Router table amd storage cabinet

[Donnie Raines]

Well...I'm happy to say that I am officially back in the shop. It has come together nicely. Below is a router table I recently completed. It is made of rift sawn curly sassafras. The top was built useing some baltic birch ply laminated with melamine. The fence was made extra tall(almost 6 inchs) to accomdate certain jigs I will use for cutting various joints(slideing dovetails and the like). The unit stands about the height of a table saw and is 29 inchs deep by 35 inchs in lenght.

The storage cabinet is also made of rift sawn curly sassfras with a curly cherry door panel. The dovetails were cut by hand....and I decided to go with two large tails to minmize my work:rolleyes: . All of the doors were assembled useing stub tenons and pegged. I finished both projects with natural danish oil. Thanks for looking.

[Donnie Raines]

Cabinet pictures:

[Bernie Weishapl]

Donnie that is beautiful work. I like the router cabinet. Would like to make one like that only for a bench top.

[Corey Hallagan]

Wow, nice work Donnie. Both are great. That router table looks excellent!

Corey

[Bob Noles]

Donnie,

Nice work on both projects. I really like the simplicity in the design. The finish turned out really well. You are going to get a lot of really good use in return for your efforts.

Great Job!

[lou sansone]

excellent work.. wow... how long did it take to make those cabinets ? did you design them from scratch or plans..Sasafrass is an interesting wood. it never seems to rot. we have a bunch of it on my brothers property where we have out saw mill. I keep meaning to saw some up. What was the finish on the wood?

thanks
lou

[Donnie Raines]

excellent work.. wow... how long did it take to make those cabinets ? did you design them from scratch or plans..Sasafrass is an interesting wood. it never seems to rot. we have a bunch of it on my brothers property where we have out saw mill. I keep meaning to saw some up. What was the finish on the wood?

thanks
lou

Thanks for the comments guys.

The design for the router table is 'original' to me:cool: . The cabinet came from the latest issue of Fine Woodworking(though they used cherry and set the inside of the cabinet up diffrently.

I used a natural danish oil(about 3 coats) for the finish.

[Travis Porter]

Where did you get the start/stop switch? Looking for one of those myself.

[Donnie Raines]

Where did you get the start/stop switch? Looking for one of those myself.
I bought that at Rockler. HOWEVER, from the factory the chord hangs from the outside...kind of unsightly if you ask me. So I took the switch apart bored two holes on the back side of the switch(and through the cabinet) and ran the wires through the holes. That way nothing is hanging out.

[Jason Tuinstra]

Donnie, the projects look great. The wall cabinet looks especially nice - the dovetails add a nice touch.

[Dan Forman]

Donnie---Really nice looking cabinets. Never heard of using sasifrass for woodworking, but it sure looks good.

Dan