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Router Table Extension

Project by Bruce posted 151 days ago 850 views 2 times favorited 8 comments Add to Favorites Watch

Well, I guess this really is not complete but I had to get these pics out of the camera b 4 I could take more of the completed project. This is a project I s’pose you could say I started in 1973! I made a walnut and oak cutting board for my mother for Christmas that year, in high school woodshop. Since then, it had warped a bit and had a 3/16 layer of pizza grease and beer on it. So, I scraped it down, cut it into 3 pieces and surfaced it smooth and square via jointer and thickness planer. Then, after I glued it back together, my buddy Dan Pleska came to the rescue once again with his wide sander. I took a “Stanley” L bracket and cut it in half, mortised it into the edges of the router plate recess to keep the plunger things from tearing out the wood as i remove it. It has 4 coats of poly on top, 3 on the sides and 2 on the bottom. I bought Norm’s router table plan just to make the fence for it and adapted it to bolt to my TS fence. And, since I had the plan I figured I might as well build the base cab too. I’ll post it as a seperate project.


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Dan Pleska

108 posts in 840 days


posted 151 days ago

Wow! That turned out real nice, Bruce. That fence is a beast too. Good job. Thanks for the post.

-- Dan, West Virginia, http://www.danpleskaCreations.com

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Bureaucrat

6922 posts in 531 days


posted 151 days ago

Good reuse of material. It looks marvelous! Do the fence rails hold it up or is there additional attachment paraphernalia used?

-- Gary, South Central Wisconsin. So much to learn, so little time!

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a1Jim

15600 posts in 456 days


posted 151 days ago

That’s some super router table. well done.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

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blockhead

268 posts in 187 days


posted 151 days ago

That’s one of the coolest tables I’ve seen. Great job and thanks for sharing.

-- Brad, Oregon- Wood, it's what's for dinner.

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Sawdustonmyshoulder

168 posts in 507 days


posted 150 days ago

Hey, guys and gals, this might be a great use for all of those Woodwhisperer cutting boards that all of us have made. Yeah, I got one too.

Bruce, you done good! I like it!

-- Makin' Sawdust!!!

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Bruce

90 posts in 654 days


posted 150 days ago

Thanks, everyone. It is actually bolted to the tablesaw and might be a frog hair lower so the fance will slide over it. The router is out of it until I get the cab done. It will have adjustable feet (bolts) to raise it up, just right, to level the top. I feel like I otta be gettin paid for all this work!

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tmiller

90 posts in 192 days


posted 150 days ago

Love the fence.

Thanks for posting the pics.

-- All trees have projects inside of them, it is your job to get them out.

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JasonWagner

84 posts in 59 days


posted 55 days ago

So cool…I think fun stuff like this is great…good job. On my last saw I had all Corain inserts that matched our countertops in the kitchen…good use of something quality and looks neat too.

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