I am not finished yet. The first picture shows the pattern sitting on top of a 3/4 inch birch pine rough cut of the inner board in the leg. I actually started cutting the 3/4 inch pieces for the leg first but discovered that I only had a 1/2 inch guide bit for the router. I actually had looked for a 3/4 inch guide bit at Lowes when I was there, but all they has was the 1/2 inch. I am thinking I will head to a local hardware store to see if they have one.That however was not my first complication. First, I cut the pattern out of some cheap 1/4 inch plywood I had lying around. This would not have been a problem, except that I had cut the blue print out too small. That when I measured the pattern to check myself, the pattern came up short.
So I recut the second blueprint I had printed out and recut the pattern. Correctly this time. My second obstacle was the
3/4 inch bit I didn't have. Because I don't have the router mounted on the bottom of the table, the pattern had to be clamped, then flipped with the pattern on the bottom and the router on the top. This presented difficulty in seeing where the router bit was a forced me to trust the pattern. It worked though I got tons of saw dust in my eyes while trying to see where I was cutting. That was with safety glasses.
Never-the-less, you can see the final product and while they still need a bit of work, I am pretty pleased with how they turned out.
Well, I'll keep you all updated.
Peace,
Scott
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