Mobile Router Center
This rolling router center has onboard storage for all your router components, folds into a tidy package, serves as an extra work surface and rolls out of the way when you're done!
By George Vondriska
A router table is one of the most versatile tools you can The key to a flat, rigid table is the torsion-box design. |
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1. The router table top is a torsion box, which guarantees a stiff, |
2. Pin the top and bottom skins to the torsion box so they don’t shift during |
3. Glue the torsion-box on your tablesaw. The surface of the saw virtually |
4. Flush-trim the cavity in the bottom of the torsion-box |
5. Assemble the case using glue and screws. Use layout lines to correctly |
6. Taper the sides of the legs using a taper jig on the tablesaw. |
7. Screw the leg hinges to the bottom of the router table top. |
8. Attach the top assembly to the case using a continuous hinge. Use a pair |
9. Drill and countersink eight holes through the table insert, and fasten |
10. Screw the self-closing hinges to the door and fasten the door to the |
11. Cut notches in the fence using a jigsaw. After the fence is |
12. Assemble the fence with glue and screws. Make sure the face |
This story originally appeared in American Woodworker March 2005, issue #113. |
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