Posted 3/20/2009 2:25 PM (#367318) Subject: New Favorite Power Tool
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After all my worries and other medical delays, I finally got my router table up and running.......I love it! I'll be making different shapes that I've never seen before.
Quick story....Set up the router table and went out to the garage. Ran some scrap pieces of cedar then maple. Grabbed a blank, and the router died. No humming from the motor...nothing. Took the router back to Sears to exchange it. While I browsed for other stuff that I needed, I happened to watch the clerk take a new router out of a combo box and stick the useless one in it and tape it up and then put a clearance label on it and set it on the clearance table. Some poor SOB is going to buy a router that doesn't work!
The clerk gave me a questionaire to fill out when I checked out. This is one that I can't wait to fill out.
Time to watch The Badgers play hockey. The hell with basketball, March Madness happens on the ice.
Beav
Posted 3/20/2009 4:58 PM (#367356 - in reply to #367353) Subject: RE: New Favorite Power Tool
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Location: N.FIB
why didn`t you say something to the clerk,I would of jumped all over there a**,and said something to the store manager about it.How would you like to buy something broke and then have to take it back,oh wait you already did,and then spent more money.Maybe your not that kind of person to do that,I never was but am becoming one.
Posted 3/20/2009 9:56 PM (#367401 - in reply to #367318) Subject: Re: New Favorite Power Tool
Posts: 303
Location: WI
Beaver - You should've stayed in the garage and made lures instead of watching the Badgers.....they played pretty crummy, and it didn't look any better being their live either....
Posted 3/21/2009 3:25 PM (#367519 - in reply to #367318) Subject: Re: New Favorite Power Tool
Posts: 1504
Location: Oregon
That's funny you say that Beav, my first two routers I bought from Sears did the same thing!! The one I have now has been good though, third time is the lucky charm I guess.
Posted 3/23/2009 4:39 PM (#367891 - in reply to #367318) Subject: RE: New Favorite Power Tool
Posts: 501
Location: Norway
I found my new favourite tool today. A friend has this machine, and I dont have access to a bandsaw, so I take what I can get...
Approx 1,5 hrs I had 90 or so blanks.
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Posted 3/23/2009 6:50 PM (#367916 - in reply to #367891) Subject: RE: New Favorite Power Tool
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I am so jealous!
Lucky your friend lives across the ocean, or he'd be my friend too.
You're a lucky guy. I thought that you hand carved all your lures over there.
Beaver
Posted 3/24/2009 2:46 AM (#367968 - in reply to #367923) Subject: Re: New Favorite Power Tool
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Location: Norway
Muskerboy - 3/23/2009 7:18 PM
Thats cheating ;)
I call it effiency.. but I kinda do agree, but as I wrote, I dont have access to anything else. We were also gonna build a jig for it, so that it could round over the edges too. But he didnt have the correct bit.
And for me thats just have begun venturing into this hobby, its a bit overkill, but I dont just make 5 or 10 blanks when Im there. I will probably have blanks till I die...
Oh and its the bait, named after Beaver, that are being made on the picture.
Posted 3/28/2009 10:32 AM (#368821 - in reply to #367318) Subject: Re: New Favorite Power Tool
Posts: 501
Location: Norway
Nah, the fun part is designing and painting and not forget, taking your first finished bait out of the drier... Getting a new airbrush tomorrow (iwata) and some new clearcoat, cant wait til Ive routered these ...
Posted 4/10/2009 2:07 AM (#371368 - in reply to #367318) Subject: RE: New Favorite Power Tool
Posts: 501
Location: Norway
Again, a great tip picked up from a swedish baitbuilder! I am dead scared of the router, and after my brother nicked a finger in one, helping me, I was even more scared But then I picked up a great tip. Its made out of plexiglass, some handles, and Ive glued a 60 grit sandpaper underneath. Your fingers are behind a shield, and no worries what so ever. I routered 80 out of 90 blanks yesterday evening, all fingers intact, and no valium pills consumed
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Posted 4/10/2009 10:29 AM (#371417 - in reply to #367318) Subject: RE: New Favorite Power Tool
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Location: Muskegon Michigan
I love cnc ,wish I could afford one. Cutting out the one dimension blanks is one thing . Doing a three dimensional body shape like my Deepthreats is another. It would cost me over 500 bucks to scan the prototype in . Its the setup costs that ends up keeping me from farming that work out.
All of my big diving lips are cut on a cnc or cad water jet that cuts just like that machine. My setup for him is just 50 bucks per lip one time fee.
For Router tables I use something similar to the holder pictured. I have learned to keep my hands away from the bit. When I am routing the big baits I still get a little queezy around that big roundover bit. That sucker could take half of your hand in a nano second. I do hundreds of those in one day so I only have to do it once or twice per year. Kingfisher
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But then I picked up a great tip. Its made out of plexiglass, some handles, and Ive glued a 60 grit sandpaper underneath. Your fingers are behind a shield, and no worries what so ever. I routered 80 out of 90 blanks yesterday evening, all fingers intact, and no valium pills consumed 
