HI All,
This is my first post here, I do a bit of diy and want to do little more wood working
I'm want to rearrange my shed and build a better workbench. My space is very tight.
So I use my mitre saw a lot, but it takes up a lot of space, so for this I'm going to build a flip top. So when it upright it will be at the same level as the bench, the other flipped side will be a flat bench.
I also have a benchtop router table, it's some weird make PIngtek, but it's basically a blue version of the lumberjack table here
It takes up a lot of space when in use, if I put on the bench its a bit high, so i tend to put it on a lower stand, but then it hard to move around and I don't want to rearrange my workshop every time i use it. The new bench will below so I will have space to build a router table into it: so two thought, well three really
While typing this, I think the solutions has become a little clearer, option 1 and if that does not work well I can look a building a new table router into the space.
This is a bit of a ramble, just trying confirm the direction to go
Thoughts
Thanks
This is my first post here, I do a bit of diy and want to do little more wood working
I'm want to rearrange my shed and build a better workbench. My space is very tight.
So I use my mitre saw a lot, but it takes up a lot of space, so for this I'm going to build a flip top. So when it upright it will be at the same level as the bench, the other flipped side will be a flat bench.
I also have a benchtop router table, it's some weird make PIngtek, but it's basically a blue version of the lumberjack table here
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It takes up a lot of space when in use, if I put on the bench its a bit high, so i tend to put it on a lower stand, but then it hard to move around and I don't want to rearrange my workshop every time i use it. The new bench will below so I will have space to build a router table into it: so two thought, well three really
- Do I make a low shelf in the bench and sit the router in it, with a cut out in the bench the same size as the table top so router fits snuggly in at the same level of the bench: the fence is not great so I could look at making a better one, that fastens to the surrounding bench
- Dismantle router table using all the innards, motor, stop go, lifter etc and build a new table around it: this could be a good option but I will need to work out how I can fix motor and lifter to new table top, but is it worth it?
- Buy new and build a router into bench.: expensive and wastes my existing router
While typing this, I think the solutions has become a little clearer, option 1 and if that does not work well I can look a building a new table router into the space.
This is a bit of a ramble, just trying confirm the direction to go
Thoughts
Thanks