I am about to make a router table out of a piece of corian. It will be an awful lot easier to simply mount the router base to the corian than to buy a plate and cut and route out the corian to accomdate the base. Besides, with no base I don't have to worry about the base not being flush.When I asked about corian a few weeks ago someone said it wasn't rigid enough to hold a router. But wouldn't epoxying some oak supports across the bottom, just outside of the base, make it pretty darn rigid? (I might even epoxy the base to the table and eliminate all the screws. That ought to enhance rigidity.)So why are plates important?

Yes, if epoxy will stick.So you can take the router out easily.Mike

Why use a plate on router tables?

May 08, 2005 21 Replies

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Michael Daly 21 years ago

Store the router with the plate upside down - i.e. on top of the table instead of hanging underneath. That will produce a slight crown, which is not as bad (though a significant crown is). The Veritas router table is slightly crowned.

Mike

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Jim Weisgram 21 years ago

"Routerman" Pat Warner makes much the same case on his web site. There are other ways of dealing with accessing the router and a plate.

But I use the Veritas circular plate. The plate sits flush to 1-1/2" of MDF laminated to formica. With a little care you can have a very solid set up and flush as well.

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