Hello Robert,

I just looked at your pictures. Did you have the table set up so you were running your stock between the fence and the bit ? ? ? THAT IS A BIG NO NO ! ! ! Not only is it likely to give you an inconsistant cut, but it is very dangerous. In my younger more foolish days, I shredded a finger doing that.

: Greetings, Y'all.

: I got creative today and finished up a project I wanted to get done
: so that I could complete a different project. I needed a router
: table but I wanted something inset into my work bench. I
: searched the city for some kind of gadget that I could use but
: found nothing until I was on the verge of building my own
: device. I bought a few bits to make my own router holder when I
: discovered the Ryobi portable table at Home Depot. I calculated
: that to build my own device the cost would be not far from the
: cost for the Ryobi table, so I bought the Ryobi. Unfortunately,
: the table came with an unwanted router. I already own a Porter
: Cable router. I suppose owning two routers isn't a bad
: thing...just have to figure out how to use both at once and I
: could route strips for a kayak pretty quickly. The following
: link takes you to the images of my little creation. I am sure
: there are others who have done something similar so I won't
: patent the idea any time soon.
: http://www.flickr.com/photos/14373615@N03/sets/72157622907049954/detail/
: The next step in this process is to figure out how to get a shop
: vac hose set up to suck up all the wood chips. The project I am
: working on these days is a couple of oak framed display cases to
: be used in memory of someone who died recently. They will
: display autographed hockey jerseys with photographs of Wayne
: Gretzkey and the man who died: he was an ardent hockey fan.

: Robert N Pruden