Project Information
It's been 7-1/2 years since the original table post here:
And have made quite a few improvements since then. I need to add that all the aluminum extrusions, the castors, much of the sheet stock and the 4 ft. drawer slides were all free scores from work. Actually free scores from my last 2 jobs. Both companies don't believe in keeping unused items laying around…..
I say that because I would never invest the coin to buy this material, even though I love it, I am way to cheap for that…..
1. Early on I replaced the Incra Ultra jig with the LS jig, which I was able to do through a trade:
2. One annoyance with the aluminum channel is the open t-slots fill up with saw dust and impossible to keep clean. For a price you can buy plastic filler strips that snap into the channels, but they aren't cheap. So I ripped my own filler strips out of pine, painted them red and pounded in:
That was many years ago and not nearly as easy as it looks and I never did finish, so only parts of the table had the red fillers.
About a month or 2 ago, they were throwing out a bunch of the black fillers (people thought I was nuts walking out the door with these 10 ft chunks of plastic!) but I was thrilled! So that's why there is black and red fillers….
3. I picked up the vice a few years ago when Lowes was closing out the Bessey line and this seemed like a good sturdy spot to put and made some leather lined mag inserts for it:
4. I beefed up the dust collection from 3" to 4" and mounted the wye on the side of the table for the fence port:
5. Scored a pair of 4 ft. Accuride drawer slides from work. Had no idea what in the world I would do with them, but they are seriously heavy duty. I wanted to put them on the router table, but the table is only 41" long…...however, both the dust collection and the Incra jig hang over the end of the table, so I went for the jumbo slides anyways, just let them hang out the back of the table:
The drawer is massive, not sure the pics do it justice. And it's heavy. Mostly MDF because that's what I had laying around:
Used reclaimed Maple flooring (old gym floor) with tenons cut on the Pantorouter to support the bottom:
And mortises in the MDF sides:
Some assembly photos:
For now, going to store the photography stuff in there, tripod, lights, backdrops, etc:
On the back of the table, built a removable cover that doubles as a shelf:
6. This was an afterthought after building the jumbo drawer, but decided to build a another drawer that opens perpendicular to it and put the rototool and Kreg jig stuff here:
It is also built with the Maple supports for the drawer bottom:
Stuff that hasn't changed except for one of the door swings:
Door swings down now, but has bit storage shelf on top, misc stuff in the middle drawer and Incra templates stored at the bottom:
This is mostly the same, had to reroute the wiring which was a pain, but this compartment works well and is really convenient to use for bit changes. Just have to remember not to slam the door shut, cause stuff will fly off the mag mount board:
That's it for now. This beast weighs a ton and really have no idea how it will ever be removed from the basement…...
Thanks for looking…
And have made quite a few improvements since then. I need to add that all the aluminum extrusions, the castors, much of the sheet stock and the 4 ft. drawer slides were all free scores from work. Actually free scores from my last 2 jobs. Both companies don't believe in keeping unused items laying around…..
I say that because I would never invest the coin to buy this material, even though I love it, I am way to cheap for that…..
1. Early on I replaced the Incra Ultra jig with the LS jig, which I was able to do through a trade:
2. One annoyance with the aluminum channel is the open t-slots fill up with saw dust and impossible to keep clean. For a price you can buy plastic filler strips that snap into the channels, but they aren't cheap. So I ripped my own filler strips out of pine, painted them red and pounded in:
That was many years ago and not nearly as easy as it looks and I never did finish, so only parts of the table had the red fillers.
About a month or 2 ago, they were throwing out a bunch of the black fillers (people thought I was nuts walking out the door with these 10 ft chunks of plastic!) but I was thrilled! So that's why there is black and red fillers….
3. I picked up the vice a few years ago when Lowes was closing out the Bessey line and this seemed like a good sturdy spot to put and made some leather lined mag inserts for it:
4. I beefed up the dust collection from 3" to 4" and mounted the wye on the side of the table for the fence port:
5. Scored a pair of 4 ft. Accuride drawer slides from work. Had no idea what in the world I would do with them, but they are seriously heavy duty. I wanted to put them on the router table, but the table is only 41" long…...however, both the dust collection and the Incra jig hang over the end of the table, so I went for the jumbo slides anyways, just let them hang out the back of the table:
The drawer is massive, not sure the pics do it justice. And it's heavy. Mostly MDF because that's what I had laying around:
Used reclaimed Maple flooring (old gym floor) with tenons cut on the Pantorouter to support the bottom:
And mortises in the MDF sides:
Some assembly photos:
For now, going to store the photography stuff in there, tripod, lights, backdrops, etc:
On the back of the table, built a removable cover that doubles as a shelf:
6. This was an afterthought after building the jumbo drawer, but decided to build a another drawer that opens perpendicular to it and put the rototool and Kreg jig stuff here:
It is also built with the Maple supports for the drawer bottom:
Stuff that hasn't changed except for one of the door swings:
Door swings down now, but has bit storage shelf on top, misc stuff in the middle drawer and Incra templates stored at the bottom:
This is mostly the same, had to reroute the wiring which was a pain, but this compartment works well and is really convenient to use for bit changes. Just have to remember not to slam the door shut, cause stuff will fly off the mag mount board:
That's it for now. This beast weighs a ton and really have no idea how it will ever be removed from the basement…...
Thanks for looking…