Hi everyone,
Two weekends ago I managed to get enough motivation to move an entire mountain range managed to clean up the shop. :gar-La; In the process, I ended up with some more usable space. I have the el cheapo Ryobi Router and RT at the moment. Currently, there's not a whole lot of $$$ in the tool budget and I'd like to build my own RT. I have some counter tops that I got from Phillip a year or so ago (thanks man!) and thought about using a piece of one of those for the table top.
One idea I had was to route out a groove (or cut out and build a support) and sink the original table top that came with the router into the counter. That way all of the screw holes, etc are already taken care of. Then, I would just need to route the slots for the miter gauge, take the switch off of the original legs and install it on the new router table, and possibly use the existing fence... :eusa_thin
Have any of you ever built your own RT? If so, I could sure use a few pointers. :icon_thum This is typically the type of thing that you build, thinking that you thought of everything, then once it's done, you realize all of the things that you didn't think about. :BangHead::BangHead::BangHead:
Two weekends ago I managed to get enough motivation to move an entire mountain range managed to clean up the shop. :gar-La; In the process, I ended up with some more usable space. I have the el cheapo Ryobi Router and RT at the moment. Currently, there's not a whole lot of $$$ in the tool budget and I'd like to build my own RT. I have some counter tops that I got from Phillip a year or so ago (thanks man!) and thought about using a piece of one of those for the table top.
One idea I had was to route out a groove (or cut out and build a support) and sink the original table top that came with the router into the counter. That way all of the screw holes, etc are already taken care of. Then, I would just need to route the slots for the miter gauge, take the switch off of the original legs and install it on the new router table, and possibly use the existing fence... :eusa_thin
Have any of you ever built your own RT? If so, I could sure use a few pointers. :icon_thum This is typically the type of thing that you build, thinking that you thought of everything, then once it's done, you realize all of the things that you didn't think about. :BangHead::BangHead::BangHead: