John Ziebron
04-22-2021, 10:35 AM
I think it was about 35 years ago when I was getting into more serious woodworking that I saw Norm build what would be his first router cabinet. It was heavy duty and very basic with no drawers but good dust collection.
Since getting a Woodpecker lift and fence last year it was time to build. This is my new cabinet with more storage than I could hope for for just router bits and accesories.
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The top is 43" x 27" and I used the same 22" soft close slides from my recent kitchen cabinet upgrade. The cabinet, including the drawer fronts, is made from a sheet of 3/4" solid core plywood that I acquired a couple of years ago.
One problem with the old cabinet that plagued me at times was keeping the router plate level. Some of you will likely say I went overboard with my solution to permanently fix this issue. The top is made up of 2 pieces of 3/4" MDF and so I routed the underside of the upper MDF piece and epoxied 4 strips of 1/8" thick metal before the 2 pieces of MDF were glued together.
456523
Here is a picture of the top with it's hard maple edging before the formica was glued on both sides.
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Since the new lift allows the router to come up all the way for bit changes and with a remote speed control knob below the magnetic power switch there should be no need to me to ever go into the underside cavity space like I had to constantly do with the old cabinet.
Since getting a Woodpecker lift and fence last year it was time to build. This is my new cabinet with more storage than I could hope for for just router bits and accesories.
456516
The top is 43" x 27" and I used the same 22" soft close slides from my recent kitchen cabinet upgrade. The cabinet, including the drawer fronts, is made from a sheet of 3/4" solid core plywood that I acquired a couple of years ago.
One problem with the old cabinet that plagued me at times was keeping the router plate level. Some of you will likely say I went overboard with my solution to permanently fix this issue. The top is made up of 2 pieces of 3/4" MDF and so I routed the underside of the upper MDF piece and epoxied 4 strips of 1/8" thick metal before the 2 pieces of MDF were glued together.
456523
Here is a picture of the top with it's hard maple edging before the formica was glued on both sides.
456524
Since the new lift allows the router to come up all the way for bit changes and with a remote speed control knob below the magnetic power switch there should be no need to me to ever go into the underside cavity space like I had to constantly do with the old cabinet.