The EASIEST DIY Router Table on YouTube

This week I made the easiest Router Table possible, using just an offcut of 12mm plywood. The results? Incredible. The best part? It stows away in my offcut pile - no need for a dedicated router table in my home office/workshop.

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Hi, I'm Pete. Northern Works is all about DIY furniture and home improvement projects that help us to consume less, and create more. I've got an ever-growing list of projects, and I'm excited to learn how to build things that I want to use, and that we'd love to see around our home.

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What I used in this video:

- 12mm plywood

[maxcassinelli]

It's really refreshing to see a "beginner" video that doesn't assume that you have a whole workshop full of tools available

[GoCreateSomething]

So if you have a sled for your table saw, you could just put your five holes in that and have one less board lying around the shop. This one might give you a little more freedom in how you can move the work piece, though. This kind of makes the router table a jig which is nice. You can literally clamp or tape any shape to it to hold the work piece for repeatable cuts. If you have some wall space you could just hinge that board to the wall and fold it out when you need the routing table. It could also be a folding outfeed table for your table saw.

One thing that would make life better with that would be one of those cheap foot switches so you don't have to get under the table to turn it on and off.

It is amazing how inspirational something this simple can be.

[billj]

I did something similar but I mounted the router under the outfeed table for my table saw. I also made a simple fence by drilling a hole some distance away from the router and putting a T-nut under the table. I just use a long piece of wood for the fence, with a notch in it to clear the router bit. One end is bolted to the T-nut, the other end hangs off the edge of the table and when I swing it around to where it needs to be I clamp it at the edge.

[grantjackson]

Hello mate, just come across your channel. Love your work. Picked up woodworking about two years ago randomly when trying to make a basic bench in the garage to refit grips on my golf clubs. It’s been downhill since then and the golf clubs are now literally covered in saw(dust) . YouTube is full of guys with massive workshops and every powertool known to man. Great to see you making stuff with the things mere mortals have at their disposal! Keep it up!

[rmarks]

Thanks for a great solution at no cost, easy enough way that even I can do it.
I look forward to watching more of your videos during the long winter months here in Montana.
Shout out to Start Making (woodworking) for introducing me to your channel.

[wjjeevc]

Cheers for this, I’m getting straight onto building one with an upgrade to phenolic ply👍

[PureBloodWNC]

I enjoyed watching your pup in and out of shots. 😊 We don’t deserve dogs. Mans best friend indeed.

Great, simple project too. I plan to do something similar soon!

[ivantodorov]

Genius things are simple! Thank You man! Great!

[MrSkunky]

No nonsense And as is.... Love it !!!

[rogerdevries]

Love the simplicity, you might find a foot or floor switch handy for turning on and off while working !!!!

[garygerard]

This video shows me just what I wanted to find out
about building a simple router table.
thank you

[quirtdrozario]

I like this. Think I'll do the same . Yeah, sure. I'll give it a go. Thanks for this video.

[HaveaLukeatthis]

A great, simple solution - good work!

[wojciechbartczak]

Only small feature missing here is a fence. But that should be easy. I bet you have some small off-cut or leftover from projects. What works amazingly good is L shaped aluminum profiles that you can buy in any bigger shop.

[MichaelCarroll]

I reckon I'll do the same thing... mainly because my router is the scariest of all my power tools and using it this way does look safer and more practical!

[Ozninjaguy]

Good idea. Have you designed a fence for this table?

[mvilla]

Thank you so much def going to try this method

[rickb]

Love your videos, simple, practical but clever 👍

[evelyngorfram]

Great idea & execution. One thought: either label it clearly something like "ROUTER TABLE, " or else don't store it with the scrap wood. 😉

[dekdeejay]

great video, make me laugh when people show you how to make cheap stuff using there 50 million quid's worth of tools, loved it the minimal tools job done !!!