1/15/2024 0 Comments Aluminum router sledThe pins hold the height, while I clamp the sides to the bench. I offset the holes by 3/16″ (half of 3/8″) from the top, so that when the pin is in the 1″ hole, the top of the 2″x12″ is really 1″ above the surface of my bench. I drilled holes at 1/2 intervals along a diagonal so I could adjust the height up to 8.5″ or down to 1″. They slide into holes and then the bolt/pin sits on the top surface of my bench. To make the height adjustable I use 3/8″ bolts that I cut the threads off of. I decided to make the side rails out of 2″ x 12″ Southern Yellow Pine. Easy to store (not take up too much room).Easy to set up for bulk removal, but finely adjustable when needed.I started to re-think my method and was leaning toward making a router sled to flatten it and remove the bulk of the material. This section is about 4 inches thick at the peak which means I’d need to plane off several inches of oak by hand. I normally like to stick to planing things by hand, so I planed for 15 minutes with a scrub plane and only making a weee flat area. The two prime slabs are in need of drying for another year or so, but I decided to start playing with one of the more twisted flat-sawn outer sections. I sawed it into a few slabs and set them aside to dry. I took a section that was a little under 4 feet long and about 14″ in diameter. They are pretty common, seem to grow fast and make good climbing trees for kids due to horizontally growing branches. I tried to ID it using this oak tree guide but I no longer have access to leaves or acorns from that tree. A while back, a neighbor was cutting down an oak tree that was either a Southern Live Oak or a Swamp Laurel Oak.
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