I haven’t had much time to work in the shop over the last two weeks, but I’ve made some progress, I’ve managed to finish off the top & I’m partway done with the fence. Hopefully by this weekend I will have the fence done, and be ready to apply a finish.
Last time, I demonstrated how to make templates for routing the recess for a lift plate. In this post, I’ll demonstrate how to use those templates to rout the recess.
Step one – Align the through hole template, and drill a starter hole all the way through the top. To ensure good alignment, I clamped a jointed 2×4 perpendicular to the front of the top, this gave me two good edges to reference the templates off of.
