Thread: Router Fence Design

Paul - part of the bathroom job is the router table. It's like any other jig - you have to have the jig before doing the job, and this jig is a must!

Stuart

Thanks for your advice and words of encouragement, but SWMBO in a former life was a daughter of Medusa and I am not yet ready to be a rock. (You wouldn't be setting me up here would you?)

There is a little bit of history in that she has been waiting fifteen years for a verandah and the payoff is to complete the bathroom to appease her and gain a temporary reprieve.

But oh those router table/cupboards are sooooo beautiful. I have secret yearnings for one of those Woodpecker goldy coloured bizzos under which you can hang your router too. Perhaps, I could make the vanity.... the right jig..... the embryo of a devious scheme.. (I mean a plan)......

Regards
Paul

Originally Posted by Bushmiller

Thanks guys. I always have trouble sealing things up so there is normally plenty of leakage. I imagine your joints are just too good. (Nothing implied about any smoking habits there.)

As to the priorities. Am I man or mouse?

Squeak!

Regards
Paul

Well if you are going to be a mouse, at least be a male mouse

Originally Posted by Stu in Tokyo

Well if you are going to be a mouse, at least be a male mouse

Absolutely

"I am the mouse that roared." It's the Leo in me!

Regards
Paul

Originally Posted by Bushmiller

But oh those router table/cupboards are sooooo beautiful. I have secret yearnings for one of those Woodpecker goldy coloured bizzos under which you can hang your router too.

So do I, but I don't imagine I'll ever be able to justify the $500 or so price tag. So I'll settle for yearning the goldy coloured bizzo that goes behind the router fence and gives incredible accuracy (the replacement for my ugly short black plastic one).

I'm going to justify my ubeaut () router table with a nice jewellry box as a christmas present for SWMBO.

Stu, that white stuff is usually UHMW, or Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene, sort of a denser version of the chopping board plastic.

Should be able to source it from an industrial plastics supplier, it's used in machinery where a low friction wear resistant surface is needed. Not sure how dear it is though.


Cheers..................Sean

Originally Posted by scooter

Stu, that white stuff is usually UHMW, or Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene, sort of a denser version of the chopping board plastic.

Should be able to source it from an industrial plastics supplier, it's used in machinery where a low friction wear resistant surface is needed. Not sure how dear it is though.


Cheers..................Sean

Well, I just bought a big cutting board and cut it up on the TS, works fine so far and was only about $15.

Cheers!

That sounds like the go, Stu, I was looking a while back & couldn't find a large chopping board that was straight & flat on the surface, rather than textured in some way.

Chef's supplies could be worth a shot though.


Cheers..............Sean

Originally Posted by scooter

That sounds like the go, Stu, I was looking a while back & couldn't find a large chopping board that was straight & flat on the surface, rather than textured in some way.

Chef's supplies could be worth a shot though.

Cheers..............Sean

Mine is textured, and it seems to work just fine, in fact it my be a bit more slick because of the texturing...?

A restaurant supply house should do you, it does not need to be thick, mine is maybe 15mm thick?


Cheers!

Originally Posted by scooter

Should be able to source it from an industrial plastics supplier, it's used in machinery where a low friction wear resistant surface is needed. Not sure how dear it is though.

Shop around though, you might be surprised at the price diff between some of these suppliers. also, take cash & ask if they have any offcust about Yay x Yay ish. Funnythink, I just got home from one here is Sunny SA & had a quick look at this thread before doing some work.

Far Far North Stu, your table looks great. fantastic work. It's a lot warmer in the lounge room than out in the shed here at the moment anyway.

Paul, Be a real man like the rest of us & when SWMBO tells you what to do, just turn around & tell her "yes dear". Just an idea on the vanity, if it is less than perfect for the little womans new bathroom, you can always turn it into a router table & have another go at the vanity. You could learn from your mistakes, eg., you may not need a sliding splashboard with 2 sets of "T" tracks in the vanity, but you won't really know until after you have built it & had a bit of a look.

Steve

Good one Ticky - that's the go!!!

Cheers guys - will do some ringing around, see if I can find a local supplier.

Started glueing and screwing the cabinet together. Unlike somethings I do, this is definitely a design as I go type unit!! (And if I don't like it, I'm sure SWMBO may get it as a bathroom vanity..........)

Stuart

Try AB Plastics in Hallam, or the Plastics Centre in Morrabbin. Both are very helpful and sel offcuts, cut ti size etc.

Regards

The Woodworker

Thanks Grahame - will check them out.

Would love an Incra fence, but that system will have to wait a very long time I fear. The cabinet for my woodworksupplies router top is coming along - Glued & screwed together the base unit yesterday, but a design change has left me with a bit of rework, and I have to think how best to go forward.

At least the Triton Multistands have been released from servitude.

I CAN SEE!!! Im not blind!! Did you see that Stuart I CAN SEE!! man aint it wonderful aint it glorious I CAN SEE!!

ahem... now since Im again among the mob with vision I gots a question

So back there on the first page someone damned memory and I was rather excited that I wasnt blind afterall... anyway someone posted a pic of a steal framed table in a garage doorway (that be you Stuart?) anyway Ive got one of them... now its fairly large which Im glad of since I want a wopper router table and so with that in mind Im thinking of going along with much of whats been said here and other places ie: getting the uni-lift and some incra track and using a table saw fence as the router table fence (this will work as Ive tried it! and it fits the full 5ft lenght of the side!) anyway what Im wondering about is how to attach the wheels... ooh I didnt mention that I wanted it to be moverable on wheels which will be lockable... also intend to make drop leaf extentions on either side to extend the table this will help when I rout long strips... but it needs to be on wheels so how does one attach them to this 1in square tubing? weld a plate on the bottom of each leg? weld a angle plate on the wheel so it attached along the side of the leg?

ideas?

Cheers!