Lee DeRaud
06-29-2005, 2:03 PM
There was a discussion here a week or so ago about having the router table as part of the table saw. I've got a Ryobi BT3000 saw with the router mounted under the right-hand wing: it works pretty well, but the surface is small and the dust collection non-existent. But before I spent too much time/energy/money customizing that setup, I'd thought I'd explore some other possibilities.
Has anyone taken "the road less traveled" and made their router table really big...and combined the router table with the workbench? My current workbench has Issues (if not full subscriptions), and has worked its way onto the upgrade/replacement list. I'm toying with the idea of making a more-or-less standard router table, but about triple-size, effectively putting the router table portion crossways on the right-hand third of it. Fence system would run in T-slots: I've got a couple of chunks of T-slot inset in my current benchtop and it's one feature I'm definitely going to carry over to the new one. And the whole thing on wheels, at the same height as the saw.
Note: (1) obviously I am not a Neander and (2) yes, the car gets to sleep in the shop at night.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
(I saw a post in another thread that implied that someone else had already done this, but now I can't find it.)
Has anyone taken "the road less traveled" and made their router table really big...and combined the router table with the workbench? My current workbench has Issues (if not full subscriptions), and has worked its way onto the upgrade/replacement list. I'm toying with the idea of making a more-or-less standard router table, but about triple-size, effectively putting the router table portion crossways on the right-hand third of it. Fence system would run in T-slots: I've got a couple of chunks of T-slot inset in my current benchtop and it's one feature I'm definitely going to carry over to the new one. And the whole thing on wheels, at the same height as the saw.
Note: (1) obviously I am not a Neander and (2) yes, the car gets to sleep in the shop at night.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
(I saw a post in another thread that implied that someone else had already done this, but now I can't find it.)