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Pat Warner, a router guru, who has unfortunately left us, illustrated the design of his micro-adjustable router table fence in an article in the September-October 2000 edition of Fine Woodworking magazine. I include a copy of the first page of the referenced article illustrating his design.
I’m contemplating building a semblance of Pat Warner’s micro-adjustable router table fence. Most likely I’ll leave off the dial indicator in my first attempt, but allow for its addition in the future in my original effort.
I say that mine will be a semblance because my router table is in the right wing extension of my Sawstop cast iron tabletop. I added an additional Sawstop cast iron extension to the Sawstop top, and an General Excalibur cast iron router table. Even with this weight added to the right wing, it is very stable, does not tip over, and yet I can move the entire “land yacht” in my small shop with one hand.
Pat Warner’s router fence is designed to be used on a wooden or MDF router table. He attached the router fence to the router table via the two handled bolts (lever and stud) at the rear of the fence. Since I’m not drilling into the Sawstop cast iron extension wing nor the cast iron router table, I propose to use a couple of Magswitch’s Magjig 95 switchable magnetic clamps to secure my router table fence to the cast iron surface. I’ll drill two holes in the approximate location of Pat Warner’s handle bolts in the attached illustrations. I’ll be able to switch the magnetic clamps off to move the router table fence, and on to secure it when ready to route. With two switchable magnetic clamps I’d have 190 pounds of holding force. I doubt I’d be applying that much force to the fence while routing. Of course, additional Magjig 95s could be added, or I could replace the 95s with 150s or 235s, if needed.
I also attach a photo of a dust collection jig I have designed and attached to the cast iron tabletop with smaller Magjig 60s switchable magnetic clamps. This dust collection jig is connected via a flex hose to a dust collection “Y” underneath the router table that then leads to my dust collector. I can move this tabletop dust collection jig with ease by switching the magnetic switches off, and secure it by turning the switches on. Since this works great, I expect securing the router table fence with larger Magjig switchable magnetic clamps will work just as well. Heck, maybe I can get by with two Magjig 60s.
I’d appreciate your thoughts.
I’m contemplating building a semblance of Pat Warner’s micro-adjustable router table fence. Most likely I’ll leave off the dial indicator in my first attempt, but allow for its addition in the future in my original effort.
I say that mine will be a semblance because my router table is in the right wing extension of my Sawstop cast iron tabletop. I added an additional Sawstop cast iron extension to the Sawstop top, and an General Excalibur cast iron router table. Even with this weight added to the right wing, it is very stable, does not tip over, and yet I can move the entire “land yacht” in my small shop with one hand.
Pat Warner’s router fence is designed to be used on a wooden or MDF router table. He attached the router fence to the router table via the two handled bolts (lever and stud) at the rear of the fence. Since I’m not drilling into the Sawstop cast iron extension wing nor the cast iron router table, I propose to use a couple of Magswitch’s Magjig 95 switchable magnetic clamps to secure my router table fence to the cast iron surface. I’ll drill two holes in the approximate location of Pat Warner’s handle bolts in the attached illustrations. I’ll be able to switch the magnetic clamps off to move the router table fence, and on to secure it when ready to route. With two switchable magnetic clamps I’d have 190 pounds of holding force. I doubt I’d be applying that much force to the fence while routing. Of course, additional Magjig 95s could be added, or I could replace the 95s with 150s or 235s, if needed.
I also attach a photo of a dust collection jig I have designed and attached to the cast iron tabletop with smaller Magjig 60s switchable magnetic clamps. This dust collection jig is connected via a flex hose to a dust collection “Y” underneath the router table that then leads to my dust collector. I can move this tabletop dust collection jig with ease by switching the magnetic switches off, and secure it by turning the switches on. Since this works great, I expect securing the router table fence with larger Magjig switchable magnetic clamps will work just as well. Heck, maybe I can get by with two Magjig 60s.
I’d appreciate your thoughts.
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