I would like to see pics of your cabinet built around your router table please.
I have the Kreg table and stand. Thinking if boxing the stand in and doing dust extraction from back side and a few other ideas, but how have you done yours.
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I would like to see pics of your cabinet built around your router table please.
I have the Kreg table and stand. Thinking if boxing the stand in and doing dust extraction from back side and a few other ideas, but how have you done yours.
There will be better responses than this, but here are mine.
I made a pair so that I could use the Gifkins jig without having to constantly change router bits.
They are nothing special, and were made from whatever scraps I could find around the wood stack.
The frames are slash pine - awful stuff and full of resin, but it was free :)
Linings are some lining boards, some ply and some "whatever filled the gap".
The tops are from a dismantled kitchen bench top.
I took these images during the build, the dust extraction is out the back of the top recess that holds the router of course.
Hope they help
Tom
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Sometimes, extra dust extraction is needed at the cutter - here is a temporary fix that worked for me when cutting mortices
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Here is my router table build from 2020; there are 5 compartments on drawer runners surrounding the central router compartment. These hold all my router bits, fences, hold downs and jigs, and another pair of 1/2” routers in addition to the one mounted in the table. Dust extraction above the table is through the dust port on the fence; below the table is accomplished using the dedicated ports built into the Triton router. The only thing I need to do (round tuit dependant) is fit louvres or mesh to the back of the cabinet to aid in motor cooling; currently if I’m going to be using it hard I just leave one of the doors open… inelegant but effective.