I’m working on a wet bar and had what might be a bad idea. I’m using solid butcher block for the countertop and some floating shelves. The butcher block is 10’ long and 1-1/2” deep. I need to cut a sink hole for a drop in sink on one slab, then I bought a second piece to cut down for shelves. For the shelves I’m planning on routing grooves top and bottom with a hole through it for LED lights.
My idea is to do all of the cutting on my Maslow. I’m set up in a vertical orientation. Good idea? terrible idea? ideas?
A safer option might be to cut templates on Maslow and use a follower router bit to then transfer those shapes into the butcher block. That gives you the option to make arbitrary shapes in CAD, but lets you double check everything before doing the final cuts.
I’m working on a wet bar and had what might be a bad idea. I’m using solid
butcher block for the countertop and some floating shelves. The butcher block
is 10’ long and 1-1/2” deep. I need to cut a sink hole for a drop in sink on
one slab, then I bought a second piece to cut down for shelves. For the
shelves I’m planning on routing grooves top and bottom with a hole through it
for LED lights.
1.5" deep is near the limit of the maslow, you will need to set the bit so it is
near the workpiece while the router is near the top of the travel (you have
about a 1/2" to play with here.
one thing you can do is have the maslow start the cut, then use a jigsaw to cut
the full thickness (well away from the edge of the cut) and then use a flush
trim bit to finish removing the material even with the initial cut.
It’s like using a template (which Bar suggested) but using the material itself
as your template
