I opened my posting in the Board Building section, it seems only fitting to post this here.
Ladies, gentlemen, today was quite the day.
The youngest departed for college - the next oldest as well.
Another turned twenty one.
The house became cleaner, mung in the sink was cleaned out, a new board came out of the press, a StringRail rib set was prepped and my router died.
Not just any router, the router that had produced untold numbers of projects - boards, cabinets, dogbars, everything.
For more than twenty years.
The router that was older than many of my kids.
Time to move on.
Less goodbye, more maņana.
The Bosch is dead, long live the dead.
PM me if you'd like.
Brian, I am sorry for your loss.
It's hard when a tool dies.
You just have to look on the bright side. This now gives you the opportunity to go out and buy more tools. So try and be strong and buck up and head on down to the big boys toy store (Lowes, Ace, Sears, etc) and see what fun things they have for you to play with.
I know they don't make them like they used too but try and be strong.
Buck up my friend.
Buck up.
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Will longboarders be the new shortboarders?
I know how you feel, my dad has this electric drill that he's had longer than I've been born, both him and I have used it on countless projects....it would be sad to see it die.
Just don't buy the replacement at home depot, I've heard that on some models, the spec quality is acutally lowered to meet HD pricing requirements- including plastic gearing instead of brass as it is sold in other locations.
Your always better off going to a real hardware store. Get some real tools instead of play tools.
Do they still make real hardware stores? or has Lowe's and Home Depot bought them all out?
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Will longboarders be the new shortboarders?
very sorry to hear that, sir. It'll get better. oh and screw lowes and home depot...support local hardware stores!!! My teacher at guitar school knew a guy that basically lost everything he had because he owned a hardware store and Wal-Mart moved in down the street and ran him out of business, then he ended up working for them and started smoking... Down with Wal-Mart, too!!!
Oh, Momona Boe...what kind of guitars do you build, do you have a link where i could look at some of them. I build guitars too, and run a repair operation.
Haven't built any in many years - nothing really to look at. But I learned a lot! I bought that sander because I saw Bob Bennedetto using one in his video series on how to build an archtop.
I agree post some of it's finest work and RIP Bosch
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Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, cold beer in one hand - longboard in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming, Yeaa Haaa What A Ride!!!
Perhaps the best thing that router ever produced was a mortise/tenon/pegged walnut raised panel rocking crib that I gave to my sister nineteen years ago this coming Christmas.
I do not have a single picture of it.
Did a series of raised panel window shutters that were also mortise/tenon/pegged using recovered heart pine for a plantation home that was built in 1741 here in central Virginia - pics of that job wound up in Southern Living, Colonial Home and Architectural Digest.
The router was an essential part of the shop. Over the years, bazillions of fixtures, patterns, plates and other assorted tooling parts/pieces were built around it.
As for what it was turning out most recently, all of the current StringRail 32" slalom and kick flipper composite decks using the 1/8" BB patterns with foam inserts were coming off of it - # 4 is a carbon/kevlar variant that will be more of an all around-er. I'll put pics of that up next week before heading out of town and credit the router accordingly.
It died on the last piece of the GiVA track machining fixture being built to clamp decks to the milling machine used for producing the Two Bolt Main slots.
The End of an Era
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