Fishing Rod Holder

Greetings. I posted over in the troubleshooting category about an issue I was having with my most recent project. When looking back at a some of my past projects I realized that I had never shared a couple of them here, so I wanted to make a quick post to share some inspiration.

This project is a fishing rod holder made from 3/4" scrap plywood I had in the shop. The plans were purchased from a vendor on Etsy as a .svg file. The tool paths were created using Carbide Create Pro.

After cutting out all the pieces using the M4, I went over most of the edges using another router by hand with a round over bit, and then sanded everthing with random orbital sander. It is a simple but effective way to store some fishing poles that were previously leaning in various corners of the shop, and I’m happy with the results

For this project I used a high quality 1/4" compression end mill, with 600 mm / min feed rate and 12mm depth per pass. The DeWalt router in the M4 was on a speed setting of ā€œ4ā€, and the sled is hooked up to a shop vac using a Dust Deputy cyclone bucket.

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This is fantastic! You have impeccable timing too because I’m bringing back the project of the week competition tomorrow so these will be in the weekly update this week :grinning_face:

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Thanks @bar for the encouragement and support!

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