Router table placement choices
 

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Now that I am about done with my workbench I have a few other choices
setting up my shop.

Any comments one way or the other about putting a router lift in the
extension table of my unisaw, or building a stand alone table.

I had one mounted on my contractors saw and kinda liked it because it
had a fence already. It didn't have any slots though, but I will be
adding them this time.

Any advantages or disadvantages mounting it on the extension table?
There has to be something that I haven't thought of.

I have mine in my TS because I really have no other room.
Before I bought a jointer, planer, sander... I had a separate router table.
It was oh so much better. But you have to do what you can with the room you
have.
If you have the room, the choice is obvious.

Router table placement choices
 

Toller wrote:

Any advantages or disadvantages mounting it on the extension table?
There has to be something that I haven't thought of.

I have mine in my TS because I really have no other room.
Before I bought a jointer, planer, sander...**I*had*a*separate*router*table.
It was oh so much better.**But*you*have*to*do*what*you*can*with*the* room*you
have.
If you have the room, the choice is obvious.


For mounting on the saw, it's hard to beat the cast iron table made by, IIRC,
Bench Dog. Not cheap, but really nice.

--
It's turtles, all the way down

Router table placement choices
 

On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:14:56 -0700, Larry Blanchard
wrote:

Toller wrote:

Any advantages or disadvantages mounting it on the extension table?
There has to be something that I haven't thought of.

I have mine in my TS because I really have no other room.
Before I bought a jointer, planer, sander...**I*had*a*separate*router*table.
It was oh so much better.**But*you*have*to*do*what*you*can*with*the* room*you
have.
If you have the room, the choice is obvious.


For mounting on the saw, it's hard to beat the cast iron table made by, IIRC,
Bench Dog. Not cheap, but really nice.

Grizzly has one that's a lot cheaper, but it doesn't have an insert
plate, just a hole for the bit. Router clamps to the underside. Also
doesn't come with a fence, but having two fences on your saw would be
a PITA anyway.

I was dead set on putting mine in the wing, but then I realized I had
a 4'x2' cabinet that wasn't really being utilized very well, just had
the benchtop spindle sander sitting on it, and a pile of crap next to
it. I will have to do some reconfiguring to make it happen, but still
less work than building an extension that won't sag.


-Leuf

Router table placement choices
 

"Leuf" wrote in message
Router clamps to the underside. Also
doesn't come with a fence, but having two fences on your saw would be
a PITA anyway.

But a good router fence is unlike a tablesaw fence. The split fence is very
handy at times and makes for good dust collection.

Router table placement choices
 

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:37:50 GMT, "Edwin Pawlowski"
wrote:


"Leuf" wrote in message
Router clamps to the underside. Also
doesn't come with a fence, but having two fences on your saw would be
a PITA anyway.

But a good router fence is unlike a tablesaw fence. The split fence is very
handy at times and makes for good dust collection.

Yeah but if the table saw fence has T slots on the back side you can
pretty easily work up a solution. Mule has a pretty good example:

http://www.mulecab.com/RouterTable/


-Leuf

Router table placement choices
 

But a good router fence is unlike a tablesaw fence. The split fence is very
handy at times and makes for good dust collection.

I clamp a router fence to my TS fence. Works fine.