Comments on: Radarcarve gunstock duplicator review

By: admin

admin — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 19:56:56 +0000

In reply to Kelly Craig. This is neat! I have mine on a thick piece of plywood, and just lean it up out of the way when not in use.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 19:55:34 +0000

In reply to James. What I had to do for really thin stock areas, such as the fore-end, is go ahead and cut the bottom and sides, then just the top flat of the stock, and take a LITTLE out of the channels with the machine.... then use a dowel wrapped in sandpaper to finish out the channel by hand.

By: James

James — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 16:37:55 +0000

This guide is very handy, certainly will be upgrading my machine. Issue I have is the stock I am attempting to duplicate is quite easily bent, there does not appear to be any way of duplicating it accurately, the best I’ll be able to do is attempt to work four sides of the stock making supports to stop the original bending as I go, between Centers of the machine the stock will easily bend 1/4 inch which cases issue as you can imagine

By: Rich McCrea

Rich McCrea — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 18:39:44 +0000

Hi
I run a company called OLS .We duplicate rifle stocks for a living.
I bought Lees first heavy duty router model.There where things that needed tweaking and all out changing.For that price point I would never have bought anything as useful.
I called Lee a lot of names at the time but now I’m grateful to him.
I have another machine that would cost $12,000 to replace. It makes 2 stocks at a time and doesn’t inlet near as precise as Lee’s.With his improvements I think Radar Carvers are worth the effort.

By: Kelly Craig

Kelly Craig — Thu, 26 May 2016 06:57:12 +0000

Check out the flip up (pivoting) mobile table I made for my carver. It would be handy for those wanting to save space, when the unit is not in use.

The base flips up easily and rolls with little effort.

http://lumberjocks.com/projects/248162

[I also posted the same photos on Router Forums web site. For either site, you can do a search for Kelly Craig, or the Radar Carver.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 04:33:33 +0000

In reply to Mike Jeronimus. Hello. He did provide some stand-offs that go under the rails that you can move around to help support the rail from bending. Those and some practice will make a good hobby-level setup most people can make copies with.

By: Mike Jeronimus

Mike Jeronimus — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 01:54:07 +0000

In your original post you stated that if you new then what you know now you would not buy the Radarcarve. I read the comment from Mr. Davis and wonder if the situation did in fact get remedied and how you feel now, and what other machine you might recommend. The only other machine I’ve encountered is the Gemini and the cost of that machine is rather prohibitive to my budget. Thanks

By: admin

admin — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 04:18:03 +0000

In reply to james. Hello, The system works fine with the larger router and extra side supports in addition to the other recommendations I have in the article. By fine, I mean with practice and patience you can make some pretty good copies.

By: james

james — Sun, 17 Aug 2014 23:44:12 +0000

Hi,
How are you finding the machine after a bit more time with it? do you find you can accurately copy the inletting?

thanks for your informative post, I hope the radarcarve team have read and taken your advice onboard for improvements.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 06:22:33 +0000

In reply to Bill. Regardless of the price, when a seller states something on his main web page, he should be ready for that claim to be examined and evaluated publicly. When the terms "absolutely rigid and non-flexing" are used, that is what should be provided. When the items are NOT as claimed, he should utilize that feedback in future product development. If a seller is going to put something out for public use he should expect public evaluation whether it supports or contradicts his claims.