Quarterflash Designs

A very nice day today for a change. Well, really it’s not been all that bad here, we didn’t get the deep cold that a lot of the rest of the country did. Still, today was warm enough to get outside without a coat or even, for that matter, a sweater. Since it was that warm I headed out to work on my router table.

I’ve had the base done for a while now. It was made by trimming 2x4s to square up the edges, notching the legs to put supports acrss and then screwing the two sides together with some other supports. It’s pretty sturdy. I had started a top before, but used plywood and 1/4″ hardboard. That combination ended up warping on me. In one of the other magazines there was a plan for a much fancier router table and his top was made of two glued up 3/4″ MDF pieces. I’m sticking with my original plan, but using the MDF as the base for the top.

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Well, now that Sherri mentioned me in Charles’ newsletter, I suppose I need to keep things updated over here as well :)

A bit of background – I had to give up flying after I had the two discs in my neck fused as I no longer had the range and motion I needed to be safe flying. I was about one flight away from soloing and it was a dream I had had for years.  Well, I needed something else to fill my time and I’d always had an interest in woodworking, but not much interest in doing big projects.

I’ve always been fascinated by puzzles. I used to be able to solve a Rubic’s Cube, but I haven’t done that for years. I decided to start working on puzzles and somewhere in the search for information I ran across this Charles Neil guy and he made the mistake of being helpful so I decided to stick around for a while. (more…)