body if need be. Here's another cool thing Keith told me. You can set up or make some type of rotary vise and a indexing plate and you could route a pattern around the field ring in a rosette. Say you had an inlay pattern of a vine that had three pieces that repeated ever 30 degrees in a field of ebony. Well you could make a template of the 30 degrees and route it and turn the vise 30 degrees and so on. You all getting the picture? Like I said there is more to it the meets the eye at first glance. It also would allow you to cut dots from whatever shell you wanted to and what size you want. It's an inexpensive duplicator for inlay that is very flexible. Just think about it. You could hand cut your inlay pieces for a fret board vine and make a fret board mold and put the pieces into the mold and then use the template to route a maple board and not have to worry about gaps in maple or route rosettes into the spruce on a top. If you are going to repeat inlays then you just make your templates once and then it's just duplicating it . There are things that may still need to be done by hand like cutting sharp corners but the bulk of the work could be done with this. Certainly a time saver like any other jig. Just some food for thought.

Keith, Chris and the FGMA,

I built a duplicarver which started out as Keith intended, for inlays, then I made it bigger so that I can cut binding channels and in the future duplicate an entire neck. I also use it to route the truss rod channel. These things are great, and save a ton of time for repetitive tasks, like Keith said, a manual CNC without the programming.

One modification that I added is the use of parallel movement via a parrallelogram attachment to the linear slides, which enables me to cut binding channels and inlay without losing a 90 degree angle between the router bit and the table.

I use two different "heads" , one for inlay, and the other for most other operations. I am going to post some pics...this duplicarver does require welding, but I suppose other materials and connections can be used.

Anyway, great job Keith!
Now I need to take some pics... I will post them.

Chuck

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The picture of the binding head shows a colt router mounted in a bicycle fork to allow 360 degree movement while maintaining a perpendicular orientation to the table (got the idea from Olsen's website).

The inlay head shows a drill chuck with a pin in it, for actual detail inlays I use a pin vise like Keith an put it in the chuck.

The frame is made of sign posts and steel gas pipe.

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