Recovering Baptist

When tools attack

Posted in Fun, House by RB on May 25th, 2008

It took Fox a long time to be accepted as a “real” network. If you watch Simpsons reruns, you’ll hear the occasional crack at their own network. And, let’s be honest, it’s hard to take Fox seriously when it airs shows like “When Cars Attack!” Too bad the cameras weren’t rolling in my garage yesterday.

I’m still in the process of becoming proficient with the router table. I used a bit like this to route the slots in the sides of our new drawers. Tongue and Groove Router Bit That’s the same bit shown twice. When set up like on the left it creates a slot, and when set up as shown on the right, it creates a tongue which fits into the slot. I was feeling pretty good that I managed to set things up to create a nice, consistent slot for the plywood bottoms for our drawers. After switching bits to route the tops of the drawer sides, I put the tongue and groove bit back in the router to experiment with it some more.

We’ll be using this bit for our doors and drawer fronts. We’ll create a slot in all four sides of the door and then reconfigure the bit to create a tongue so the top and bottom pieces of the door fit snugly into the sides. It’s a nice look. And I needed to practice getting the bit set up right. The guy at Rockwell made it sound so easy; everything is supposed to just line up. But it wasn’t. After ruining about 10 pieces of scrap I was getting frustrated. I should have stopped, especially when I noticed the router sounded a bit different than usual. But who wants to be beat by their own tool? I made another adjustment and started routing yet another piece of wood when the router bit went airborne. You know those kids toys where you pull the string and a disk flys like a helicopter? Think of that, only with a very, very heavy and sharp router bit. As soon as I realized it wasn’t on the table any more I hit the deck and covered my head. The bit landed 6 inches from my head, maybe less.

I changed my shorts, grabbed a beer, and called it a day. Fox’s producers would have loved it.

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