A person, who loves to create and do various things on their own, will have great pleasure from creating a router table. This is a difficult but exciting endeavor. Making a table for a router with your own hands means getting a structure that costs much less than a factory-made one. Safety precautions must be observed when constructing a router table board.
I hear about routers and router tables in woodwork DIY, but what can I do?
Compared to trimmers, DIY router table has more power and use a larger bit size, so they can perform large processing precisely. However, since the main body is heavy and must be held with both hands for work, it is necessary to fix the work material and it is difficult to cut small or thin materials. The “router table” enables safe and highly accurate processing rather than holding and operating the router with both hands.
A router table is a table that is used as a base for various cutting processes by fixing an inverted router to the back of the table. The bit comes out from under the table, and the work material is moved for cutting. Unlike the case of holding the router by hand, fine processing and repetitive processing can be performed safely, and large bits can also be used. The router table is used for “fence (in-feed sub-fence / out-feed sub-fence)”, which is a ruler for pressing materials during processing, “insert plate” for attaching routers, and for fixing guides and feather boards of miter gauges. “Miter slot”, “bit guard” for safe use of bits, etc. is attached.
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A router table is used to dig a groove in this base plate, but this procedure requires digging. When digging a groove, a stopper is provided near the center of the circle, and it ends near this point. In the case of a straight bit, the stopper side of the birch plywood is lifted to finish, but in the case of a keyhole, if it stops at the stopper, it is necessary to move it in the opposite direction. The photo shows the stopper and the groove completed.
- Since the router is fixed to the table base plate, you can take out the entire table base plate and replace the router bit.
- Make a large hole for the bit to come out.
There are functional advantages such as preparing another plate that reduces the gap with the hole according to the diameter of the router and replacing it. However, the biggest drawback is that if there is a step of several millimeters between the table base plate and the table top, the material will get caught during processing. The place where the table base plate is dropped is made by digging the thickness from the top. You can even use the best jigsaw for cutting the wood and then can make grooves with the help of the DIY router table.
It is extremely difficult to dig just the right thickness, so dig a little extra and make some kind of mechanism for fine height adjustment on the table base plate. The table base plate surface and the top surface will be flush with each other, but the above processing requires extra effort and accuracy.
Anika Sharma