My first Router Experience..

[Games001]

Well, I finally worked up the nerve, after months of reading scary tales of routers and the damage they can cause flesh and materials, to do a 3/4in Round Over on the edges of my upcoming MAME build.

And I have to say, well.. that was easy.

I moved in the right directions, kept the base flush with the material, sanded areas I feared the router might skip on... and the round over went smoothly, quickly, and without issue.  Even got the depth right on the first pass.  I am amazed at myself.

Thank you all, every voice both positive and wary, for helping me do my first router cuts without incident and without injury.

[shmokes]

It'll be a new love affair.  I remember having the same trepidation before using the router for the first time, and the same, "Hmm . . . that was easy," feeling afterward.  Now you will just start learning more and more things you can do with the most versatile of all tools.  My favorite is the template bit (sometimes called a pattern bit).  Get one of those immediately.

[Games001]

I have x2 of them   I know how hard it is to get the perfect side panel or the like for a cab, just the way one likes it.  Making two with such a bit will make my life far easier I am sure.

My next step is the round over of a trackball hole in my CP, then maybe a little rounding of the speaker holes and other such areas.

Then, with even more pause given, I will be trying my first CP Trackball route out... that should be a funny moment.