Bottom base from Mike Senna's Plans

So my last post was in July 2013 and it is now April 2014. Time flies....but I have managed to tell myself that I need to do this so....today I did that very thing. I created the base of the frame. See image below:

I like to think that I did a pretty good job considering I never really worked with wood before. So this piece is from Mike Senna's R2-D2 plans from the R2 Builders Club. I used a jigsaw to cut as close to the edge and then I used a router to finish the rest. Then I used a drill to drill a hole in the wood for the center cutout and then used the jigsaw to cutout the rectangle. Then the router was used to cut the grooves. For anyone that reads this: some of the router groove are rather close together so take you time otherwise the router will take away the partitions. All the grooves are to 1/2" mainly cause I could not find a specific value. So I went with 1/2" and it should work.

To give an idea of what it should look like see below:

Also note that the one on the bottom is CNC cut and fortunately this more than likely not to be seen. I think next time I will by one of those aluminum frames. They are nice but rather expensive.