So I need to make a half inch rabbet in four pieces of purpleheart.

So I stick the rabbet bit in the router and have at it.

So it turns out a need more like 5/16 of an inch and I don't have a smaller
bearing.

So I turn the pieces on edge and run them through with the bit raised a
little bit.

So now I have a little 1/16" or thereabouts ridge in the corner that I have
to neander out with a chisel.

So the phone rings.

So when I get off the phone I come back and realize that I'm neandering this
on top of the router table, which has a 3 horse router in it, a lift, and an
Incra jig. DOH. About a minute and a half later it's done.

What I can't figure out is WTF I didn't do it that way to begin with.

On Nov 9, 7:05 pm, "J. Clarke" wrote:
So I need to make a half inch rabbet in four pieces of purpleheart.

So I stick the rabbet bit in the router and have at it.

So it turns out a need more like 5/16 of an inch and I don't have a smaller
bearing.

So I turn the pieces on edge and run them through with the bit raised a
little bit.

So now I have a little 1/16" or thereabouts ridge in the corner that I have
to neander out with a chisel.

So the phone rings.

So when I get off the phone I come back and realize that I'm neandering this
on top of the router table, which has a 3 horse router in it, a lift, and an
Incra jig. DOH. About a minute and a half later it's done.

What I can't figure out is WTF I didn't do it that way to begin with.

LOL.. After the initial DOH.. I find those discoveries very refreshing.
Keeps me humble.

r

J. Clarke wrote:
So when I get off the phone I come back and realize that I'm neandering this
on top of the router table, which has a 3 horse router in it, a lift, and an
Incra jig. DOH. About a minute and a half later it's done.

What I can't figure out is WTF I didn't do it that way to begin with.



Sounds like something I'd do. So many toys... so little time.




--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com

"J. Clarke" wrote in message
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So I need to make a half inch rabbet in four pieces of purpleheart.

So I stick the rabbet bit in the router and have at it.

So it turns out a need more like 5/16 of an inch and I don't have a
smaller bearing.

So I turn the pieces on edge and run them through with the bit raised a
little bit.

So now I have a little 1/16" or thereabouts ridge in the corner that I
have to neander out with a chisel.

So the phone rings.

So when I get off the phone I come back and realize that I'm neandering
this on top of the router table, which has a 3 horse router in it, a lift,
and an Incra jig. DOH. About a minute and a half later it's done.

What I can't figure out is WTF I didn't do it that way to begin with.



Maybe if you attached a laser to you router table and....... ;~)

Thanks, now I don't feel so alone... Tom
J. Clarke wrote:
So I need to make a half inch rabbet in four pieces of purpleheart.

So I stick the rabbet bit in the router and have at it.

So it turns out a need more like 5/16 of an inch and I don't have a smaller
bearing.

So I turn the pieces on edge and run them through with the bit raised a
little bit.

So now I have a little 1/16" or thereabouts ridge in the corner that I have
to neander out with a chisel.

So the phone rings.

So when I get off the phone I come back and realize that I'm neandering this
on top of the router table, which has a 3 horse router in it, a lift, and an
Incra jig. DOH. About a minute and a half later it's done.

What I can't figure out is WTF I didn't do it that way to begin with.

In article ,
J. Clarke wrote:
So I need to make a half inch rabbet in four pieces of purpleheart.

So I stick the rabbet bit in the router and have at it.

So it turns out a need more like 5/16 of an inch and I don't have a smaller
bearing.

So I turn the pieces on edge and run them through with the bit raised a
little bit.

So now I have a little 1/16" or thereabouts ridge in the corner that I have
to neander out with a chisel.

So the phone rings.

So when I get off the phone I come back and realize that I'm neandering this
on top of the router table, which has a 3 horse router in it, a lift, and an
Incra jig. DOH. About a minute and a half later it's done.

What I can't figure out is WTF I didn't do it that way to begin with.



Well, look at it this way, if you had used the router to begin with,
you probably wouldn't have heard the phone ring.



--
Contentment makes poor men rich. Discontent makes rich men poor.
--Benjamin Franklin
Larry Wasserman - Baltimore, Maryland -

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Thanks, now I don't feel so alone... Tom
J. Clarke wrote:
So I need to make a half inch rabbet in four pieces of purpleheart.

So I stick the rabbet bit in the router and have at it.

So it turns out a need more like 5/16

That should have been 9/16. Can't add on top of everything else.

of an inch and I don't have a smaller
bearing.

So I turn the pieces on edge and run them through with the bit raised a
little bit.

So now I have a little 1/16" or thereabouts ridge in the corner that I
have
to neander out with a chisel.

So the phone rings.

So when I get off the phone I come back and realize that I'm neandering
this
on top of the router table, which has a 3 horse router in it, a lift, and
an
Incra jig. DOH. About a minute and a half later it's done.

What I can't figure out is WTF I didn't do it that way to begin with.

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 02:27:21 -0600, ()
wrote:

In article ,
J. Clarke wrote:
So I need to make a half inch rabbet in four pieces of purpleheart.

So I stick the rabbet bit in the router and have at it.


Well, look at it this way, if you had used the router to begin with,
you probably wouldn't have heard the phone ring.

That's what answering machines are for. They let you concentrate on
the work at hand.