Where can I buy a stand up router table

Dec 03, 2006 23 Replies

They're at

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The only one I cropped down is the first (to about 350 K). The others are pretty much straight from the camera (about 2 MB).

I used a piece of angle iron (like the one in the back of the cabinet holding on the back piece of plywood) to hold the middle shelf ledge in place.

I've been happy with this design, and re-used it for a jointer, sans wheels (needed more stability).

Morris,

Is this the one that you were asking about?

My shop is too small for a permanent dedicated router table. I keep meaning to build a combination table saw/router table station but people keep asking me to build them stuff.

I make do with a piece of 7/8 melamine that used to be part of a computer desk, with a cutout i made for a rousseau router plate mounted to a Hitachi - with a router raizer - supported by my workmate 550. When I don't need a table, the router and bits live in a big drawer underneath the SCMS, the workmate folds up and the tabletop goes up on the lumber rack. Takes about five minutes to set it back up. Oh, and I made a fence/dust collector that hangs on the wall but usually just ductaping the shopvac hose in the right place gets all the shavings.

The more I work with that setup the harder it is to justify that table saw/router station. I haven't found a task I'm unable to do with it. I suppose if I run across a project that calls for hours upon hours of router table work, it will seem a little more primitive.

Well, there were those times when the workmate was holding the top for the workbench I was building, and when I used it to stored the bed for the Griz jointer while I was hunting down somebody to help me get it assembled. That was several weeks when I didn't have a router table available. Or a workmate, for that matter. But it didn't hinder me much.

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