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Well, I guess this really is not complete but I had to get these pics out of the camera b 4 I could take more of the completed project. This is a project I s’pose you could say I started in 1973! I made a walnut and oak cutting board for my mother for Christmas that year, in high school woodshop. Since then, it had warped a bit and had a 3/16 layer of pizza grease and beer on it. So, I scraped it down, cut it into 3 pieces and surfaced it smooth and square via jointer and thickness planer. Then, after I glued it back together, my buddy Dan Pleska came to the rescue once again with his wide sander. I took a “Stanley” L bracket and cut it in half, mortised it into the edges of the router plate recess to keep the plunger things from tearing out the wood as i remove it. It has 4 coats of poly on top, 3 on the sides and 2 on the bottom. I bought Norm’s router table plan just to make the fence for it and adapted it to bolt to my TS fence. And, since I had the plan I figured I might as well build the base cab too. I’ll post it as a seperate project.
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Dan Pleska
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posted 151 days ago
Wow! That turned out real nice, Bruce. That fence is a beast too. Good job. Thanks for the post.
-- Dan, West Virginia, http://www.danpleskaCreations.com
Bureaucrat
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posted 151 days ago
Good reuse of material. It looks marvelous! Do the fence rails hold it up or is there additional attachment paraphernalia used?
-- Gary, South Central Wisconsin. So much to learn, so little time!
a1Jim
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posted 151 days ago
That’s some super router table. well done.
-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon
blockhead
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posted 151 days ago
That’s one of the coolest tables I’ve seen. Great job and thanks for sharing.
-- Brad, Oregon- Wood, it's what's for dinner.
Sawdustonmyshoulder
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posted 150 days ago
Hey, guys and gals, this might be a great use for all of those Woodwhisperer cutting boards that all of us have made. Yeah, I got one too.
Bruce, you done good! I like it!
-- Makin' Sawdust!!!
Bruce
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posted 150 days ago
Thanks, everyone. It is actually bolted to the tablesaw and might be a frog hair lower so the fance will slide over it. The router is out of it until I get the cab done. It will have adjustable feet (bolts) to raise it up, just right, to level the top. I feel like I otta be gettin paid for all this work!
tmiller
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posted 150 days ago
Love the fence.
Thanks for posting the pics.
-- All trees have projects inside of them, it is your job to get them out.
JasonWagner
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posted 55 days ago
So cool…I think fun stuff like this is great…good job. On my last saw I had all Corain inserts that matched our countertops in the kitchen…good use of something quality and looks neat too.