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I know, I know, router tables have been hashed over on this forum many times, but for the benefit of the "Table Design Challenged" can we pick away at some of the finer points of Table and fence design?
I have been reading articles in both paper and online regarding router tables and have been pondering what to use and what to improve on. I have picked up on some awesome links provided right here (thanks to you guys and gals) and have some great ideas from them. I'm taking a ton of ideas from the Dec 2005 issue of Woodworkers Journal's excellent article on "The Ultimate Router Table".
Not so short and sweet. I have limited space in a 22' wide by 26' long "super single" garage. The 16' door is off set to provide a 3 ft wide storage space down one 26' wall for all of my wood working tools to be rolled under a bench when not in use. Yup, it's all on mobile bases. The garage is used to park a full size extended cab long box pickup truck (yes it does suck in parking lots) as with Canadian winters I hate brushing snow and scraping frost. The space on the 22' wall is already spoken for (mechanical & metal fab).
The top I have chosen is a piece of 18" x 31" (thats how long my miter gage track is) x 1 3/4" laminate beam. (sag that puppy!) I will sand the beam to +/- .001" of flat before applying the arborite to the top and bottom.
Finally here's the question! In most of the plans I have seen there is a acre of room behind the fence with the router centered in the table top (usually 24" wide) with an 19 1/2" wide table top (including the 3/4" trim) I would like to reduce the space behind the fence to allow more "working area" for the wood on the table as well as room for the miter gage. Are there any hard and fast rules in building a table regarding distance between the router plate and the miter track? Between the router plate and the (behind fence) edge of the table? What about fence travel distances? With the miter gage I have purchased (it's a 9" wide bull) the track will be centered 4 1/2" from the edge of the table. Do you think I am trying to go too compact and crowded?
In your replies please include "why" it has to be done that way.
TIA,
CB
I have been reading articles in both paper and online regarding router tables and have been pondering what to use and what to improve on. I have picked up on some awesome links provided right here (thanks to you guys and gals) and have some great ideas from them. I'm taking a ton of ideas from the Dec 2005 issue of Woodworkers Journal's excellent article on "The Ultimate Router Table".
Not so short and sweet. I have limited space in a 22' wide by 26' long "super single" garage. The 16' door is off set to provide a 3 ft wide storage space down one 26' wall for all of my wood working tools to be rolled under a bench when not in use. Yup, it's all on mobile bases. The garage is used to park a full size extended cab long box pickup truck (yes it does suck in parking lots) as with Canadian winters I hate brushing snow and scraping frost. The space on the 22' wall is already spoken for (mechanical & metal fab).
The top I have chosen is a piece of 18" x 31" (thats how long my miter gage track is) x 1 3/4" laminate beam. (sag that puppy!) I will sand the beam to +/- .001" of flat before applying the arborite to the top and bottom.
Finally here's the question! In most of the plans I have seen there is a acre of room behind the fence with the router centered in the table top (usually 24" wide) with an 19 1/2" wide table top (including the 3/4" trim) I would like to reduce the space behind the fence to allow more "working area" for the wood on the table as well as room for the miter gage. Are there any hard and fast rules in building a table regarding distance between the router plate and the miter track? Between the router plate and the (behind fence) edge of the table? What about fence travel distances? With the miter gage I have purchased (it's a 9" wide bull) the track will be centered 4 1/2" from the edge of the table. Do you think I am trying to go too compact and crowded?
In your replies please include "why" it has to be done that way.
TIA,
CB