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dusty wrote:

algale wrote:

dusty wrote:Advantage? I don't know that there is one except that I have router bits and need to buy finger joint blades.

Why buy a finger joint blade? Won't a standard dado blade do the job?

A good one would but mine rose up out of the Civil War era. It is a Freud 6" stacking dado blade that cuts real nice dadoes with 'bat wings'.

LOL. Now I understand.

'Wings' or 'ears'?

I would have to vote to have the miter track. I use mine on a fairly regular basis. It makes routing end grain far more accurate and safer. Rail and stile doors absolutely require one. I included some pictures of mine in that mode with and without hold down. The one you see here is a simple version with a sacrificial follower for various profiles. I also use a shop made tenoning jig in the same fashion.
Paul

Dusty, if you can't find your old table, you might consider just making a new top with mitre slot - use the same router plate size and set up as your Pro fence so you can move the router back and forth. I've seen a few examples where they sit on the waybars (I think Shipwright had a post on this).

If you like the new top, you have a spare- if you don't like it, no harm done, just a little tinker time spent.

I'm not a fan of miter slots for router tables. I haven't used a jig in one in maybe 30 years. They are nice for things like feather boards that is about it.

I think with a little thought one could mount the i-box on a sled and run it against the fence and get good results without ever having to make a slot in the table. At this point I can envision possibly using a guide bushing and going that way too.

If the other table turns up then this is all mute so lets see how that works out and if we want to look in to some alternative mount methods we can do that later.

So at this point my vote is for no miter track.

Ed

I'll not be cutting a miter track into the Pro Fence. Why? Because I found my first Router Table (Shopsmith Router Table, Mark V). It has a miter slot and the table seems to be the right size for use with the I-Box.

Glad you found that table. It appears to be identical, or nearly so, to the OAR table.
I'll be following your progress with it and the I Box with interest.

I now have my Shopsmith Mark V Router 555658 mounted on the Shorty where I normally keep the belt sander. It is installed the same as shown in the Shopsmith catalog except that I do not use the telescopic leg. I have my own concoction for that. I'll have to purchase a router because the one I have that would fit is used too frequently where it is.

The I-Box will work there but is not as previously hoped. I envisioned the installation different than it has to be so the setup will NOT BE transportable between table saw and router without adjustments to the miter gauge position. This fits so well that I can not help believe that Incra and Shopsmith colluded on the design.