The things we do for friends. Cutting down doors.

Jan 17, 2005 42 Replies

Bottom line: It went fine. I crosscut the bottoms using the old "slab of foam insulation on the floor" technique. For the rips I used a roller stand on the infeed and my router table as an outfeed table. I built the router table at just the right height to serve as an outfeed table. I fed the pine doors standing in front of and to the right of the fence, with a constant force in toward the fence. My friend guided them at the outfeed end.

Before we cut the doors we practiced with an old hollow-core door that I had around.

"If you don't practice on scrap, you're practicing on your project," as they say.

Thanks to all for the various kinds of advice.

Congrats on a job well done. I'm very happy for you (and athe wives) that it went well!

Glenna

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