{"id":2242,"date":"2008-12-04T15:16:37","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T20:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hogonice.com\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2008-12-04T15:16:37","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T20:16:37","slug":"how-the-professionals-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/?p=2242","title":{"rendered":"How the Professionals do It"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beat Your Power Tools With a Hammer<\/em><\/p>\n

Okay, the sensation of manliness has worn off, and I feel like an idiot again.<\/p>\n

I’ve been watching Taunton’s Router Joinery DVD, with Gary Rogowski. He says he has been making furniture for 20 years, so I guess he knows a few things.<\/p>\n

Remember all the BS I’ve been through with my router aspirations? I got a big-ass plunge router with a huge motor. I wanted to be able to use it in a table, and I wanted to be able to change bits and so on without reaching under the table, so I bought a lift and a router plate. For days, I’ve been agonizing, trying to get my old MDF\/melamine desk perfectly flat so I could mount the plate in it.<\/p>\n

Guess what this guy uses for a router table? A crappy sheet of melamine with a hole in it. I am not kidding. It’s like two by three feet, and it has NO attachments except for a router base. It has no dust collection hole. No cutesy fence. Is it flat? I very much doubt it. He sets it up by putting about four inches of it on a workbench and holding it in place with TWO CLAMPS. There is no way it doesn’t flex when it has weight on it. I can’t believe it hasn’t snapped.<\/p>\n

His router? It’s a Stanley. I know; I didn’t know they made routers, either. It’s probably thirty years old. It’s such a piece of crap, he has to bang on it with a hammer to make the bits come out. He has other routers, too, but he seems to use this one just to torment people like me, who actually spend money on tools.<\/p>\n

His fence is a piece of scrap held in place with clamps. This guy is a professional woodworker, and it appears he has invested about two hundred dollars in tools.<\/p>\n

I want to kill him.<\/p>\n

I haven’t gone all that crazy. Some guys buy $300 lifts and $900 tables. I have a router and a lift and a cheesy old desk; that’s not so bad. But compared to Gary Rogowski, I’m wildly extravagant.<\/p>\n

I was considering giving my old Sears router and table away, but now that I’ve seen what this man does with horrible tools, I may have to keep them. Although I really hate that router. You adjust the depth by turning the router inside a plastic collar which gets stuck once a certain amount of sawdust hits it. I hate it. I HATE it. Maybe the table is worth keeping.<\/p>\n

I need a band saw.<\/p>\n

Look, leave me alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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