Richard D
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I'd just like to say how much I hate the manual that comes with the Woodrat.
I had the day off, spent the morning buying some wood and cutting and planing it to size to make a box. This was going to be my first attempt at dovetails on the Woodrat (I've got box joints down pat, but they get no kudos points around here). The afternoon was spent looking after the rugrats (so much for a day off), leaving this evening to get the box done.
So now I'm sitting here, with some perfectly cut tails and perfectly cut pins, that are neatly off-set by half the width of the joint's interval.. Fantastic. What I have, then, is firewood. Argh!
It would help no end if the Woodrat manual actually explained everything, and gave me some pointers to common mistakes. But I have no idea why this has happened. Is the router correctly located, north-south wise, on the router plate? Dis I get the spirals or centre button wrong? When I cut the pins and moved the work-piece east-west, was I right to line up the cuts with the mark I'd made when cutting the tails? No sodding idea.
All I know right now is that I want to kill someone. I'm not going to let it beat me. But with absolutely no clue what I did wrong, I'm disinclined to start again tonight (especially as getting the saw out again is a PITA).
I had the day off, spent the morning buying some wood and cutting and planing it to size to make a box. This was going to be my first attempt at dovetails on the Woodrat (I've got box joints down pat, but they get no kudos points around here). The afternoon was spent looking after the rugrats (so much for a day off), leaving this evening to get the box done.
So now I'm sitting here, with some perfectly cut tails and perfectly cut pins, that are neatly off-set by half the width of the joint's interval.. Fantastic. What I have, then, is firewood. Argh!
It would help no end if the Woodrat manual actually explained everything, and gave me some pointers to common mistakes. But I have no idea why this has happened. Is the router correctly located, north-south wise, on the router plate? Dis I get the spirals or centre button wrong? When I cut the pins and moved the work-piece east-west, was I right to line up the cuts with the mark I'd made when cutting the tails? No sodding idea.
All I know right now is that I want to kill someone. I'm not going to let it beat me. But with absolutely no clue what I did wrong, I'm disinclined to start again tonight (especially as getting the saw out again is a PITA).