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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