I made my router table with a plywood top and a pair of sawhorses as legs. In order to allow easy knockdown, the tops of the sawhorses simply fit into dadoes beneath the plywood. This gives me a little more room in the shop when needed and frees the sawhorses when I want to use them for other things. The table has a spare router base permanently attached the router can quickly slip out of this, put on its other bottom, and be ready to tackle other jobs. Best of all, I made the table the same height as my tablesaw, so it can double as an outfeed table, which is actually how the whole idea started.

Ed Devlin, Rothsay, Minn.

Fine Woodworking Magazine, October 1984 No. 48

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