Router table recommendations

Yep. Whatever floats yer boat.

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Larry Jaques
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Definitely considering building my own, not comfortable yet with some of the skills needed to put in t-track, inserts, etc.

Thanks for all the information to consider, now on out to the garage and stare at wood for a while.

Ralph

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Ralph Compton

---------------------------------- SFWIW, I built the NYW station using ONLY a Bosch saber saw, PC690 hand held router, ROS hand sander, a straight edge and a couple of clamps.

A friend allowed me access to his drill press which made life easier.

Have fun.

Lew

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Lew Hodgett

Thanks.

I think I will do it myself as that looks to be the only way I can afford something large enough to suit me. Cabinetry is no big thing, I've made various cabinets and have recently begun to make drawers. I am somewhat intimidated by the need for precision (flatness) in making the actual tabletop and insert. But I suspect I'll get over that. I especially like the idea that if I build it myself I can make a double-duty (or more) tool.

Ralph

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Ralph Compton

Definitely considering building my own, not comfortable yet with some of the skills needed to put in t-track, inserts, etc.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are not comfortable with that, build the professional version. Take a piece of plywood, drill a 1.5" hole in it. Mount your router to the board, centered on the hole. Flip the assembly over, set on saw horses, clamp to workbench or whatever is handy. Two C clamps and a strait board for a fence and you are in business.

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CW

I think I could probably handle that. One of my friends (a tile installer) calls it a jobsite router table.

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Reply to
Ralph Compton

I made a table last year. One thing I'm very glad I did was make it

46 inches high. It's a very convenient height.

You'll end up routing three slots. Two for the fence and one for the miter. I used a type of double slotted T track that has both miter and T track slots. You need the T track as a way to hold feather boards.

My top is two layers of 3/4 plywood. the base is glued and screwed together, and the whole thing is bolted to a top that it shares back- to-back with a sander. Very stable.

When you have to drill the insert to position your router, take the face plate from the router and mount it on the insert with a centering pin and hold it in place with double faced tape. The centering has to be perfect. The only way to do that is to use the faceplate as a drilling guide.

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of these wrenches comes in handy.

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's a dust collection port you can make easily. I generally don't like Gorilla glue, but I used it on this and it holds the PVC to the plywood. No signs of any problems.

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kimosabe

It's also nice to have one of these power switches at knee level:

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year when I was dealing with all this, a lot of the guys here gave me good advice. Here's a link to the thread. The third post by Neil Brookes helped clarify my thinking.
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kimosabe

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