Hi there,
I just joined the forum recently as I'm new to routing. The reason was that I have come into possession of some Elm slabs and want to make some tables. I got a lot of really good advice on the 'introduce yourself' page about ski's and stuff and which bits might work. I'm in the UK and large diameter bottom planing bits appear to be hard to find ( Infinity were out of stock ). Someone recommended Freud bits but even then I had to get it sent from the US. There's an opportunity here somewhere to corner the market.
Anyway I want to thank everyone for the sage advice and the reading materials. These slabs are quite large so I was a little daunted with the idea of starting. However after many encouraging posts I decided to have a go, if only on a scaled down version so I made a 'ski' box and a sled about 2'x4' and played around with some Cherry offcuts. I am very happy with the experience and also the results and now feel much better about starting my big project. So thanks to all of you who imparted advice, there are too many to mention which says a lot about the community here. Thankyou.
PS sorry the picture is odd, haven't sorted how to rotate images yet.
I just joined the forum recently as I'm new to routing. The reason was that I have come into possession of some Elm slabs and want to make some tables. I got a lot of really good advice on the 'introduce yourself' page about ski's and stuff and which bits might work. I'm in the UK and large diameter bottom planing bits appear to be hard to find ( Infinity were out of stock ). Someone recommended Freud bits but even then I had to get it sent from the US. There's an opportunity here somewhere to corner the market.
Anyway I want to thank everyone for the sage advice and the reading materials. These slabs are quite large so I was a little daunted with the idea of starting. However after many encouraging posts I decided to have a go, if only on a scaled down version so I made a 'ski' box and a sled about 2'x4' and played around with some Cherry offcuts. I am very happy with the experience and also the results and now feel much better about starting my big project. So thanks to all of you who imparted advice, there are too many to mention which says a lot about the community here. Thankyou.
PS sorry the picture is odd, haven't sorted how to rotate images yet.
