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Puuversio or WoodVersion - A product and brand development program for woodworking, interior design and upholstery industry

The Työtehoseura has set the aim of the training course to develop the knowledge of professionals in the woodworking, interior design and upholstery industry regarding bio-based and ecologically sustainable materials. The participant develops and commercializes a product or product group based on the use of renewable materials.

The training provides skills for developing new businesses and brands. Product development can be related to textiles, furniture, carpentry products, interior design, consumer goods or packaging.

My product idea for the course is a potholder or a trivet that can be made from various pieces of board, which are often left over from construction work and carpentry. 

The idea is that the required strips can be made from the piece of board in question by sawing only a strip as wide as the thickness of the board in question and cutting them to the right length. Six pieces are needed for one trivet.

A slanted half-lap joints are needed to be cut into each end of the pieces. 

At first, I thought about using a router table. It would have been necessary to make a sled for the workpiece to be able to route the grooves. However, the problem here is that the thickness of the pieces should be constant so that the joints are always tight. Or else the piece would have to be cut in several passes to achieve tight fit for different stock sizes.  

For a solution, I have planned to use a PantoRouter. With the PantoRouter, the thickness of the piece to be routed can be set to the template holder, so that the width of the groove to be milled is always proportional to the thickness of the piece in the means of the 1:2 ratio of the pantograph mechanism. 

Will see if it works.