New (old) Router Table

iamcliff said:

New (old) Router Table

We brought our daughter to her friend's birthday party yesterday and my friend (the dad) showed me around his basement wood shop. He had several more tools than I do like a band saw, bench grinder, lathe, and 2 router tables (the kind like you get at a home store). He had 2 router tables because he found them online and the price was too good to pass up. Well,we were leaving and he told me he would just give me one. I was very excited about this, let me tell you, because I've been needing one and have been looking at some simple plans recently and figuring out how in the world I was going to afford to build one. Well, this one will work out great until I can make a nice one on my own.

It's an old benchtop Craftsman router table. He had a Ryobi one as well which he was going to give me, but then he realized that the screw hole pattern in the Craftsman table didn't match his Ryobi router. Well, I happen to have a Craftsman router which was graciously given to me by another LJ a year ago.

So, it's obviously old, but not bad for being free. I just have to buy some bolts to attach the router to the table. It has a dust collection port which would be nice if I had dust collection. That, of course, is on the list.

I will build a base for it and make it about the same height as my table saw.

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iamcliff said:

New (old) Router Table

We brought our daughter to her friend's birthday party yesterday and my friend (the dad) showed me around his basement wood shop. He had several more tools than I do like a band saw, bench grinder, lathe, and 2 router tables (the kind like you get at a home store). He had 2 router tables because he found them online and the price was too good to pass up. Well,we were leaving and he told me he would just give me one. I was very excited about this, let me tell you, because I've been needing one and have been looking at some simple plans recently and figuring out how in the world I was going to afford to build one. Well, this one will work out great until I can make a nice one on my own.

It's an old benchtop Craftsman router table. He had a Ryobi one as well which he was going to give me, but then he realized that the screw hole pattern in the Craftsman table didn't match his Ryobi router. Well, I happen to have a Craftsman router which was graciously given to me by another LJ a year ago.

So, it's obviously old, but not bad for being free. I just have to buy some bolts to attach the router to the table. It has a dust collection port which would be nice if I had dust collection. That, of course, is on the list.

I will build a base for it and make it about the same height as my table saw.

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iamcliff said:

New (old) Router Table

We brought our daughter to her friend's birthday party yesterday and my friend (the dad) showed me around his basement wood shop. He had several more tools than I do like a band saw, bench grinder, lathe, and 2 router tables (the kind like you get at a home store). He had 2 router tables because he found them online and the price was too good to pass up. Well,we were leaving and he told me he would just give me one. I was very excited about this, let me tell you, because I've been needing one and have been looking at some simple plans recently and figuring out how in the world I was going to afford to build one. Well, this one will work out great until I can make a nice one on my own.

It's an old benchtop Craftsman router table. He had a Ryobi one as well which he was going to give me, but then he realized that the screw hole pattern in the Craftsman table didn't match his Ryobi router. Well, I happen to have a Craftsman router which was graciously given to me by another LJ a year ago.

So, it's obviously old, but not bad for being free. I just have to buy some bolts to attach the router to the table. It has a dust collection port which would be nice if I had dust collection. That, of course, is on the list.

I will build a base for it and make it about the same height as my table saw.

Click to expand...

iamcliff said:

New (old) Router Table

We brought our daughter to her friend's birthday party yesterday and my friend (the dad) showed me around his basement wood shop. He had several more tools than I do like a band saw, bench grinder, lathe, and 2 router tables (the kind like you get at a home store). He had 2 router tables because he found them online and the price was too good to pass up. Well,we were leaving and he told me he would just give me one. I was very excited about this, let me tell you, because I've been needing one and have been looking at some simple plans recently and figuring out how in the world I was going to afford to build one. Well, this one will work out great until I can make a nice one on my own.

It's an old benchtop Craftsman router table. He had a Ryobi one as well which he was going to give me, but then he realized that the screw hole pattern in the Craftsman table didn't match his Ryobi router. Well, I happen to have a Craftsman router which was graciously given to me by another LJ a year ago.

So, it's obviously old, but not bad for being free. I just have to buy some bolts to attach the router to the table. It has a dust collection port which would be nice if I had dust collection. That, of course, is on the list.

I will build a base for it and make it about the same height as my table saw.

Click to expand...