My New SS Router Table

aloibl · Post by **aloibl** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 11:39 am

I used both front and rear rails. I am going to upgrade my table with the magnetic rip scale so I assume I will only have to buy another rear rail to put back on my floating table because the rip scale comes with a new front rails. I will keep the other two front rails to use on other ideas as they come up.

shipwright · Post by **shipwright** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 12:08 pm

aloibl wrote:I took Pauls design and added 520 rails. Also going to put together a jig to attach my shaper fence to the rip fence to use with the under table router

Thanks for the original design!! Except for needing to replace my rails on one of my floating tables and buying a few screws this router table didn't cost me anything but some time. Always look forward to looking at all of the ideas that the members of this forum come up with.

Thanks,

You are very welcome. Glad I could help.

Paul M

aloibl · Post by **aloibl** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 2:06 pm

I used both front and back rails. I want to upgrade my table with the magnetic tape so if I do that I am just going to need to buy another rear rail to put my floating table back into action.

camerio · Post by **camerio** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 2:32 pm

I wish I had seen this idea before I bought the Veritas table, but you just made this router table section and it resulted after seeing Paul's own.
Yours adapted the front and rear rail, but for the construction of it, did you do it like Paul's or did you have to modified ...
Some details of the underside of it, like a picture of the underside would be really appreciated.
My router table was conceived around a top that I bought from Lee Valley and it is dependant of all the sides of the plate being free since the accessories and the fence are attached by and under the plate. There are many operations that can be performed on this table and the way I attached it to my Mark V was only for reason of space. I do not have the space for a separate piece of furniture in the workshop. I may turn the whole support upside down so the wood frame is higher, because to tube are in the way. I guess I will have to use it and find out the + and - of it.

aloibl · Post by **aloibl** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:10 pm

Camerio, mine was constructed just like Paul's original one except instead of cutting for it to fit in between the tubes I made mine the exact dimension necessary to put on the model 520 rails. I actually used Red Oak for most of my construction because I had some of it left over after doing a couple of projects. I used 13/16 inch as the top and just some leftover pieces to reinforce around the edges. Instead of buying some very expensive 1/4" plexiglass or Lexan I decided to go with some inexpensive 1/4" MDF for the removable plate. I cut out several of these at one time just in case I needed one with a bigger hole I can just grab one of these extras and drill a bigger hole in it. I did dado down about 1/4" on the ends of the top where the rails are before adding the side pieces because I wanted to make sure that the screws I used to connect the rails to where not to close to where the top and sides would have been glued together. I could of taken some pictures of the bottom of this table but when I was doing the dados on one of the ends I let it get away from me and while it didn't hurt the usability of the table it doesn't look "pretty".

camerio · Post by **camerio** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:41 pm

aloibl wrote:I could of taken some pictures of the bottom of this table but when I was doing the dados on one of the ends I let it get away from me and while it didn't hurt the usability of the table it doesn't look "pretty".

Pretty is not important to me ...
I am a visual person, so please put a picture on or else send it to me via email.
Thanks for the explanation.

aloibl · Post by **aloibl** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:51 pm

I will post a few more pictures after I get home this evening. Might be able to finish attaching my shaper fence to my rip fence and have a picture of that also.

aloibl · Post by **aloibl** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 7:20 pm

Here are some more pics of the unit I constructed this weekend.

Thanks,

shipwright · Post by **shipwright** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 8:01 pm

Looks really nice on the 520 rails Alan.

Good work.

Paul M

camerio · Post by **camerio** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 8:30 am

Hey Alan, thanks for the nice pictures.
So in order to accommodate for the fence's parts what were the dimensions of your table ?
Should I use the dimensions of the floating tables as a reference ?
By the way, I have the new fence system.
I have also seen that Ed (reible) has a similar router table (larger than yours) with parts that can use the new fence. Ref.: Post #32 in the thread : Nest Box 10 build (for beginners) First picture.
I must have missed the thread relating to those tables being done .... with the new fence system.