OPR DVD Review

[tdubnik]

I just received my new OPR yesterday and took a look inside. I haven't assembled or mounted it yet but should get to that in the next few days. The OPR was packed very nicely with lots of cushioning materials and no visible damage.

The purpose of this post, however is the Overarm Pin Router introduction DVD. The video quality was very good but the demos were very sloppy. If this DVD had been my intorduction to the OPR; I probably would have passed. The quality of the work performed in the demo was so sloppy I would have resigned most of it to my scrap heap.

The Nick Engler demos in the Sawdust Sessions are so much better even though the video quality is not as good. Thank goodness I watched those before seeing this DVD.

Did the rest of you get this DVD with your OPR and if so; do you think I am totally off base or did you see the same things?

[nuhobby]

I got my new OPR in early 2009 following a few weeks of back-order. Mine only came with printed documentation, no DVD.

[reible]

Hi,

The only OPR video I have ever seen was one off ebay in a VHS package done by Shopsmith instructor Kasey Chaffin in 1987. The tape was not in great shape video or sound wise mostly from being 20 plus years old.

I think I once ask if that was the video they were using now and heard that was the case. If that is still true I do not know.

If they have a new video then just skip the rest of this as I'm referencing what I know based on what I have.

As to the content I had/have no major problems with it.

I just remember that was 23 years ago, done with the tools of the day. Today's bits cut better/cleaner and we have come along way from the wood table system use on the original OPR.

I personally would never use the miter gauge on this or other router tables, however it was common back then. Same with some of the other things shown, I just have a different preferences now then I did years ago.

As a case in point go back to the earliest New Yankee Workshop videos, that should be about the same time frame and watch a few of them.... Yea the good old days.

So if I were to make a check in the negative it would simply be that this if a very dated video.

I'm not sure where the "sloppy" comes in, to me it looks much like real life in the workshop... or???

So base line, this video is what it is and you are better off having it then not, at least in my opinion.

Ed

[ryanbp01]

I got my new OPR in early 2009 following a few weeks of back-order. Mine only came with printed documentation, no DVD.
Ditto. However, I did order the DVD which I found out was available on a related thread.

BPR

[jbooher]

The video that you receive with the ORP is by Kasey Chaffin and was made in 1987. They use the old OPR table and he only shows what the OPR will do. He does not show how to set it up. Don't waste your money on purchasing the DVD.

[charlese]

Nope - Didn't get a DVD with mine.

[fjimp]

The video that you receive with the ORP is by Kasey Chaffin and was made in 1987. They use the old OPR table and he only shows what the OPR will do. He does not show how to set it up. Don't waste your money on purchasing the DVD.

As a person who had never owned or used an OPR I did purchase the DVD and although the information is as stated old and related primarily to the original version of the OPR, I did find it educational. That along with watching Nick use one in Sawdust sessions and a variety of posts here help one become well educated on the use and flexibility of the OPR. Yes if I had not also purchased it I would do so again. fjimp