A little router table that costs nothing!

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[jonkirkwood]

It's the old, "See you again next week. Same time. Same channel, " trick. I look forward to the sequel. A cheap, portable router table is something I can use. Thanks, James.

[kennethmiller]

As someone who is trying to get into woodworking and lacks a garage (thanks, Navy Housing), I can't thank you enough!

[Philipk]

Fantastic, finally a simple routing that doesn't need a plate from Amazon and easily made.

[bluepeakwoodworks]

Great! Now I can take a router table with me when my wife and I go on a vacation trip! 😂 Thanks, James. Seriously, this would be a great project to bring my old PC 690 back into use.

[richardandrew]

Hi Stumpy. Love your videos .
Greetings to you and all your many loyal viewers from Matamata, New Zealand.

[G.I.JeffsWorkbench]

Thanks again James for a practical solution for those of us who would occasionally benefit from a router table, but use one so seldom that it doesn’t makes sense to buy one. There are lots of DIY router table videos. This is my favorite for its simplicity & portability.

[homemedia]

I'm just getting into woodworking this is %100 on my list of things to make.
Your channel is a huge help in learning more about woodworking .
Thank you for sharing !!

[timdales]

Been following you for years and you always amaze me with your practical, no nonsense builds. Thank you! Thank you!

[SeanChYT]

Yeah, but I don't have a router, and I don't have wood, and the electricity in my garage just went out. 🙂

[budgetmerch]

I have a spare router with a broken trigger switch and I was planning to buy a cheap router table for it, but storage is a factor so I was reluctant, given the cost. I have an identical model that is fully working but I wanted to use my broken one with the trigger switch bypassed in a table that I could leave it in permanently. A separate on/off stop button on the table would then make it safe to use.

But when I saw your little project here, I fell in love with it - I have scraps of wood so I can put it together for nothing and the fact that it is less than a quarter of the dimensions I was expecting from a bought one, makes this just perfect. Thank you for this upload. I had toyed with the idea of building a table but never got beyond thinking about it because I had a much larger image in my head.

Definitely now subscribed to see what you have planned for it. Excellent!

[AB-nuwe]

James, that is awesome. I really don't like having to drag out my table top router table for a couple quick simple swipes through the router bit. This looks like a great fix for that. Can't wait to see it cut finger joints.

[jeffbaker]

If one makes this, don't go hard on the router bit and over stress the mounting screws. I made a small router table similar to this to mount a trim router, (Larissa Huff's project from Fine Woodworking actually), and someone at the community shop went really hard on it and the screws pulled through the top. The design and size are really meant for working carefully on small pieces or light passes. That's not to say it's not capable of being useful but it's not the same inertia and mass as a 3-hp router in a 300 pound cast iron table. I am really looking forward to the finger joint/box joint attachment that Stumpy promised us. Great teaser video! (For those that like football analogies, this table is a running back, not an offensive lineman.)

[crazykittenvideos]

Great little router table. If you make the height to a known size then making an extension for a run off for longer pieces would be straightforward. Very good project!

[askme]

Didnt have any MDF around so bought a 2x4 1/4" sheet from the Big Box store, that said, THANKS STUMPY! I now have a "router table" for my Dewalt DCW 600B battery router.
Works great so far and makes me much more comfortable routing things till I decide I need a corded and bigger table.

[RedcarWW]

Stumpy I love that you continue to churn out videos to advance people’s skills and the overall trade. Far too many YouTube woodworkers have fallen into a loop of buy this tool not that tool. Maybe they are burnt out, hit the end of their skillset, I honestly don’t know. One can only take so many of those videos. Especially when 10 different woodworkers you follow are doing similar vids. Trust me, I applaud them for the hard work they put in to get to this point. Just not my cup of tea. To you sir, I tip my hat.

[zymrgstfun]

I don't have a lot of space. This is so simple and amazing...Great idea Thanks

[Hamendar]

It's amazing to see how scarps of wood is converted into such a useful resource and that too in a simplest possible way! Many thanks for sharing this here 👍

[j]

Excellent idea for those of us who are newcomers or have little space for shop machines! Many thanks!!

[alswoodworkingbits]

It took me years before I realised it would be useful to have a tabletop trim router table to go with my NYW-style router table - for quick roundovers or anything that didn't need the power of a 1/2" router & bit it has been brilliant.