I'm an idiot--router table department

Nov 10, 2006 7 Replies

So I need to make a half inch rabbet in four pieces of purpleheart.



So I stick the rabbet bit in the router and have at it.



So it turns out a need more like 5/16 of an inch and I don't have a smaller bearing.



So I turn the pieces on edge and run them through with the bit raised a little bit.



So now I have a little 1/16" or thereabouts ridge in the corner that I have to neander out with a chisel.



So the phone rings.



So when I get off the phone I come back and realize that I'm neandering this on top of the router table, which has a 3 horse router in it, a lift, and an Incra jig. DOH. About a minute and a half later it's done.



What I can't figure out is WTF I didn't do it that way to begin with.


LOL.. After the initial DOH.. I find those discoveries very refreshing. Keeps me humble.

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Sounds like something I'd do. So many toys... so little time.

Maybe if you attached a laser to you router table and....... ;~)

Well, look at it this way, if you had used the router to begin with, you probably wouldn't have heard the phone ring.

That should have been 9/16. Can't add on top of everything else.

That's what answering machines are for. They let you concentrate on the work at hand.

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