Bought a sears router 1/4" with a roman ogee bit, no bearing. (70's I think)
Dressed up edges of projects, but it burned allot.
Got a ogee bit with a bearing, solved burn & marks on the sedge, well almost.
Retired 1-1/2 yrs ago, built a shop. Started building a workbench. Needed to rout a tung & grove for the end apron & dove tails (so the benchtop could move & the one side apron would move in & out with weather humidity etc.) (bought a bosh 1617 evs 1/2")
Had no idea how to make 1-/2" deep dovetails, I came up with a davetail key which is actually a bow tie key, made the jig & after several tries got it to work. Finished the workbench & wanted to make some cabinets for under the bench. Figured I needed a router table. That's where I'm at. Bought a book "router magic". Making the table on this site. Almost overwhelmed with the possibilities of the router table with bits, jigs & accessories. Ordered basic bits & now have ordered other router accessories that I think I need to make box joint for the bottom drawer, cabinet door for the front. Ordered some supplies for jig making. Waiting on the mailman. Want to build the router cabinet with a router s much as I can to learn. Getting unbelievable help from this site.
End plan is to build new kitchen cabinets out of wood I got from WV, Dads saw mill before he passed on, (router table oak was Dad's also, work bench is from maple , cherry from his mill that we cut together). Just want it to look, well, quality. Dad's wood you know.
Learn dovetails next (ideas in my head of a chess table, maple & walnut).