Looking to build A ROUTER BENCH AND NEED SOME ADVISE

Not sure if this is what your looking for but here are some pictures of the router table I built last winter,! if you plan on installing a router lift on yours I would put a door on the front it would cut down on noise. This one I built out of two sheets of 3/4” MDF and western birch, the top is two layers of 3/4” MDF, the drawers are made of 1/2” and 1/4” birch plywood. I knew this thing would be heavy and I wanted to be able to move it and I wanted it to sit still while in use, so I incorporated in a lifting swivel castor from a mobile base from a jointer and two adjustable legs on the back and two solid front castors. !http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss147/MikeDelyster/147_4767.jpg!After using this router table for almost a year the only thing I would change is I would have installed a router lift and added a door, which might still happen one day. I will post a couple of pictures of the front in another post. Good luck with your new router table and have fun.

-- Mike

Router table or bench?

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

well you asked a loaded question you will get many different opinions on this so ill just tell you what I’m running.

i didn’t want to take up space in my shop with another shop machine so i dropped mine into my assembly table

i ended up with rockler plate and for the fence i have an incra fence that i use trax to attach when i use the router the table is 2 pieces of 3/4” melamine glued together it works great for me.

hope that helps

jason

-- I buy tools so i can make more money,so ican buy more tools so I can work more, to make more money, so I can buy more tool, so I can work more

! And here is one of the base.

-- Mike