Judging by your post times, a lot happened between 3:51pm and 3:54pm!

Complete assembly in 3 minutes!

FWIW, if you're going to do more of these mods/conversions, you can pick up a fixed-based router (aka: laminate trimmer; edge router) pretty cheap. I think I paid $65 at the BGS for my Ozito. I only use it a couple of times a year, but it's handy to have and I didn't want to spend much for just that reason.

IIRC this build originally was undertaken specifically because it was a hard tail