scott brown here in the last exciting episode i used my router to make floorboards and i
was correctly advised that i was doing it wrong and i should really get a router table
now the thing is i don't have a router table i have this little thing here which acts like
a router table but it works for a quarter inch router and the bits that i'm using a half inch
bigger router so we need another plate and we need another bench and we need to build it all together
as one full disclosure there's no plan here i'm just making this up as i go i have no drawings no
nothing like that that i'm going with we're just gonna use the materials that we have i've got some
plywood i picked up a couple of things yesterday let's just uh let's just see what happens
losing tools losing my mind now whatever i make here is probably going to be inspired by things
i've seen on youtube instagram stuff like that but also this router base that i just talked
about before this was made by frank carpenter13 if you're on instagram he made this for me like three
years ago and sent it to me from america and made a few other bases like this as well so it's out
of perspex so if you see this frank i'm inspired by you this is a piece of perspex eight mil thick
i'm going to build a base for my hikoki half inch router kind of with the same philosophy in mind
all right this perspex here 50 bucks it cost me i'm a little bit concerned
because apparently this stuff can shatter quite easily so let's um split it in half and then
if i butcher one half at least i got the other half right
all right this can be adjusted to 484 which was my measurement i believe tighten that there
oh it's stuck why is it stuck
oh that definitely moved all right that moved like three mil
on one end so one ends the right measurement the other end is three
and three mil short now the person i bought the perspex off said try it on the table saw
that totally worked that's much better didn't split
and we've got to even cut and i need to do something about dust extraction in here
god look at all this stuff plastic
so
this is one of those little hinge drill bits now the ones that have a little sleeve on it
and the sleeve comes down and the drill bit comes out and the idea is that it centers
this plastic is the nuisance that really clogs everything up
all right i'm not going to lie i'm nervous the drilling is the other thing that can
definitely go wrong i just need a hole big enough for the four screws but then the
tricky one is going to be the one in the middle that one's going to be a big hole
success
times four i think the heat of the drill bit's working it just kind of sinks in once it grabs
okay that's a good start
there we go we're in all right so i'm going to put it in reverse first
and then at least the teeth are dragging rather than cutting
have to go forward just to get down
i see wood
i don't think anything broke
i'm excited i'm very excited
all right talk to you later matt from fine line architecture our plans are very very
close to being submitted and we have to go back and forth on a lot of details
for the the doors and the beams and but we should be submitting it to council within the week
hey jess can you open the door
for me yeah well what do you think are you filming right now i sure am ah
cool what do you think juice yeah what is it i don't know what this says it's a router plate
um that's going to ultimately be flipped upside down and turned and turned into a router table
yes i don't understand what that is but cool
everyone's favorite time of day smoker time look just took your advice fungus snap catchers
let's caught a couple on that guy i also changed the soil for a bunch of them pop more grit so yeah
hopefully they don't die i think it's time for another coffee for me as well
so that is the first component of the router table
and now i need an actual table for the base plate to go into right otherwise it's
just a big fat router base plate you're going to mail the camera to the camera
don't let me forget that water bottle there we have the base plate
now i just need something to put it in and i've got a few thoughts about this
all right thought number one i don't want another table i don't want another surface
area that i have to wheel out of my way i've got enough of those as it is so i'm going to
work with the tables that i have number two is whatever i build has to be able to hold all this
mass here and thought number three is i do need a pretty big surface area like at least half a meter
all right so this is going to hang off my workbench 350 and the router is going to
be hanging under there like that you know this is definitely inspired by rom pork
don't do what i'm doing i'm just making it up as i go i'll put ron pork's plans below
and then you can actually follow someone who's actually thought about this rather than me who's
making it up on the spot i'll put them in the description below yeah i'm basically on his idea
all right i'm having a slight change of height here the 17mm ply
seems a bit thin so i've got this thicker stuff here this is an off cut of that little
cabinet that i built it's in the house this cabinet here i feel like that's less likely
to bend when it's hanging off the edge of the workbench with the router weight
pulling it down so i'm gonna go over that it means i have to lift the plywood sheet again
so that's going to drop in the middle and then you know i'll stand where you are and then push stuff
through here it's kind of the same philosophy as a table saw if i want to rip something thin you know
if i want to rip that into like 10 mil trying to do that with a circular saw is going to be
tricky i won't be able to hold the timber it gets a bit complicated so i take it to the table saw
and just push it through similar philosophy here if i want to router long strips of wood trying to
hold the wood and hold the router it's not going to work so i take the small timber to the big tool
we'll make that little wheel run along this
all right we're working now is the microphone working now hope so
this is the moment of glory i've rounded off three corners
and left one square so i know which way to put the face plate in and there we go same level
now i need a fence through there and the fence needs to be able to
slide back and forth so i bought some t-track here and that t-track i hope it's not too windy
that t-track needs to be like this needs to be flush which means more routering
all right i need to use my base plate for this
it's just satisfying it's finished thing isn't it on the other side
there you go that looks legit oh i'm happy about this this is going to plan hopefully
i'll get enough time to build this fence in this video but at least get the fence track soon good
thing about a clear router base you can measure everything and see everything 140 to the side
all right just gonna trim these tracks drop them in place
i'm very sad to say that a bit of a mistake this thing started sliding as i was routing
and i pretty much butchered the top
so this one drops in there beautifully
flush with the in there a little bit of a cut out there that's that's okay though but then this one
it's a little little loose but that's okay but then you get to the end and uh
big gap not great is it it started slipping i think i didn't remember to clamp one end
so i'm just going to screw these in and then this will be an adjustable fence slide in and out
you get it right look it's hanging off it's thick enough to support the weight of the router
and it doesn't take up another table i just lift the router out
and clamp it from the table and then i can just like hang it on the wall or something
so
it's already 4 30 and it's already getting dark let's jump to tomorrow
look what i've got this here that goes into the aluminium track that i routed into the table and
then i loosen it move the fence and then turn that to tighten it and that way you don't need a
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i bought a few of the t-bolts and i got a few of these too so i'm going to make that fence work
that'll be coming up in a future exciting episode and i know this background is not my usual i'll
explain that in the next exciting episode what do you think of the router table uh have you done
router tables in the past any things that i should add on maybe some sort of dust extraction tips i'd
love to know let me know in the comments below and i'll see you in the next exciting episode