The router table

To make the gunwales, I needed to round over the edges of the 2x1. With nearly fifteen linear metres to do, a router table was called for.

Rather than spend eighty quid at Screwfix, the solution was to clamp the router in my workmate. The block on the left is the guide fence, and the block on the right is the safety fence to keep fingers away. The router power switch if held on with a clamp, and a circuit breaker allows me to turn it off and on easily.

Using a rounding over bit, the job was done in twenty minutes.