Minimalist's router sled for flattening rough cut lumber

This is a great idea. I have had to make some counter tops recently and I would have loved to have seen this before I startted ;) nice work!

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Looks good to me.

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The sled is great, but the swivel jaws on your bench dogs caught my eye, nice job.

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Looks like a great setup. Thanks for sharing.

-- Cole - Rydal, GA

It works, how could it be better? Next time make one improvement and sooner or later you’ll have a fancy router sled. It sure beats hours of belt sanding or planing, doesn’t it? Great jig!

-- Hal, Tennessee http://www.first285.com

Very cool! I’ve been planning on making one of these for a little while now, love your idea!

Nice work! I will probably need one sooner or later and work like yours inspires me to get to it :)

-- Clark in Georgia

Ah, I’ve been trying to figure out how to incorporate my workbench into this idea! Thank you so much for posting your project, it’s just what I needed! Favorite time!

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Great idea and +1 on the swivel jaws.

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Fantastic – I think you struck a nice balance between good design without getting overly complicated and obviously great results.

-Pete

The small size of your solution is great! The larger sled designs have held me back from making one. Thanks for sharing.

-- Steve - Impatience is Expensive

Very cool design, and certainly much easier to store than my giant torsion box and sled! Nice job avoiding over-engineering it. I may have to build something like this to use with smaller pieces. Well done.

-- Pete in Wilmette, IL

Gotta say, while hand plane would be much faster, that is a great set up if you don’t have or don’t like hand planes. Definitely the best sled set up I’ve seen.

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GREAT IDEA! A well deserved DAILY TOP 3.

I’m in need of one of these but I don’t have a workbench (yet) that I can use like you use yours.

I have another idea for something like this and will need to make it this week.

-- Tyvekboy -- Marietta, GA

Oldtool, I hope you see this. Stupid question. What do the bolt on the end do? Are you going to use this sled on something wide that the table it is on now?

Thanks!

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