Adam Boyer
01-14-2008, 11:52 AM
I consider myself relatively new to the game, and had been using a rockler router table that ultimately did not meet my needs. I looked at other designs, and then adapted as needed to come up with this one - I tried a lot of things I had never done before (make drawers, used my dovetail jig and lots of dadoing). Lots of lessons learned here... plywood is not so good for dovetail jigs, it is important to get drawer slides the same on both sides, and drawer slides are surprisingly expensive!... and so on...
Anyhow, the drawer fronts are lipped half bind dovetails made of cherry, the cabinet doors are padauk with ply inserts - all finished with tung oil and shellac... the rest of the cabinet is plywood with a MDF top unto which a woodpecker table top is attached along with an Incra Wonder Fence. I built this thing around my new Milwaukee 3.5 HP router (Santa was good to me last year) and got an accompanying Woodpecker PRL router lift...
The whole thing is about 40 inches tall, 20 inches deep and 29 inches wide... I have a few tweaks with the drawer slides on the right drawers and hook up dust collection, adjust the fence, and lift and then it will be ready for use...
Anyhow, the drawer fronts are lipped half bind dovetails made of cherry, the cabinet doors are padauk with ply inserts - all finished with tung oil and shellac... the rest of the cabinet is plywood with a MDF top unto which a woodpecker table top is attached along with an Incra Wonder Fence. I built this thing around my new Milwaukee 3.5 HP router (Santa was good to me last year) and got an accompanying Woodpecker PRL router lift...
The whole thing is about 40 inches tall, 20 inches deep and 29 inches wide... I have a few tweaks with the drawer slides on the right drawers and hook up dust collection, adjust the fence, and lift and then it will be ready for use...