Remember that router you gave us years ago? I'm ashamed to admit that up until a few weeks ago, we hadn't used it, but I'm pretty sure we (and when I say "we," I mean my husband) made up for lost time. Behold B's first creation:
He made this out of 2x4s and some pickets. Noticed how every single piece of wood was routed and fit together perfectly.
You might be asking yourself, what is this contraption? Well, it's the homemade version of this:
We needed one for a project and since we couldn't afford the "real" one, B looked at it and said, "I can make that." And he did. It boggles my mind how he fitted all those boards and clamps and brackets and who-knows-what-else into one perfectly functioning table, but he did. That table, combined with this crazy homemade heating tube (that he also just figured out how to make on his own... in the words of my sister-in-law, he's "some kind of genius")
a homemade version of this $5,000 machine
are going to allow us to take these
to make a deck. So just think, your router is going to allow us to build this:
Kinda crazy, huh?
P.S. So it turns out that the downside to either our heater or the commercially-sold version is that they get overheated easily, which is obviously a problem in the summer. Because last night was cool, B and I pulled an all-nighter to do some board bending. I got home at 4:45 this morning and he got home even later. So today I maybe don't love your router quite as much as I did yesterday. ;)
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