Router Table Fence #1: It's not pretty but...

Great adaptation!

Lew

Great pics of the fence Lee. I hope to be building one of these myself one day.

-- bryano

Thanks guys;

If I had to go back to using a router table instead of a shape, this would definitely be the fence I would use.

Lee

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I have a big butcher block slab that I am considering for use as a router table top myself. I got it from the clearance section of Ikea and it is slightly cupped. I have been trying to decide if I can flatten by running two boards across front to back to pull the cup down flat.

-- //FC - Round Rock, TX - "Experience is what you get just after you need it"

Hi Steve;

I read this an hour and a half ago and got side tracked reading your blog on the miter saw station.

Depending on how bad the cup is, I’m sure you can do something with it.

I assume it’s pre finished, so adding some water to the cup, wouldn’t help.

Another option is to mount it to the cabinet in such a way as to be able to tighten up the screws gradually and pull the cup down, (assuming that’s the bottom side).

Adding cleats, as you mentioned, to the bottom can also work if they’re substantial enough.

The final solution is to plane the top flat again. The advantage to this is it is your not fighting the board.

It won’t have a tendency to return to the warped shape.

Hope this helps.

Lee

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I was thinking about using some 8/4 maple strips jointed and planned flat and be about 2” x 2” with tapers front and back. These strips would be placed so they land outside of the router cabinet. I am thinking that they would be strong enough to pull them down.

Planning would mean at least one rip if not two to get it though the planner and I’d rather not. If it is that bad I will re-purpose it on another project.

The water idea is not bad, but I would have to strip it and I am unsure of what type of glue that was used.

-- //FC - Round Rock, TX - "Experience is what you get just after you need it"

Hi Steve;

The cleats idea should work.

Another way of planning the wood is a sled set on rails for you router.

Another idea is relief cuts, part way through the bottom of the piece, running with the cup.This to would relieve the tension within the board.

Any number of ways will work just fine.

Lee

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Lee looks like a great addition. Is there any chance of posting larger photos?.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Lee,
From what I can see it looks like the kind of fence I need for the table I’ll be building in about a month from now. I have been throwing different designs around to find what I have been looking for.
Some bigger pic;s would sure be nice, if it wouldn’t be to hard. I still have to get a digital camera so I can post some stuff. So I have no idea what it takes to post them large or small??
Very well built to last for twenty years in a pro shop. Not to shabby for something thrown together on site.

-- Ed - Milan, IN

HI Guys;

I assume you are clicking om the pictures, and these too aren’t big enough?

Let me know, and I see what I can do.

Thanks for the comments.

Lee

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Sorry Lee, my mistake. I was looking at the first photo, it does’nt enlarge.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Hey Tony;

I was just checking the photos.

They’re all messed up.

I guess I outsmarted myself, AGAIN.

Lee

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