Finished my router table.

[imahic]

I finally finished my router table a couple weeks ago and remembered to take the camera to the shop. I had bought the Kreg top last year while I was out on the road and just got around to having time to put the table together. I originally built it to replace another homemade table I bought at an auction but have decided to keep them both. I have the room and it is kind of handy to have them both available. I like being able to use the Kreg fence to joint a smooth edge on wood and it works pretty good for that purpose. I don't have a jointer and might not ever need one. We'll see. I do have a planer for flat work so the fence works good for me as a jointer.



The top drawers on each side are for router bits. 1/2 on the right and 1/4 on the left. The other small drawers are for all of the various tools and stuff for my routers. If it pertains to a router it is all located somewhere on this table.



The router is a big Ryobi plunge router that was on the other table I bought at the auction. The knob on the bottom is used to raise and lower the bit. My other table I put a router lift on and use a different router.



The bottom drawer is for extra routers, jigs and whathaveyou.



I used my PC router jig to make the dovetail drawers just for practice. On the bottom drawer I experimented with skip spacing for the dovetails. The manual said it could be done and it worked pretty good.





It's not fine furniture making but it was fun to make and I used it as an excuse to use my PC 4212 dovetail jig to learn how to cut dovetails. Works like a champ once you get the learning curve down. Thanks for looking.

[Ruffnek]

Looks great, Mike and learning a new tool while building one for the shop is always a win-win thing.

BTW, you're backwards, though. I keep my 1/4" shank bits on the right and the 1/2" shank on the left. ;D

Thanks for posting the pics. It's always fun to see what other woodworkers are up to and how their tools are set up. If I was into making cabinets, I'd build one of those triple router tables like Rebelwork has so that I wouldn't have to change rail, stile and panel raising bits. You are close to that with your dual router tables.

[Joe Lyddon]

Looks real GOOD!

[sawduster]

Almost to nice to go in the shop. Great job.

[imahic]

Thanks for the comments guys.

Cody, it wasn't by planning on the way the right/left thing worked out...lol.

Jerry, fortunately my photography skills are lacking enough to hide some mistakes....lol

[Beamer]

Looks great Mike!

At first I thought it was missing Stiles on the sides - but i see how you've got your bit drawers are right up to the inside which maximizes the width of those drawers.

I dig me a nice router table

[gomer]

Quality table. You did good.

[Doug B]

Great job Mike. I like that a lot. One of these days I'm gonna have to make me one of those to replace my little aluminum router table.

But, I thought you said "finished". I don't see any finish on that wood
You gotta at least put a single coat of film finish on it, right?

[imahic]

May 5, 2010 22:35:09 GMT -6 Doug B said:

Great job Mike. I like that a lot. One of these days I'm gonna have to make me one of those to replace my little aluminum router table.

But, I thought you said "finished". I don't see any finish on that wood
You gotta at least put a single coat of film finish on it, right?

Let me clarify "finished"....lol. It is finished enough to where I can use it. No plans to stain, paint, or anything else. ;D ;D ;D

Thanks for the kind words though.

[dcarter636]

That is real nice Mike; gotta make me one of those too, some day.

How do you cool the router motor?

[boodrow]

Mike very nice table , I need one bad , but my space is so limited I just dont have room for one. Anyway u did a great job on it.
Boodrow

[deepsplinter]

Yep, nice design. I'm sure you're gonna love it.

Good call on keeping the old one. Now & then the second one comes in handy.

Good call on not using store-bought drawer slides, too. I bought slides for my rolling sanding table (doubles as 2nd router table). Every time I roll it, about half of the drawers come open...a real pain.



Oh, nice hat, too.


Sorry Mr C, but , ¼" shank on the left and ½" shank on right is code around here.

[imahic]

Dave it is hard to see in the picture but I put a 4" DC outlet in the rear of the cabinet. You can just make it out on the bottom of the router. I hook the DC hose up to that and it pulls air in aroung the hole where the router bit is and the edge of the door. There is about an 1/8" gap around the edge of the door.

[dcarter636]

I see it now, it blended in with the router end cap.
Sucking chips with a 4" hose sounds mighty adequate!

[Leo Voisine]

Nice,

My Router table get used a lot in my my shop.

It does soo much stuff.