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Left- or right adjustible fence-faceboards ?

1.2K views 6 replies 6 participants last post by  nzgeordie  
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Hello to all,
I'm making my 1st routertable & fence, ordered some stuff from over the ocean (yes, I live in Europe); T-track, knobs and bolts and table-insert plate.
You can't get that over here in Holland, so hooray for the Internet !! :D

Table insert is already flush in my "to-be routertable'', this was the first challenge, but worked out very fine.
Now, before continuing with the fence, I'm planning to clamp the fence to the outsides of the table and using a T-track to mount a featherboard on the fence to holddown my workpiece. I was wondering whether I should have a fence from one piece or a split fence. And with back- and forth movable faceboards or without ?
Who has some experience on that and what do you suggest ?

Thanks for the reply !
 
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Greetings and welcome Wouter, good to have you here. I am very new here myself, but the more versatile the table the better. I have the split fence on mine. I like being able to close the gap on the "black hole" where if one is not careful ever thing would get sucked into.
 
#5 ·
Welcome, Wouter. Where in Holland do you reside? I've visited there several times, and Holland quickly became my favorite European country.

I, too, prefer a split fence, with both sides being adjustable for maximum versatility. You might also give some thought to the height of the fence, and the placement of the fence T-track for featherboards, stop blocks, and such. Lower fences are fine for smaller pieces, but that also puts the T-track too close to the table surface for some types of usage.
 
#6 ·
Thanks guys for the advices. I think I'll go for the movable fences towards the center (left-right orientation). Height of the fences about 15-20cm (about 3-4inches).
To start, I don't going to move one of them back and forth for true-ing edges of boards. That's something I could add in the future when needed.

For Ralph: I live in the south of Holland, on one of the peninsula's of Zeeland (that's near Belgium border)
I became more than just interested in woodworking since I've bought a special edition of Wood Magazine when I was over in Chicago for work, about a year ago. You can't get anything like that over here.