Subject: Anyone has a good plan for homemade router table.

From: [email-masked] (FP1)
Date: 27 Mar 1997 16:24:13 GMT

I'd like to make my own rather than buy something that I will regret later
on.
If you have any good tips/plans for a homemade router table please let me
know.
Thanks
Frankie

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From: "John Hofstad-Parkhill" <[email-masked]>
Date: 28 Mar 1997 03:53:30 GMT

> I'd like to make my own rather than buy something that I will regret
later

I'd like to argue against that for just a minute. Getting beyond some
subjective design considerations.

There are several sources for ready made router table tops that are cost
competitive and ready to roll. Actually quite a wide variety. Considering
the cost of a sheet of laminate material here ($30) and a sheet of ? MDF or
particle board ($20) for a few dollars more you can have a top ready to fly
- including the insert plate ($12..$20). Obviously I'm assuming you don't
have these materials already, and that you'd buy them new & complete.

Anyway, a good reference for parts & ideas can be found in the Woodhaven
catalog - just about any router gizmo under the sun. Also the AW router
table modified by Norm seems to be popular, although I'm not a fan of the
raising mechanism. But who am I to judge ? I've not seen it in action.

It surely would help if you knew what you wanted in a plate beforehand and
what type of fence you're planning on. I have an assortment of incra-jig
attachments all the way to their new fence, which I don't recommend.
However, I'm a big fan of the incra-jig (pro) and would not consider a
router table without it or something very much like it.

Many also make their own "shaper style" fences.

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From: "Woody" <[email-masked]>
Date: 28 Mar 1997 04:02:03 GMT

American Woodworker #44 has a great router table plan.  This plan is also
the basis of Norm's router table.  You can buy a video and plans for
Norm's.  You can get the address at the end of his show.
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From: [email-masked] (LEE WARD)
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 97 15:24:00 -0600

The library is still the best place to get free plans and generally the
last place anyone looks,,If you have a nice Saw deck then drill a few
holes in it and make a router table outta it,,I think the router tables
that let ya lift the router up still connected to top are best..
                          LW

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From: Adam Whiteson <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 07:59:44 -0700

I am looking for the name & number of the bandsaw blade supplier who
sells low tension
BS blades.  I believe their name is  P.S Machinery or P.S. Wood
Machinery or the like.

I bought a couple of blades from them on the recommendation of a post in
this news group
and they do a wonderful job of resawing.  Absolutely no drift. 
Unfortunately, I lost the ordering info.

I am grateful for your help

			Adam

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 21:18:36 -0600

> If you have any good tips/plans for a homemade router table please let me
Counter top sink cut outs are a good size for making router tables and
table extensions. They don't warp and are smooth. Many lumber yards and
home improvement centers sell the cutouts at scrap prices.

If you have plastics company in your area they will sometimes sell scrap
at a reduce price. If you use LEXAN for the table insert use carbide
blades and bits or the plastic will melt rather than cut.  You may want
to make several insets to accomodate different bit diameters. Use 3/8"
to 1/2" to prevent sagging.

For precision and flexiblity you may want to invest in a quality fence.
One of the other responses mentions a source for attachments, Eagle
American also has a wide variety of overpriced attachments. Or you could
just clamp a straight board on the table and go to it. If you do make
your own table take the time to add safety gaurds, they don't have to be
inconvienient to be usefull.

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From: Andrew Scott Beals <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 00:18:04 +0000

> If you have any good tips/plans for a homemade router table please let me

1. Make a table
2. Put a hole in it.
3. Mount the router centered at the hole's center.

Actually, if you look at the little Dremel router table, you'll see that
it has a few positions to screw the right half of the fence into and a
slider for the left half.  At first this seems Quite Silly [to quote
Monty Python], but if you use it, you'll see that it's a FANTASTIC idea
that I have yet to see in a commercial router table -- they all have
fences where they zip back in tandem [supposedly], leaving you to get
the bit-fence distance correct if you're going to make an eensy-weensy
adjustment.
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From: [email-masked] (Garrett Lambert)
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 14:01:46 GMT

FWW has a table design in one of its books - forget which one - which
takes care of the particular problem you mention. The fence is simply
attached to the table at one end, and pivots. The "free" end is then
clamped in whatever position from the bit you like. Very simple and
very effective.

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From: "Michael R. Dow" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 08:50:14 -0600

> clamped in whatever position from the bit you like. Very simple and

In the most recent CMT catalog they've got a top, insert and stand for
sale separately... The top looks VERY easy, especially if you're going
to be using a TS extention... The plates look OK... I might buy one from
them.

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From: [email-masked] (Edward & Grace Jonke)
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 10:26:54 -0500

> If you have any good tips/plans for a homemade router table please let me
 
  Check Norm Abram's router table. IMO it's the best design of any I've
seen.He made the table on one of his New Yankee workshop segments. Plans
sell for $10.

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From: [email-masked] (Steve Rehrauer)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 17:16:58 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (LEE WARD) writes:
>last place anyone looks

I think I've seen you make that assertion before in this group.  YOUR
library may be a good source, but my town library tends to be heavy on
woodworking books from the 60s through 70s, which (for power tools and
jigs & fixtures for same, at any rate) are usually useless.

A few more recent titles are trickling in lately (the NYWS books).  But
I'd guess the bulk of their buying goes to support the latest mystery &
romance best sellers.

Mind, I'm not complaining.  Much <g>.  Yeah, I support them (Friends
Of the Library & all that), and yeah I do suggest titles to them.  But
they only have so much money, which they (rightly, IMO) choose to spend
on what The Public wants.  I just get a little tired hearing that people
asking for help/plans here are subnormal for not finding them at their
local libraries.  --Steve
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From: [email-masked] (Bernie Hasselman)
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 17:56:40 GMT

An excellent book that you might check out is Router Jigs and
Techniques. by Spielman (sp?) 
He has a number of jigs and tables that can be made at home, simply.

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From: Jim Dalton <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 15:44:18 -0500

There was a New Yankee Workshop segment a few months ago about building
a router table.  You can buy a video tape of past shows which includes
plans by calling an 800 # which appears at the end of every show.  Check
your public TV listings

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From: [email-masked] (David Anderson)
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 18:08:10 GMT

>asking for help/plans here are subnormal for not finding them at their

Steve, 

First, kudoos for supporting your local library!

Maybe your library does not have what you need, but how do you know
before you look?  I think Lee Ward is simply suggesting the the
original poster take a look for low cost alternatives before posting. 

I cannot get all that I need, but the libraries here in the Denver, CO
metro area, but  as a group they do have quite a bit to offer.  Do not
overlook junior college or tech school libraries!

Also, do not forget that the libraries also carry magazines.  If they
do not offer a good woodworking magazine, make a suggestion!  You can
even start them off with your own collection and a one year
subscription. <g>