![]() ![]() Your laminated plywood rails will have a lot more friction, that's why I suggested putting some flat grain plywood on top of them. It slides like a dream on the jointed 2 x 4 rails. Julie, if you go back and look at my crude router sled above you will see that the bottom of the gantry is just a piece of 1/2" plywood. One thing I do like is there is plenty of room to tighten the knobsīut dialing in a precise elevation will be tricky.Īnd I will have a good view of the work being done And it doesn't slide nearly as well as when the UHMW was parallel to the rail. The UHMW are only 3/4" wide so that kind of defeats that transfer issue I was trying to address. The reason I made the wing box so wide is I wanted to reduce transferring any imperfections in the rail onto the slab. What I was thinking was putting plywood on the bottom and covering it with a sheet of 1/4" UHMW. I was going to make the wing box with a bottom but I didn't think the plywood would slide all that well, even with a few coats of poly. But you make a great point the router will catch at some point. Will have to do a dry run and see how that goes. When the sled is close to the end, I am able to get my hands on both router handles but once I'm about two feet from the end, I can no longer do that. ![]() I thought that's why Offerman used the top hold method. The reason I didn't question the Offerman method of holding the top of the router is I thought there would be times I would be unable to reach the two handles on the router. I suppose I could do what you suggested and double laminate one side. I made the sides of the sled tall to minimize sag. ![]()
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