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   RMillard | Mar 22, 2004 11:11pm | #1

   Spitfire,

   I have the same relationship with my router. If I take all other mistakes I've made by other causes ( except finishing) and add them together they would not equal those made with the router. Routers are great tools, but they can get you into trouble at nearly 30,000 rpm's. I use them nearly everyday, and never without reservations.

   Rob Millard

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   wgsdvm | Mar 23, 2004 02:40pm | #6

   I agree that is the exact point I was making!!!  I am going to purchase a rabbet plane, a shoudler plane, etc and do more of these tasks by hand!

   Hand tools are more enjoyable and "user friendly" in many ways

   Spitfire

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   dirtstirrer | Mar 23, 2004 02:04am | #2

   Ah-ha!  An excuse to by a set of hollows and rounds! 

   I agree with you and Rob, and thats part of the reason I'm a plane nut.

   Good luck,

   Steve
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   wgsdvm | Mar 23, 2004 02:40pm | #7

   Steve,

   I fully agree. 

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   robkress | Mar 23, 2004 02:52am | #3

   Spit,

   Your little scridoodle is now just a great opportunity for a little more router practice.....

   Just route yourself a cool little butterfly or something other inlay and lay it right in over the spot.  Maybe a dutchman.  Make it look like you meant it.

   Not making fun, just trying to put a happy spin on it.

   Hope you can fix it well,

   Rob Kress

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   wgsdvm | Mar 23, 2004 02:42pm | #8

   Rob,

   Thanks and I know you are not making fun, we are in a special brother/ sisterhood in this woodworking art that is for sure.

   It makes things fun aferall if we were all perfect we would not need this forum, woodworkling clases, etc etc

   have a good one

   Spitfire

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   Alan | Mar 23, 2004 03:33am | #4

   spitfire,

   I didn't have a love-hate relationship with my routers.  It was more of a hate-fear kind of thing.

   I always hated the noise made by those forked-tail screamers; and I hated what they could do to a perfectly nice bit of wood just because they weren't feeling well, or got up on the wrong side of the tool box, or something else dictated by the nature of the cosmos.  Hate, hate, hate!

   The fear arose when I was putting a rounded edge on a piece of something.  An easy, safe use of a router.  What evil could there possibly be?  As I was watching it slicing through the wood, I saw the bit wobble just a little.  I shut it off immediately, picked it up off the wood, and pointed the base away from me.  I had gotten it nearly to arms' length when the bit let go.  It rattled around in the base for just a small fraction of a second, and then it decided to go out into the yard--even though the door was closed at the time.  It punched a splintery hole in the 3/4" fir door about three inches around.

   It was just about then, about that time in my wood working, that I began looking to see how many operations I could do without sacrificing innocent little electrons.  I was amazed to discover that I could do everything using just Armstrong power tools.  So I no longer deal with forked-tail, evil-doing tools.

   Alan

   
   

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   Edited 3/23/2004 8:21 pm ET by Alan

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   wgsdvm | Mar 23, 2004 02:38pm | #5

   I agree thanks 

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   lynnroy | Mar 23, 2004 09:53pm | #9

   I avoid using my router. I took a course at Homestead Heritage Woodworking school and learned to the plane, chisel and hand saw. I now only use the router when it saves me time. I now make dovetails by hand and sold my dovetail temmplane. I just purchased a shaper because I think router are dangerous and noisy.