Thread: Router table

Originally Posted by Charles Castle

Something I don't understand as someone who wants to buy a router and table. The Triton router is very well regarded and is the one I am going to buy. I need a router table. Does the Triton router table fit the Triton Work centre, or is the Triton router table a separate stand alone device which doesn't require anything else to be useful. I need to be able to transport my router and table.

G'day Charles,

The Triton router table will fit the work centre base. You can however, purchase a separate base just for the router table and owing to the time required to change over from the WorkCentre top to the router table and then back again, I believe that most people have opted to purchase the base for router table. Its what I have done. The big advantage is the convenience of having both your saw and router ready to go at all times.

HTH,

Mark.

Hello Mark.
Many thanks for your reply. I will consider a separate router table, but room is at a premium and I am not likely at this stage to be using the saw as much as the router, although of course that may change.
Charles

Originally Posted by Charles Castle

Hello Mark.
Many thanks for your reply. I will consider a separate router table, but room is at a premium and I am not likely at this stage to be using the saw as much as the router, although of course that may change.
Charles

I can relate to the lack of room problem, Charles. FWIW for on-site use, I get by extremely well with a rectangle of plywood, 3/4" thick to which I attach my Makita router. I either sit it on my saw stools and screw it down, the ply that is not the router or if its a larger job eg damn big house, few months of work, we normally knock up some sort of workbench for ourselves and I drop the ply into that.

Cheers,

I've got the same problem with lack of space, so came up with this stand I built as my first project using newly acquired workcentre and router table. I'd seen a table that someone had built on one of the woodworking forums, but it still took up room, so decided to have a go at my own. I used some 45mm square stock for the legs and could maybe have used some smaller dimensioned timber. It's about 10" wide when folded and is nice and easy to pick up.


Chris.

Chris,

very nice. I think I will be making one of these. Have you copyrighted the design?

I have a Mk3 and have a home made table with the router mounted in the current triton mounting plate. I do get a touch cheesed off switching from saw to router and back again but when storage space is a premium....

Did you consider a power switch on the table?

Jon

Guys,
FWIW
I have the triton router, table and stand - was full of good intentions to make my own table but had a think about it before I got to Bunnies.

Now I'm not about to sprout about the greatness of the table and stand as I've had to jig around like others have in this forum getting the table securely and squarely attached the the stand. Pound for pound I beleive that the table/stand combination allowed me to get using the router usefully much sooner than would have been the case making a table/stand.

Depends on your cash and patience, personal experience goes for the factory table but that is subjective.

Jamie

Originally Posted by Jon

Chris,



Did you consider a power switch on the table?

Jon

Jon
If needed I can use one off my little router table, just a couple of screws to swap them over.
Thanks for your praiseof the stand. I was well chuffed myself when I'd finished it

Originally Posted by mrbingley

Thanks for your praise of the stand. I was well chuffed myself when I'd finished it.

So you should be. Great idea of being able to fold up the stand. However I would fit a separate switch unit, safer that way.

Peter.

I have made my own router stand for the triton router worktop and to accomodate the electric switch I use the triton switch that came with my triton planer.
The planer switch is a loose attachment and easily transfers between both setups.