1st router table

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Soylent1

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Hello!
Almost finished my first router table and I thought I'd share it with you all. It's nothing unique or innovative, just unashamedly copied from other people's designs and too much watching YouTube.

I built it around an old Elu mof177 which I've had for years and is an excellent router, but as its quite big and heavy I thought it'd work well in a table.

Top is made from 2 layers of 18mm birch ply, clamped to make sure it was flat and then glued and screwed.

I had some 2.5mm plastic coated aluminium skinned laminated sheet stuff left over from a shopfit job I did a couple of years ago so I topped the birch ply with this. I'm not 100% happy with it though....so it'll probably get changed at some point.

Rockler aluminium insert plate from amazon I think?, not too expensive and seems really good quality. T track and guard from woodworkers workshop and seem really good quality.

Ive just got some featherboards to make and some storage shelves/ boxes for bits and bobs underneath.

Apologies for the poor photos, I'm waiting for an electrician to come and connect the workshop electrics up as I'm running a small led lamp and extension as my main lighting/power at the moment.

Oh and spot the deliberate mistake/mistakes :rolleyes::LOL:
 

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Good job and well done.

Just a few thoughts. To help with reducing chip and dust going everywhere. Put a shelve underneath the router and cover the sides. At least they will be reasonably contained and help with cleaning up or make a box with vents to surround your router that is bolted to the table top - You can even add an extraction point to collect debris. You can then make a section underneath the shelve to store your router bits etc.
 
Good job and well done.

Just a few thoughts. To help with reducing chip and dust going everywhere. Put a shelve underneath the router and cover the sides. At least they will be reasonably contained and help with cleaning up or make a box with vents to surround your router that is bolted to the table top - You can even add an extraction point to collect debris. You can then make a section underneath the shelve to store your router bits etc.
Thanks, that's a great idea. And will make cleaning up a lot easier!
 
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