Let's see your projects done with a router.

[Nele]

Show off your projects done with wood router, ideas, tricks. So far I've done work on aluminum, finished wood.

 

[Basstracker34]

I made this as a project years ago. I've made a few more after this.

Copied idea from http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_139/1264070_.html

 

[Basstracker34]

Second picture. Both uploaded from Iphone. Not sure why picture is sideways.

 

[trainer]

Current project. Raised panel cabinet doors and drawer fronts out of pine for a European-style cabinet

 

[Jere]

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Using a handheld router to slowly round this off centered log. (Sorry for the lousy lighting, fluorescents take for ever to brighten up at 5*f). The lathe jumps all over the floor when it is turned on and the wood is out of balance.

 

[Squashfest81]

Jere, please explain? Holding the router in your hands while the log spins on the lathe?
PS. Nice log on a Shopsmith.

 

[pault28]

Current project. Raised panel cabinet doors and drawer fronts out of pine for a European-style cabinet

Excellent job on those cabinets! I want to give something like that a try. I'll be happy if mine turn out half as nice as yours!

 

[ScottsGT]

I just finished this for the wife. Routed all the edges and bevels for the glass to fit into. The rest was a cheap Delta 10" table saw and and a Ryobi chop saw. It's for her 10K and marathon medals. And yes, the hammer was a trophy for "Hammer the Hills" run.

 

[Jere]

Jere, please explain? Holding the router in your hands while the log spins on the lathe?
PS. Nice log on a Shopsmith.

Good eye on the shopsmith and the apple wood. The apple log has some wild grain and color to it.

The router sits on the tool rest, where the chisel usually sits (this may require a simple jig to hold the router depending on the routers shape.). You can move the router on the tool rest or keep a pivot screw loose on the tool rest and move the rest in small increments. Then turn the log feeding it into the router. Wider straight bits seem to work the best.

At first my router fit wedged between the base plate of the router like it was made for it with the Ss factory tool rest... This was until the original rest broke off while spinning a larger piece.

At the moment I am making a simple jig that the router base screws into. Basically a board has two u bolts with wing nuts that secures the board and router to the new tool rest(home made).

 

[Sticks McGee]

Mantle clock I built my dad a few years ago...