Can the Copy Carver be set up to be a multiple carver?
A- Yes it can, very easily, however it is not covered in the instructions. Since most of the people using the Copy Carver are interested in one-to-one replication we didn’t want to confuse the process by adding more routers. The adaptation is simple, and portable. You simply bolt a longer piece of plywood to the face of the swing box and install additional routers on equal centers. Then build a second setup table wide enough to accommodate the original carving and attach it to the original work table with a long piano hinge and two drop down support legs. Now install the stylus at the end of the extension plank and center it over the original to be copied and place your wood blanks under each of the routers. Add additional barbell weights to the carriage to offset the weight of the additional routers and add a few pounds to the counter balance and you have it. If you used 3 routers, you now have the ability to knock out 3 duplicates in the time it took to do one before. If you are in n
