Abstract: A gauge for use by woodworkers in setting the height of a router bit to make lock miter joints with a router table. The gauge includes a base for upright positioning upon a router table. The base has a bottom plate and a top plate connected by a crosspiece. A gauging arm is pivotally connected to the crosspiece at a pivot point and having a front portion extending forwardly from the pivot point and a rear portion extending rearwardly from the pivot point. A gauging finger extends laterally from the front portion of the gauging arm. A setscrew extends upwardly from the rear portion of the gauging arm to a location below the top plate.

Abstract: A router guide including a base member configured for attachment to a workbench in two different orientations. A clamping member is secured to the base member by threaded fasteners at each of its opposite ends so as to form a slot of variable height between the clamping member and the base member. In use, boards are positioned in the slot and held there by tightening threaded fasteners while a router bit is run along the free edge of the boards to make cuts. The router bit is steadied during cutting operations by pressing the associated router against a guide surface provided in either the clamping member or a guide plate attached to the base member remote from the clamping member.

Abstract: A one man operable, mobile, field usable log cutting device is provided for quickly and easily loading, handling and transversely cutting of heavy logs to yield finished log segments or discs. The device includes a rotatable, powered saw blade along with an elevated, shiftable, log support for manually moving a supported log into a saw blade for cutting purposes. A manually operable, pivotal, knee-action log advancer is also provided for selective lifting and axial shifting of a log towards a limit stop for determining disc thickness. As disc-like log segments are successively cut, they fall by gravity towards an underlying conveyor for transporting the segments away from the device; conveyor damage from falling segments is prevented through use of a pivotal, spring cushioned, basket-like log segment catcher disposed below the saw blade which engages the falling log segments, turns the same and safely deposits the segments onto the conveyor.

Abstract: A one man operable, mobile, field usable log cutting device is provided for quickly and easily loading, handling and transversely cutting of heavy logs to yield finished log segments or discs. The device includes a rotatable, powered saw blade along with an elevated, shiftable, log support for manually moving a supported log into a saw blade for cutting purposes. A manually operable, pivotal, knee-action log advancer is also provided for selective lifting and axial shifting of a log towards a limit stop for determining disc thickness. As disc-like log segments are successively cut, they fall by gravity towards an underlying conveyor for transporting the segments away from the device; conveyor damage from falling segments is prevented through use of a pivotal, spring cushioned, basket-like log segment catcher disposed below the saw blade which engages the falling log segments, turns the same and safely deposits the segments onto the conveyor.