A new and improved overhead power tool guide for use with a variety of hand-held power tools comprising in combination:
- a generally rectangular template having a pair of peripheral short walls with a pair of peripheral long walls therebetween, the template having a pair of guide rails fixedly attached to an upper surface thereof, the pair of guide rails being spaced apart and in parallel planes, one of each guide rail being parallel to one of each of the long walls of the template, the template having a length of 48 inches and a width of 36 inches, each guide rail having a length of 48 inches;
- a tool guide being formed from a pair of steel angle irons being coupled together by a pair of bars, each angle iron being 11/2 by 11/2 inch and drilled, each angle iron having an upper member and a lower member, the upper member and lower member each having a first end and a second end, the first end of the upper member of each angle iron being coupled by one of the pair of bars, the second end of the upper member of each angle iron being coupled by another of the pair of bars;
- each bar being threaded and having a diameter of about 3/8 inch, each bar having a pair of locking nuts and a wing nut for securing each bar within the pair of angle irons, the locking nuts of each bar being capable of allowing a distance between the pair of angle irons to vary, the wing nut of each bar being capable maintaining the distance between the pair of angle irons when coupled thereto, the lower members of the tool guide being capable of supporting a hand-held power tool therebetween when the upper members being coupled by the pair of bars;
- a guide plate capable of being positioned between the lower members of the coupled angle irons of the tool guide, the guide plate being capable of supporting a hand-held power tool thereon when positioned between the lower members of the tool guide;
- a plurality of guide cups being coupled to the upper surface of the template and capable of supporting the tool guide, each guide cup having an upper cup member with a threaded projection interconnected thereto, the threaded projection of each guide cup being capable of screwing into the upper surface of the template, the upper cup member being capable of receiving a head of a threaded bolt of each angle iron;
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- the plurality of guide cups being positonable about the template in sets of two and there being three sets of two, a first set of guide cups being positionable adjacent one of the guide rails and capable of receiving bolts of the tool guide, a second set of guide cups being adjacent another of the guide rails and capable of receiving bolts of the tool guide, a third set of guide cups being positionable within the space between the guide rails along the upper surface of the template, whereby the plurality of guide cups being capable of supporting the tool guide in variable orientations with respect to the guide rails of the template when the hand-held power tool being positioned between the tool guide.