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I am moving here with my question about making a router table top using templates.

As Ric instructed me, I used my 11" x 11" baseplate, using a 3/4" bushing and a 3/8" straight bit, I made a female template. The inside demension is 12 1/8".

This is as far as I got.

How do I proceed?

Mowerhappy1

 

[mowerhappy1]

I will wait on the pictures, Thanks.

Mowerhappy1

 

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Template Help

Thank you for posting the pictures and detailed instructions. I will diciper all this and work on it this weekend. My sister is having a yard sale and needs my saw table and two sets of folding saw horses and a I have to help also.
So I am dead in the water for 2 days.

Thank you again for the help.

 

[mowerhappy1]

Baseplare Female Template

A Picture is worth a thousand words. I was trying to make complicated something that was very simple!!!!!

I was trying to cut on the outside of my base plate with a guide bushing for what ever reason. Once I saw the picture with the "sticks", it was clear as mud where I had been wrong. I messed up a lot of 1/4 plywood trying the wrong way.

I made the female template as per visual and written instructions.

Made the table top cut out.

Used the indicated rabbet bit, made the daddo, too deep.

Will make another setup run and should be good to go.


Thank out. Thank You. Thank you.
Now, how do the height adjustment screws work?


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[mowerhappy1]

Ric,

Thanks for explaining that about the screws.

I am making two router tables, one for me and one for a friend. I have to cut the cabinet grade plywood on the table saw this weekend. I have to laminate the table tops.
I am using plexiglass for my PC plunge router base plate. Hopefully this will all work out. So far, I subscribe to the Router Workshop "way" of doing things. My son-in-law gave me a 4' x 6' sheet of the white stuff 1' thick. Also have a sheet 1/2" thick. So down the road I should be able to make plenty of fences and some jigs. I did buy the 12" wheel jig and I love that one. I use the wheels on a hay wagon pattern I have.

 

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First Router Table Attemp

Just a follow up.

Attaching pictures of the results of all the help I did recieve on making my first router table. Made one my way and made one like the plans I recieved when I bought my table top from Oak Park. Need to put the doors on the base cabinet and the gray one and it will be ready to rock and roll. Both of them work just fine, just like Rick and Bob on the Router Workshop. I love IT!!!