Pat Metheny Tribute to Mike Brecker

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Starting on Table 2

This is the track which will go in table one all cut out. I was able to take the two ends and push them together a bit and it forms a nice banked turn just like in Luf's video. It's going to be so cool!	Table 2 features this lane squeezing chicane which is one of the more trickier things to route. I originally wanted to have a bus stop chicane like at the Spa course in Belgium but I didn't really have a long enough section to do it on and it would be even more time consuming. So I settled for just a single chicane.	I used the plunge feature of my router to do the chicane and lane squeeze. It worked well. Unfortunately I broke my compass. But a Little duct tape repaired it enough to be usable.
You have to get a good view of the router bit in order to stop the router exactly at the right spot.	The second section with center slot completed. I had originally wanted to do this on one piece of MDF and then put a patch in for the section that goes under the overpass. But I am having second thoughts now. I still have plenty of MDF left. two whole sheets and plenty of extra from the cut out sections. It might be less work and smoother to just do the whole section which goes under on a separate sheet of MDF.	I cut out the overpass sweeping curve and laid it next to the section from table 1. It fits almost exactly. Jonathan was excited to see it too. The wife is a little worried about the size. I am hoping that once we get the furniture moved around and the track butted up against the wall, it will look good and still leave plenty of room.

A few notes:

• It's really fun to put down a fresh sheet of MDF and start thinking of how you are going to form it. Maybe kind of like a sculptor with a fresh stone to work with.
• Getting the slots aligned between the two sections of MDF went better than I expected. I just butted to first section up against the new MDF and marked it. I marked both edges of the slots so that I could be sure to have the router bit right in the center. The joint appears to be excellent and I don't think the cars will have any trouble.
• I'm leaning towards getting a variable power supply. I think I can get one for about $80. It would be much better to be able to turn down the voltage for Jonathan and his friends so that they don't get too frustrated by the speed.

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