2X2 hardwood stock?

[BeauxTi]

Found this Router table plan and really liked it http://www.scottmoore.net/projects/router/index.html , seemed simple and something I could do as my "First Cabinet". went to the box store - no 2X2 stock - called the other box - no 2X2 stock - called a couple of the local yards (Austin / Round Rock area Texas) no 2X2 stock. Once again I am in the black hole of building supplies. As cloony said in "o'brother where art thou" - I live in a geographical anomaly - everything is 2 weeks away. Any of you in the central Texas area have a line on 2X2 hardwood stock? or if I can't find it - maybe a way to fuse 2 1X2s? Looking for the leg uprite stock. thanks in advance for the help.

[LCHIEN]

Rockler has 3x3 x 36" turning stock in hardwood that would make excellent legs:
http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?p...3&site=ROCKLER

more square blanks - maple 1.5 square and 2.0 square
http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?p...9&site=ROCKLER

[cabinetman]

You could try a good lumberyard, looking for 8/4 stock.

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[pelligrini]

Asking a true lumberyard for some eight quarter or larger material is what you want. It'll probably be wider than 2", but you can rip it down to size.

You could glue togeather a couple 1x2s or 1x3s from the borg and modify the design for 1 1/2" legs or 1 1/2"x2". The chop on my leg vise is three pieces of 1x8 red oak from the borg. It ended up being a little over 2" thick after face jointing and thicknessing.

[JR]

My guess is that when the article mentions 2"x2", it really is refering to 1-1/2" x 1-1/2". Glue together some 3/4" stock from Home Depot and you're good to go.

JR

[LCHIEN]

I looked at the plans, for a router table, I'd just get a straight 2x4 and rip it into two 2x2 and square them up.

You don't really need hardwood for a router table. Unless you are trying to make a fine furniture grade shop item.

[Dal300]

Heck, come on up here to Franklin and cut your own. We have lots of oak down that I'm cutting up and burning.

Bring a chainsaw, you can't borrow mine! LOL.

[BeauxTi]

I found some Poplar at a lumberyard in Austin call Fine Lumber - have a feeling I will need to keep that place in my back pocket. they have a pretty good selection.