Wanted! pictures of your router table!

This is my first table. I found the metal stand at a yard sale for $5; it had a piece of plywood with the router bolted directly to it. When the router died the guy put it up for sale. I installed a Rousseau mounting plate in it and was applying the finish to the red oak trim when a buddy came by and told me it was going home with him. I ended up taking his table and a stack of dead presidents in trade. The fence is from the table in photo 2; The fence in photos 2 & 3 is my modified version of the plan fence shown in photo 4. You can also see this table on the PBS show Woodsmith Shop. For anyone who wants to know what the plan looks like for Larry's table you can see it on the cover in photo 5. Photo 6 shows a neat portable table plan they offered in ShopNotes # 71.

I was worried to death that i would screw up my first table too. Building a table is the best way to learn basic skills; if you screw up so what? It is a router table not a heirloom triple dresser. We learn from our mistakes. Everybody makes them. By sharing our accidents with others we all learn. I am building a cradle right now. I was rushing to get it done and marked the cut dimensions on the wrong end of the wood. I was lucky that I came to my senses and stopped for the night or I would of made a huge mistake. It is easy enough to mark the correct end but if I had kept pushing myself I would of ruined the glued up headboard and had to start over. This is an important lesson for us all. When you are tired take a break. If you can not give 100% of your attention to what you are doing stop. People that are tired or distracted make mistakes and this is how accidents happen.
By the way, I spent many hours using that first table at my friends place. I was very pleased with the way it performed. After that first table Rick talked me into trying a Router Workshop table and I will never switch back. No fussing with T tracks, I just clamp my set up and go. This is the table I use the most. I still have the trade in table; I installed a HF mounting plate in it with an old router. I have been using it strictly for rounding over edges but it needs to go. I am building two new tables using the methods described in the sticky thread about building a table top. Before long I will have the shots of making the table posted in another sticky thread and most likely a video.

Brian, the sliding faces on the fence is what BJ is talking about. You miter cut them so they come to a point at the front of the fence, the back edge of the sliding faces are about 3/4" apart on your design. The image below is from ShopNotes #1; I highly recommend ShopNotes and Woodsmith for their excellent plans.

There are lots of these small Craftsman routers out there and they are very easy to work with. You can remove the non switch hande to make adjustments under the table easier.