Online Extras From Issue #144? Warner Fence
mattk41
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Ive been meaning to build Pat Warner’s precision router fence for a long time…like 10 years?! The magazine article from Sept/Oct 2000 makes mention of a hardware list available on the FWW website. And no matter how I query the site search engine I cannot find it. Interestingly the is an email address and encourage to the contact John White at FWW or Pat Warner directly if you have challenges with the build. But, I believe John White is no longer with FWW and it seems Pat Warner passed away a few years ago.
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Can not assist on your specific question but I built a Warner fence many years ago and there is no special hardware needed that can't be found in any well sorted store.
I recommend you skip the split and moving fronts and instead go for the curtain style fence that Warner invented a few years after the fence article. Or even better make two fronts, one traditional one and one curtain style. His version #2 fence can be seen here https://i.pinimg.com/736x/01/43/a6/0143a694f3952e43cb90366c958db1ba--router-table-fence-wood-router.jpg
If you're interested in my version of the fence (which is a Warner version#2 copy) I have a video about it (link below) where I also explain the advantage with the curtain front. I made some improvements, mainly moving the dial indicator closer to center + added a movable part to be able to use the full stroke of the dial indicator in any position of the top/moving base. My fence is well over 10 years old and have survived very well. 2.25 into this video, sorry for shaky filming, this was prior to my more serious films. https://youtu.be/hz17-UutQNU
This is helpful! I like the curtain fence…I think Pat himself had a later version that incorporated the feature.
Yes, his second version was in the picture i linked. I retrofitted this feature to my fence and I would say I use the curtain front for 90% of the operations.
Matt,
I think you're out of luck. 22-year-old web links are usually a dead end. Back in the day, all that info was put onto one huge page that is no longer available. Not to mention, it's doubtful the part numbers from the suppliers are the same 22 years later.
I grabbed a PDF copy of the original page and attached it below. If that doesn't work, here's a link to an archived version of the page:
https://web.archive.org/web/20010124070000/http://www.taunton.com/fw/features/tools/62reid.htm
thank you both!
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