Router table rebuild, 2nd time's a charm?

impressive! looks slick :)

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realy nice ,
still have to do something like this myself ,
i’ll be sure to put some of your ideas
in mine .
the roller is a good idea .

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

I wish my router table was that nice!
You’ll sure get a lot of use out of that!

-- Eric

Very well designed this time around, I think i like the roller better than a featherboard. Great job on this

-- James, Bluffton, IN

Hey Daniel
cool router table I like the roller too.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

The roller definitely looks better than the feather board.. although the anti kickback feature of the feather board can also be useful.

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I agree degoose. I thought of maybe putting a small spring clip ahead of the roller that the wood would push through. Sort of like one stiff feather of a featherboard but made of thin spring steel. The kickback on a router table isn’t quite like a table saw and you’re not behind the wood but it is there and I have experienced it. Not fun at all.

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Nice job! Looks nice and functional!

-- Joe-Carver, MN

Good job . Thanks to the router gods for T-Track ! LOL

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Hi Daniel

Very nice router table

I also use the “Feeder Roller” on the table saw and the router table but without the “Pivot lock” as you do…
My pivot is “changeable” in distance to fit the various widths of the boards and not to cross the “blade line” that can lead to an accident…

I have somewhere the “how to” for the “feeder roller” but couldn’t find it or maybe….I didn’t post it here…

Regards
niki

Yes niki.

I just used the roller for the first time on my router table rabitting some long pieces of oak stock. It held the outfeed end nicely and left my other and and attention to safety and on what I was doing.

I want to make one like your’s too for my table saw. I have no featherboards. Do you hold the pivot against the board by hand? Yours doesn’t lock down right? Seems to me that I’d rather hold a pivot. Right now I use a piece of board on the side to hold things against the fence as I push.

I like your high push block too. Mine is similar but the handle is about half as high. I’m going to redo it. I’d love tot have a sawstop but that’s not going to happen, so for now I like to get as far away from the blade as I can and still get an accurate cut.

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Hi Daniel

For you and everybody else that likes to see….

As you can see, I’m using a dowel that fits to the miter slot (my miter slot is only 3/8” wide) and shift the dowel in the holes for different width of boards (from experience, two or three positions are enough)...also, I marked a line (red) with the blade at full high position and never cross this line even if the blade is lower (which on the router table it’s not important).

When I use it on the router table, I pull out the dowel and use it free-hand but, if you have already T-Track…..better…

Regards
niki

Thanks, It’s made very similar to mine

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Very nice table , Dan ! Did you get any snow on the Lake yet ?

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Ha Dusty,

Are you like all those other people south of us who confuse Maine with Alaska? The leaves have turned but not all fallen yet and the temperature was in the 60’s today. (10/21/09) We’ve weeks left till any snow flies and the lake won’t freeze over until around January.

thanks for the table comment. It’s a few months old now and working as good as I expected.

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They got a good bit of snow in the Boston area the other day during the game and I was just wondering if you were lucky as well : )

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Nice table, I am currently building my first table using a kitchen counter top from a breakfast bar. I noticed your receptical is facing up, do you have any issues with shavings falling into the recep? I plan on using an outdoor receptical box that has a cover to prevent any shavings. Also, i am using bosch strut for my my fence and t-rail inserts wich i will rout flush to the table top. Once i get started i will e-mail pictures that way i can get suggestions from everyone as needed.

thank now a have to build a new router table and that roller for the table saw is really cool

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LRW.. been awhile now and the table works very well. Beats the heck out of the mdf one I had before. I also made a roller thing for my table saw too. for the pin underneath. I found a bolt head size that fits in my table saw slot snugly like the slider on my miter sled. works out nicely.

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Dan, that’s a very nice table. I do have one comment, however: The switch on the side looks to me like an accident waiting to happen. I’d either replace it with a magnetic switch or make a box shroud for it so that accidentally hitting the switch won’t turn the router on.

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