Thread: help cutting hole in table top??

Router and jigsaw will do it. You need to make a template to rout around. Set the router at the depth you want the lip, rout around your template.
cut the middle out with the jigsaw
This is what Ive done with my router table

A router on its own will do the job just fine.
as long as the bit you use is long enought to reach thru the board.

you could make a template or just mark out the hole & set up the stock guide system to do the job with some care.
then use either a straight bit or a rebating bit to do your recess.


a job made for a router.


cheers

For the lip, working with a template cut to exactly fit the base of the machine, a top bearing dado clean out bit works perfectly. This is what I used on my router table. This eliminates the math and confusion in trying to make an oversize template to match your template guide.

Something like this:

Yep, router and jigsaw or router alone. Either will do it. Don't forget to mark the hole using the INSIDE of the lip on the machine base (before the rebate). DAMHIKT.