I have been very fortunate. Although I've been to the hospital several times for stitches or other injuries, it has never been due to an accident with a power tool. It's hand tools that get me every time. Many, including me, don't think about injuries with hand tools until it happens. One doctor, as she was stitching up my finger, wanted to know why I was using a scalpel at home. When I told her it was a chisel, she was amazed that a tool at home I sharpened myself could produce such a clean cut. Oddly, I was beaming with pride as she was stitching up my stupidity. Seriously though, with power tools, especially the table saw, I rehearse my cuts before I do them. Where will my hands be before, during, and after the cut? Do I have enough outfeed room to complete the cut? The router is now on the top of my list for rehearsals. If I can save someone some trouble, some money, some time, or most importantly, their fingers, then I have been successful. Thank you for noticing.

Well I'm one of the unfortunate ones to experience a table saw injury. Lost the tip of my left thumb. It's still fully functional and I'm still in the craft but I know how quickly it happens and so I cringe when good examples aren't set. Ignorance is no excuse but had I been taught better my accident wouldnt have happened. Safety has become very important to me. Thanks for be a good example.

I'm glad too. For some reason, having the router in a table meshes well with the way my brain works. I feel so much safer, and (knock on wood), I haven't had the same kind of mistakes using the router in a table.

Yeah, I forgot to mention that I did cut the slots over size, because I don't want runners interacting with the table at all. Having the alignment block is my insurance. Thanks for the comment, and thanks for watching.

I've thought long and hard about this since the "incident." I will rarely use a full size router free hand because of the ergonomics. They feel too detached from the workpiece because of the distance from the work surface to the handles. My prediction is that I wouldn't have had a full size router fly out of my hands, but I probably would have boogered up the work surface. That's a good trade in comparison to boogering up fingers, but I'm much more comfortable using the big routers in a table. I guess I just need more practice. Thanks for watching and commenting.

I get my extrusions from Misumi USA. They are much less expensive than the extrusions you can buy from woodworking stores. They will also cut them to the exact length you need, so you can order exactly. The size I use for my table saw fence and as an attachment to my miter gauge is 20mm x 80mm. It can be found here: us.misumi-ec.com/vona2/detail/110302684870/?Inch=0 I have three other videos where I use the extrusions. Hope this helps. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bJ6XlZRixJjVcoE.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fdR8eqyp2JPNY6c.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oNGIaKR5tp-ul5s.html

I forgot to mention in the video that I did go over size on the slots, so that the runners wouldn't interact with the table at all. The alignment block makes that the case every time. Thanks for watching.

I could have done that, and should have done that. But I was shook up, and apparently not thinking clearly. I can tell you what I was thinking at the time, was that because of the orientation of the straight edge I was using as a guide, I'd have to plunge the router, and there was no way I was going to do that. Looking back, I could have moved the straight edge to the other side of the cut, and eased into it, making a way safer cut. I'm constantly amazed at how a fresh set of eyes on a problem can teach me something. I should have walked away, gave my brain a break, and attacked the problem with a clean slate. I truly appreciate the comment.

@@FranklinWoodWorks2016 Like I said, Adrenalin, ain't it great? Good job though. I like it!