Reggie
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Hi Guys, I've finally almost finished my bench, so now I'm looking at the router table to do next, the router table that I have was donated to me by my Father and was part of a shopsmith 5 setup, a nice thick lump of something laminated top/sides with a mitre slot cut along it's width.
The router table top as it stands only has the single mitre slot as mentioned, I'm wondering if this is enough, or whether I should look at trying to add a pair of slots to give me some front to back action? I was thinking of building the carcass for the router table a couple of inches bigger either side of the table top, which would allow me to leave the shopsmith router table top intact, then just add some side pieces the same height as the table with slots cut into it to accept aluminium mitre slot. Does this sound like a reasonable idea.
I thought slots down the side would give me a reasonable method of attaching a fence without any restrictions, if accurately placed it can also be used as an accurate method for lining up cut marks etc. and would also allow me to use sleds/jigs.
I'm not really interested in building my own table top from scratch at the moment, the shopsmith is a nice solid thick 460mm x 600mm top which looks way better than the flimsy looking things I've seen on rutlands/axminster going for < £100 , I've got plenty of mitre T-slot to play with (a cheap deal from rutlands).
Regards,
Reggie.
The router table top as it stands only has the single mitre slot as mentioned, I'm wondering if this is enough, or whether I should look at trying to add a pair of slots to give me some front to back action? I was thinking of building the carcass for the router table a couple of inches bigger either side of the table top, which would allow me to leave the shopsmith router table top intact, then just add some side pieces the same height as the table with slots cut into it to accept aluminium mitre slot. Does this sound like a reasonable idea.
I thought slots down the side would give me a reasonable method of attaching a fence without any restrictions, if accurately placed it can also be used as an accurate method for lining up cut marks etc. and would also allow me to use sleds/jigs.
I'm not really interested in building my own table top from scratch at the moment, the shopsmith is a nice solid thick 460mm x 600mm top which looks way better than the flimsy looking things I've seen on rutlands/axminster going for < £100 , I've got plenty of mitre T-slot to play with (a cheap deal from rutlands).
Regards,
Reggie.