DichotomyOne

In this ongoing quest to set up our shop and make some tool boxes I made a bench top router table and here is the basic drawing and story about that.    I wanted a very basic router table with which to make some other tools, a drill press table, a finger joint fixture, and some router lock jointed drawers. I wanted it to be adjustable and quick. The lock joints I make need to be adjusted and fit correctly. The others need the same kind of adjustments to fit correctly. From this comes the next few projects... full router table with lift and possibly a thickness sander with a modified and expanded router lift.  I think this router table will do the trick for now.   These first three pictures show the general shape of the base of the table. It has a bench hook, grooves to mount the miter t-track. The side mounted t-track will secure the fence carrier. The second picture shows the structure of the back of the base. The third picture shows the cut out in the bottom to allow the rou

This is in the current set of projects being build to make some tool boxes... Yes I need a drill press that functions in boring both horizontally and vertically positioned pieces of wood and metal. So this is the design I thought would serve as a starting point for that task.     I got this from WoodArchivist in the drill press section. Apparently this was originally published in Woodcraft Magazine and designed by Chuck Hedlund. The article has no other publishing information. My take on this design is below. It is considerably changed and includes a very much expanded support box, redesigned vertical table and sliding fence, a full replace of the sliding feature of the vertical table using a sliding miter slot and cleat, as well as extended drill press controls, and a redesigned horizontal fence.  These are preliminary plans and are going to always be a bit of a prototype drawing no matter what I make so take that into account. I charge nothing and I make no guarante

As I previously noted I want to make some box jointed tool boxes since the issue of finding tools in my shop is just becoming silly. I want to make router lock jointed drawers for these tool boxes. To that end I am making a box joint jig, a router table, and a drill press table... Not necessarily in that order. The Router table is complete. I still have to draw out some plans for the bench version that is put together and I will post that eventually. I have the plan drawn out for the drill press table and will post it as soon as I can get it emailed to this account... probably in the next 2 days   I am going to post what I can on the adjustable box joint jig here. The jig is from ShopNotes Vol.2, Issue 8. Published July 1993 by Woodsmith. Obviously since this is copyright material and I will not just drop the thing into this blog.  But I will drop the first page for your perusal and a couple of incomplete drawings I made from online sources