Okay Guys,
I am looking into making a new router table for myself. What, if any, are the advantages of a router table inside the wing of a table saw vs a stand alone table. I have now a small bench type built to get buy untill I could build a floor mobile unit or the other.
thanks,Hulio
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hulio,
I leave the answer to your first question to others, but I think the quote in your signature is from John Wayne in The Shootist:
John Bernard Books: I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.
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Space saving comes to mind! I built Norms plans and while its very nice, it does take up a lot of space. If I did have it built in the table saw, I would still want dust collection built around it i.e. a box of some type.
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I put my Veritas table next to the left wing of my table saw. It provides excellent addition stock support by being located there.
The best approach would be something on the lines of Popular Woodworking's "Little Shop Mark II". It is a mobile workstation built around a Delta Contractor's saw, with a router table built into the right side wing, and cabinets underneath.
It provides dust collection for both the saw, and the router table. Plus give you lots of storage for teh accessories, extra routers, etc.
The plans used to be available online, but I'm not sure they are still posted.
I have placed my router in the outfeed section of my saw. I find I benefit from better support when edging a large piece such as a table top. Sometimes I almost want to 'rotate' a piece around the bit when working with a bearing guided bit: the extra space makes this possible.
Frosty
"I sometimes think we consider the good fortune of the early bird and overlook the bad fortune of the early worm." FDR - 1922
Hulio,
Go to FWW #169, "A versatile Router Table" by Kevin McLaughlin. It mounts a router conventionally, overhead, and horizontally, allows for dust collection and pin routing. It's something else, and dirt cheap to build.
I have a 35 year-old Sears 9" bench saw, that i had to improve on or dump. I built a new stand for it, added a 24x30 extension wing on the right, and modified the router table design and bolted it to the saw on the left. Built a 6-drawer chest under the wing on the right, built a 30" fence that works as a router fence too, and put the whole thing on 2x10 frame with 6 swivel casters. Now, I have tremendous stock support, an assembly table, router table that will do anything, and I can move it anywhere (except upstairs). The horizontal routing is very convenient. Instead of using big bits and fooling with raising the bit a little at a time, I use a vertical bit in the horizontal position (take a moment and think it through) and advance the bit with the router's micro-adjust and it's done. Safe, sane, easy, and cheap.
If you don't have that issue, you can get it here in the workshop projects. Try it. Space-saving, money-saving, versatile, and it works.
Steve
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1. Let her think she's having her own way.
2. Let her have her own way. President Lyndon Baines Johnson
You use less space in your shop if your router table is on your saw. I also have a bigger table for the router. My TS wing is cast iron and flat. However, my MDF tables are just as flat
I have several router tables/fixtures and the router I use most of the time in on my TS. On occasion I find that if I have a set-up for the router and need to use my TS I can't without removing my setup and lowering the router bit.
If I planed my work better it would never be a problem!
EDIT: I forgot to mention router table on the saw is a Bench Dog ProMax. Bit expensive but I like it.
Edited 9/26/2007 4:52 pm by WillGeorge
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