Sonics Semi-Scratch experiment - Flying Victory

[Sonic Mountain]

Guys... I think I'm in love. Family is on the mend today and while I'm pretty dusty from jamming in the new year, I finally got to play with my new router table. This is just crappy pine, but on half speed it goes thru it like butter. Few boo boos where I caught the end grain, but as this whole project is a bit of a practice run I don't care. Considering I have the templates I can always knock up a better body down the line if I decide I like this one.

[FrankenWashie]

I had assumed that your join line would have been down the center line of the body?
Did you run the whole body width in the one pass?
Was that the standard Diablo/BGS follow bit?
How was the stability of the Ozito table?

Inquiring minds need to know!

[Sonic Mountain]

I had assumed that your join line would have been down the center line of the body?

Yeah that would be the way to do it normally (properly) but the two pieces together are not quite wide enough so I just tipped it on it's side. I think this will be a bit stronger for the neck join as well, but I'm mostly doing this one to practice using the new machine.

Did you run the whole body width in the one pass?

Yep, it was very easy. I trimmed down to within about 10mm with the circular saw first, but yeah, it just buzzed through it no worries.

Was that the standard Diablo/BGS follow bit?

Yeah it is, I think it's 50mm tall flush trim with the bearing at the 'top'. I'll be interested to see how it goes with a harder wood. I have budget for a few more so I may upgrade. The router is the best bang for buck I could find and so far I'm pretty impressed (its a bit scary at full boar).

How was the stability of the Ozito table?

Yeah fine, I've just screwed it onto a short school desk I have here so I can take it outside, there was a phenomenal amount of shavings and dust generated. Given all my computers and guitars are in this same room.. not ideal lol.

For the price the table is great IMO, I mean it's typical Ozito, but does what I need. One day when I have a bit more room I'll drop that into a nice big 1800 x 900 bench and it'll be unreal. It comes with a whole lot of other useful stuff and extensions that I haven't fully explored. It's going to be very handy I think.

[FrankenWashie]

I had assumed that your join line would have been down the center line of the body?

Yeah that would be the way to do it normally (properly) but the two pieces together are not quite wide enough so I just tipped it on it's side. I think this will be a bit stronger for the neck join as well, but I'm mostly doing this one to practice using the new machine.

Did you run the whole body width in the one pass?

Yep, it was very easy. I trimmed down to within about 10mm with the circular saw first, but yeah, it just buzzed through it no worries.

Was that the standard Diablo/BGS follow bit?

Yeah it is, I think it's 50mm tall flush trim with the bearing at the 'top'. I'll be interested to see how it goes with a harder wood. I have budget for a few more so I may upgrade. The router is the best bang for buck I could find and so far I'm pretty impressed (its a bit scary at full boar).

How was the stability of the Ozito table?

Yeah fine, I've just screwed it onto a short school desk I have here so I can take it outside, there was a phenomenal amount of shavings and dust generated. Given all my computers and guitars are in this same room.. not ideal lol.

For the price the table is great IMO, I mean it's typical Ozito, but does what I need. One day when I have a bit more room I'll drop that into a nice big 1800 x 900 bench and it'll be unreal. It comes with a whole lot of other useful stuff and extensions that I haven't fully explored. It's going to be very handy I think.

Thanks for the comprehensive response mate, I had seen the Ozito tables in BGS for as little as $69.00 over Christmas. The Kreg one I was lusting after is around $350.00 dearer than that.

I've got some rudimentary dust/Shavings collection in place with a home built cyclone bucket system on my shop vac and no issues with computers or guitars (not finished ones anyway) to contend with in the Lab so its cool, I'm building a sanding station/shaping station so i may have to revisit the Ozito unit.

[king casey]

(its a bit scary at full boar).

A bit of a pig then.
Sorry couldn't resist.

cheers, Mark.