Blog series by shaun | updated 03-02-2008 01:11 PM | 3 parts | 4596 reads | 19 comments total |
Part 1: Mid Construction
I’m getting ready to head out again, hoping to be back Thursday this time, but I wanted to post some of the new router table I’ve been working on (no it’s not the white one) ;-). I’ve been chipping away at this one for a while now with no real rhyme or reason to it, just sort of doing what I feel like when I feel like it. I’m sure that the lack of planning will jump up and bite me at some point but so far so good. Here’s where it stands right now. ...
Part 2: Getting Closer
It’s geting closer to looking like a router table I finished up the bottom drawers today. You can see I had a couple of scratches that I thought were small enough to sand out. That turned out to be a pretty signifcant error in jundgment. About halfway through the sanding it became apparent to me but, like the energizer bunny, I kept going and going. I thought about flipping it around and using the other side as the face but the color and grain on the other side was too dif...
Part 3: Good thing I'm not getting paid for this
cause I started it about 3 months ago and it’s still a work in progress. But at least I’ve got all the drawers in it now. The last one was for router bit storage. Initially I planned on making this two drawers, but then I noticed what Sawdustroad was doing with his table and came up with this idea. Special note – Thanks for the idea Sawdust! It would be much better if it had full extension drawer slides on it but I went with what I had for now. I’l...