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Learnt quite a bit last night:
1. routers are limited and require more skill and knowledge that I expected/previous tools. More practise needed, but started to get the measure of it... Oh and they are fucking messy!
2. Cordless 1/4 routers rinse through little 8yo batteries.
3. Soft wood is a bit shit
4. Trust your measurements and cut to the right depth/space rather than going short and tidying after
5. I understand why all youtubers have table saws
6. I need to workout some sort of outdoor work table/upgrade to my dads knackered old workmate (how I wish I'd replaced the top before ply went ££££s 😭)
Anyway, making slow progress. I've been aiming to do a step each evening. Unfortunately last night was more of a learning curve and took longer than expected. So I have my half-laps 90% complete. If tidying them up tonight doesn't take too long then I may still be able to fix them together keeping me on schedule.

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Grumpy_Git in reply to @hugo7

For outdoor workspace make a couple of sawhorses and use some ply/mdf as a worktop. If needed screw some 2x3 to the underside as bracing.

That's probably the most useful workspace outside of my full workbench in the garage.

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