Diane Maluso
03-10-2004, 7:27 PM
A while ago, like months ago, I asked for advice about horizontal router tables and got loads of great advice. Well, I finally got around to building it and am well pleased with the result. I decided to follow two schools of thought:
1. less is more
2. scrap wood is good wood
So.. here it is. It's made from plywood and the router plate is a piece of phenolic I had lying around. It's all scraps. The table and fence surface are formica left over from my router table top. The whole thing clamps to my router table which lets me use that on/off switch to run this one. I had an old Ryobi plunge router that I hated using lying in a cabinet and have now dedicated it to this table. I don't like miter slots in router tables so decided to instead build a sled for helping to push the wood through the bit. Again, all from scraps.. that's why you see some extra screw holes here and there.
Thanks to everyone who gave me advice on this project.
Now.. on to sliding dovetails and some hanging shaker shelves!
1. less is more
2. scrap wood is good wood
So.. here it is. It's made from plywood and the router plate is a piece of phenolic I had lying around. It's all scraps. The table and fence surface are formica left over from my router table top. The whole thing clamps to my router table which lets me use that on/off switch to run this one. I had an old Ryobi plunge router that I hated using lying in a cabinet and have now dedicated it to this table. I don't like miter slots in router tables so decided to instead build a sled for helping to push the wood through the bit. Again, all from scraps.. that's why you see some extra screw holes here and there.
Thanks to everyone who gave me advice on this project.
Now.. on to sliding dovetails and some hanging shaker shelves!