More progress
Posted by JeffI forgot to post it at the time, but Thursday, while I was cutting the tapers on the legs for the crib I caught a piece of kick-back in the chest. I have no out-feed table and it’s a very small taper at the very end of the leg. So, when I was almost done with the cut, the leg tipped down. Somewhere in there, the blade threw the slice of wood back at me. It hit me just to left of my sternum. Ouch! Remind me not to do that again!
Today, I think I finished all of the milling of parts. I drilled the holes in the legs. I also cut and milled all of the slat retainers. I’m fairly certain that was the last of the parts that needed to be milled. I think, tomorrow, I can dry fit some parts!
Today didn’t go without incident either. When they tell you not to have your hands anywhere near a router bit, they even mean over top of it when there is a piece of wood between your hand and the bit.
Don’t worry, my hand wasn’t actually over that spot when the bit came through! Apparently, I hadn’t tightened the 3/8″ straight bit enough. On the second board, it started vibrating a lot as I was cutting the groove. So, I decided to lower the bit to take a shallower cut. If I would have looked at the groove then I would have seen that the bit had already started to travel up. Of course I didn’t. So, I made about 3 more inches into the board when all of the sudden the bit popped out the top.
Fortunately, my had wasn’t right there. It was a 1/4″ shank in a reducer to fit the 1/2″ router collet. Unfortunately, in it’s ejection from the router, the shaft of the bit got messed up, but the collet reducer is fine.
So, I had to go out and get a new one. I got a 1/2″ shank this time. No need to use the reducer! I finished the work without incident.
Tomorrow things might start looking like a crib!
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