5 Router Table Upgrades

Almost any router table can be improved with the right accessories so that it’s safer, more accurate, more efficient or just plain more enjoyable to use! Check out these five accessories that are worth adding to your router table.

Order these router table accessories:

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[ToddMitchell]

Excellent recommendations from first to last. Thx!! The wish list keeps getting longer. :)

[tigertran]

I got all 5! The new Rocker router tray is very nice too! It holds my wrench, a few often used bits.

[afpitbull]

Excellent! I've added a few to my wish list.

[redlineacoustics]

Where can I get that “dog leg” wrench for tightening the lower collet nut? My flat wrench barely reaches.

[EagleLakeWoodworking]

You left out the only router lift that functionally changes the operations you can perform on the router table. The MLCS PowerLift Pro takes the concept of the plunge router and inverts it for use in the router table. The foot pedal allows you to bring the spinning bit up into the work piece. Making it possible to do mortising, circle cutting, stopped dadoes, incremental passes, etc.
Combine all that with .001" precision movements, memory positions, and other computer controlled features and its easy to see why it's unmatched by any mechanical lift.
So would you please consider the MLCS Powerlift Pro. It's a game changer

[musicbymark]

A quick free DIY version of raising the wingnuts/knobs for easy adjustment: cut pieces of broomstick/large dowel long enough to to rise above fence for easy access; DRILL them to accept your toilet bolts/T-head bolts, and apply your knob or wingnuts.

[MAGAMAN]

I know I'm sounding like a broken record, but this stuff can't hold a candle to the Incra router table systems. The incra router fence system is probably the most advanced and amazing fence system you can buy for a router. There are some videos of a guy demonstrating it that looks like it was shot in the 1990s and it really shows how amazing it is.

[tonyadams]

The ruler height thing is cool, but for the money, I’d expect it to have smaller increments stamped on it.

[neilcruz]

All of those Rockler jigs, tools, gauges etc. look amazing and I’m pretty sure they would make my life easier in the shop, unfortunately they’re not shipped to Puerto Rico 🤨🤨🤨

[pj]

I could not find the custom build up procedure for router tables on the Rockler Web site as you said on another Rockler video.

[kennethfrancis]

How is it..2 and a half years after launch...it has been brought to rocklers attention numerous times that the dial is wrong. It is wrong by half. each quarter of a turn raises or lowers the bit by 1/32 not 1/64th. and....even if the pitch for the lift was 1/16th per revolution...the scale is backwards...in this video you can clearly see the router is going down as he rotates the dial upwards. I have this lift...so for example...to actually take a 1/32 cut out of my workpiece....id zero out my scale...and when i rotated the dial to where it needed to be to actually make a 1/32 cut..the dial would read "3/64". I know the developers know about this error...I have a reply from rocklers tech support over 2 years ago thanking me for bringing it to their attention.

[AutotechWoodworking]

"Now there's no denying that router lifts are expensive, but if you're serious about taking your router table to the next level of performance and convenience, this is the way to do it."
Well I'm serious enough, but those router lifts are prohibitively expensive for someone that's on SS disability but still wants to start a "second" career after having to retire before my time.