old folks

Please excuse my ignorance in regards to routing... I have been saving towards the Oak Park build your own table. Then reading some posts here in the forum some members have complained about the Oak Park table not being large enough to use an incra jig...

(my ignorance) why would a person need a incra jig if they had the spacer fences ? Also why does the spacer fences allow you to do dove tails but not on corners ?

As I have posted before, I want to learn how to do display boxes (LEARN) and I want to put them together with the best looking joints possible as a good selling point.

Would any members make an Oak Park style router table... Bench top style...
that they sell for a reasonabe price ? I would need a decent fence and if possible drilled to accept the Oak Park spacer fence.

If the table was in sections shipping should not be to much.

Thank you for your assistance.

John (old folks)

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challagan

Hi JOhn. The Oak Park table is large enough to use the original Incra Jig from Rockler on. The space fence does combination and box joints well but the Incra jig does varitaions of dove tail like double dove tails, blind dove tails etc. Two different jigs that are both great at what they do. I love my Oak Park table, best thing I ever did!

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bobj3

Hi old folks

Pls. let me add my 2 cents

Lets start with the size of the Oak-Park table,, most jobs you will do on a router table will be small and the other big jobs are best done with a plunge router or to say a hand router i..e after you have a cabinet or what ever glued up.

The Incra jig is a great add on tool for the router table as well as the Oak-Park box joint jigs,,,but like the name they are made so you can make box joints quick and easy and not dovetail joints, you need to think how the dovetail works and you will see why you can't use the box joint jigs for corner dovetails.

If you want best looking joints possible add on the Incra jig to your router table and for only 60.oo bucks you can do all the box joint you want and they will come out looking great...but we are talking about small boxes, if you get over 8" you will need a bigger jig to do that...

Lets talk about the fence,,,, it can be just a true 2 x 4 you don't need the Poly. type to use the router table, the fence is Not drilled to take on the box joint jig the the top is but that's not a big deal you can drill out any router table top to take on the box joint jigs quick and easy easy, they come with the info you need to do that....

"If the table was in sections shipping should not be to much" = that's the way you would get them from Oak-Park in a flat box, that you need to put them together,but mass is mass ,they don't charge for air in the box
but they do charge for over size boxes...so to say it's best to ship them in parts...


Bj

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The Incra Jig fits the Oak Park table with no problem.

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I love Jay and the team at my local Rockler store -- they are about as honest as salesmen can be and still stay in business. Probably because they are also craftsmen.

They told me exactly the same thing when I was looking at the Incra jig -
Esssentially talking me OUT of buying it -- because an actual dovetail jig was more appropriate for my immediate needs.

Of course-- now that that need is taken care of -- and I am ready to 'play' some more -- I want me that Incra Jig --- just waiting for it to go back on sale :-)

John -- as for ignorance ---
One of the teachers here where I work keeps a poster on his wall --
"Ignorance can be fixed === Stupid is forever"
Stupid - he defines as not being smart/honest enough to admit to ignorance.
Ignorance CAN be fixed --- and when it comes to routers and routing etc -
These are just the guys here in this forum to do it.