Home built router table and lift

[Chris Curl]

You folks are the people who would most understand that I am excited about this project, so I thought I would document it and get your thoughts on some of the aspects of it ...

the holder for the router ...









it will slide on 4 tracks. that should keep it firmly in place ...










here it is mocked up on the table top into which it is going



A pretty getto insert huh?

[Keystone]

I hope you can post a video of it in use once you get it completed. I think it's neat that you are taking the time to do this and documenting the process.

[Chris Curl]

Will do, thanks for looking.

[Chris Curl]

Here is a video of the lift in action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFp1sKKcuQw

[boneyabba]

Hey Chris I am really interested in looking more at the this design (hoping to get around to starting a table this weekend), but for some reason all the pics are cut in half vertically from the ad... Do you have them hosted somewhere you could link me to?

[boneyabba]

scratch that- I can scroll- I just need to scroll them ALL together

[boneyabba]

can you tell us about the vertical rail pieces?

[Chris Curl]

Ah, yes. Those are plastic lattice support rails that i got at home depot. There is a an area in the fencing section where they have plastic lattice. They were there, on a shelf behind the lattice, so it was hard to find it. They come in white and brown, and are 1/4" wide, and 8' long.

Perfect for this kind of thing and many other uses with 1/4" pieces.

[Chris Curl]

i re-sized the images, and made a little page with them all to make it a little easier to look at.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28210461/ima...er/router.html

[boneyabba]

Thanks Chris- that helps! I will check out the lattice section soonest.

I did not (of course?) get to starting this weekend. FML, where does my time go???