I spent a few hours the other day working on a little project for Amy. Basically, she wanted some A-frames with dowels sticking through to hang some of her yarn projects on for an upcoming craft show. I took the idea and ran with it, adding a hinge at the top so it could collapse for storage.
So, I felt really good as I worked with some scrap would getting a hinge set and a good hole diameter for the dowels. It was the first time I used any boring bits and it was really easy. After I played around with my test pieces, I went forward and built a full-size prototype and showed it to Amy. Everything worked perfectly, so I know exactly what to do to make the 2' versions.
But then I wanted to route the edges and that's where my skills fell apart. I have just never been good at routing. I spent the next two hours screwing around with the router, trying to get its height adjusted and ended up with it taken apart on my worktable. I eventually got it all back together and working, but my routed edges still suck.
I'm going to have to work on that a bit more before I can finish the prototype...
deek