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- From: billy@hpcvcee.cv.hp.com (Bill Young)
- Newsgroups: rec.woodworking
- Subject: Re: ROUTER TABLES
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.161559.14666@hpcvca.cv.hp.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 16:15:59 GMT
- Article-I.D.: hpcvca.1993Jan27.161559.14666
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- pileiro@SATURN.GLASSBORO.EDU writes:
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- : I am presently considering building a router table for my small shop.
- : I will be using it for general routing and shaping as well as raised panels for
- : cabinet work. Has anybody had good results with any particular make or model
- : of router. I want one that it variable speed and of course can handle some
- : heavy duty use.
-
- My only piece of advice is to avoid plunge routers. I am using a large
- Porter Cable plunge router (3.25HP, variable speed, 1/2" collet) as both my
- freehand and table mounted router. It works great freehand, but fine tuning
- bit height while table mounted is even more of a pain than I thought it
- would be. I needed the plunge action for other things, but it sure wasn't
- designed for table-mounted operation (i.e. gravity works the wrong way). If
- money allowed, I'd have a dedicated router for my table. I have been real
- happy with the Porter-Cable router in all other respects, though.
-
- BTW. I built a router table from a plan in WOOD Magazine (of all things!),
- circa 1988-1990. The things I like about it are:
-
- 1) It's got a larger work surface than other plans (i.e. Woodsmith)
- that I've seen.
-
- 2) It's provides efficient dust removal (providing you've got a
- vacuum system of some sort).
-
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- Bill Young
- Hewlett-Packard Corp.
- Corvallis, Oregon
- EMail: billy@hp-pcd.cv.hp.com
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