Silestone router table top - a gloat

Any chance you could treat us to some pictures of this gloat router table?

I hope you are as happy with it as I am with my corian table. Of course, I had to pay $1 for mine at an auction, so it is not a big a gloat as free. (guy bought a huge pile of corian sheets for almost nothing. I asked him if I could buy some; he told me it was too much to carry anyhow, so I should take as much as I wanted for $5.)

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Here are some pictures of my new router table top

it!! It looks good. I bet it is smooth too.

On Feb 22, 12:10 pm, "Todd the wood junkie" wrote: [snipped a pretty cool post for the sake of brevity]

Funny thing is, that a friend of mine has all kinds of cook-top cut- outs and sink cut-outs made out of Hanstone, Silestone, Cambria, granite etc. How hard would it be to write a little routine for his CNC to make an inlet for a router plate?

Wondering what that could sell for.

What would anybody here pay for a nice slab of engineerded stone with a 12" x 12" phenolic plate...mmm...say 1/2" thick already included? The slab would be 1.25" thick and be about 17" x 24"? (Give or take a couple of inches, but never smaller)

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That is sweet!!!!, I asked a few months ago the same question about using a Granite slab, but I think yours woulld be a lot better.

How deep did they cut the recess for your plate? Also is this something aperson can do at home, as in making the cut out, or should a person leave it to the pros??

On 22 Feb 2007 09:10:49 -0800, "Todd the wood junkie" scribed:

That is just freakin' sweet!

Phred

It is quite simple. You just buy a template for the plate and route it out. Obviously it should be a deep as the plate. Yes, you can do it without a template, but that is rather complicated.

What's so complicated about it? The last one I did, I did myself because the commercial template for the plate I was using (Rockler) was a sloppy fit.

In Silestone? What bit are you going to use? That Silestone is 93% quartz.

The plate recess is a hair over 3/8 inch. My plate is 3/8 thick but the lip is only 1/4. I went deeper than necessary figuring it would be easier to shim than to skim!

With Silestone, I don't know of anyway to do this without the CNC and the special diamond bits that the shop used. I would not try this at home with this or granite. Maybe with Corian or similar.

Diamonds and lots of water and horsepower and very accurate rotational- and feed-rate speeds.

Corian and similar products, however, no problem. But why not use a plate completely made from solid surface? (Make sure it's an acrylic composition, the polyester variety is too brittle to be safe.)

I'm a little confused. You said the wife was unhappy, but you got the router table?

Did I mention how awesome a wife I have? Yes I do get the router table, but guess who gets to tell me what to make on that table...it's a beautiful circle!!

I did the same with corian. very nice smooth and flat top but also quite noisy. have since got a shaper and gave the RT away but built a smaller one for occasional use when i did not want to change a setup. the small one is MDF and is a whole lot quieter and has much less vibration. I hate MDF but i have to admit that it has some redeaming qualities.

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