One-day router table build

I really appreciated that you went into little details, like not pulling hard on the drill press. A lot of videos just assume we are experienced and leave us to learn the hard way. Thanks for sharing your learnings. 🙏

Bravo! I really like this! Thanks

When using a drill press, there is a serious hazard in using just your hands to hold the work piece material. When a drill bit binds or seizes in the work material, the material is swung around so fast that it often takes your hand with it before you can react or let go. A fellow that I worked with lost a finger when this happened to him. Pinched between the work piece and drill press column.

Please clamp your material to the drill press table. Or at least swing your material around in the same direction that the drill bit turns, so that your material contacts the drill press column before turning on the power. And hold down firmly if not clamped as your work piece will climb up on the drill bit, also causing it to bind. Anything too short to contact the drill press column before starting needs to be clamped, and that includes drill press vises.

thats awsome.. great tutorial! very easy to follow and great explanation!

Seems about 5 to 6 inches too high on that workbench.

I am thrilled I dicovered this channel!

Great steps

Good job, madam, with some caveats:
1. The worktop should not be made of chipboard, but of plywood, which is much stronger and resistant to abrasion and breakage.
2. The slots should be T-shaped, not V-shaped, and the bolts must be with hex heads with size matching the T-slots.
3. The fence does not need to be that thick, and should be made from one single piece to ensure straightness.
4. Use steel 90° L-joints instead of wooden blocks to fix the fence.
5. For extracting the dust and providing enough space for routing bits make an arch in the fence and attach a plastic or wooden dust collector (or suitable vacuum cleaner bit) on the rear side.
I hope your next project to be much more successful. Good luck!

Nice little router table. We shared this video on our homemade tools forum this week 😎

Does Larissa have more videos?

Hiya, I've been looking for something for my small wood trimmer & this is perfect. Thank you so much for sharing your awesome work 🥰

Is melamine carcinogenic!!??

How would you adjust the fence if it is not square?

Love the detail you put into this tutorial. Also, you are cute as a button!

... all you need is one board from your local wood store.... 

blank stare 

Ahh, yes and of course all the industrial grade equipment I saw come by during the ten minutes watching this short video....

Not wanting to be an arse, I really did enjoy the video and there are certainly things people will learn from it, but I'm guessing most people (like me) just have a hacksaw and a hand drill instead of the professional table saw and drill column that you're using. With respect, again. You absolutely look like you know what you're doing, so every compliment for this video, but I did feel I should mention this small bit of criticism. Carry on ! 🙂

Have any plans.

dewalt make terrible trim routers the screws hard ti remove Bosch is good

At my level: I can do it, a big Thank You ! ! !

Why do you guys use Imperial measurement system?????

Why no dimensions

Well interesting video. Why do you not use clamps and really on your arm strength instead? Also you appear to have forgotten a little ‘v’ channel at the bottom of your fence for wood dust to go……this seems to be the thing to do in the 20’s!!
Thanks
Bob
England

Psssst Larissa.........EARPLUGS!!!..... Btw nice video and I definitely need to make one

👍very simple
Well done..

Need a drill press and. Clamp

I was thinking when you first fitted the fence and how you might have to check that it’s square in the horizontal plane and then realised … DOH! It doesn’t matter does it because the fence will always be 90 degrees to the router bit…. What a silly man I am .,, hahah 😂

Fab channel glad I found you … liked and subscribed

Hey this is fabulous I want to do this. Thank you for sharing x

excellent job

Oh I like that a lot! So many of these things are just...so much more elaborate than they need to be.

Thank you very much, you are amazing

Stupid of me , i thought it was called "FineWoodworking" 🙄🙄🙄🙄🤦‍♂🤦‍♂🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

WOW very nice build, Well done ;-)

What a joy to see more women in DIY and in teaching roles too! Very nice.
This is just what I wanted to see. Not a big table as I don't have space, but a smaller one. Great!

NICE 👍, I have and ol small pc tablet stand that I am going to add a plate insert on to, a bit more basic than this one though

All you have left to do is cover the exposed edges with iron on melamine edge banding! 😀

Amazing job with this walkthrough tutorial. My initial plan was to build a table higher at waist level, but this is more portable and a better option for me overall.

Looks I have the perfect old coffee table to repurpose into a 1-day router table!

👏show de bola!

I’ve got the ryobi 1 1/2 HP router, would there be much different to change to be able to use it? Not a trim router so adjusting it is a bit different. Thanks

- Thanx 4 sharing how to make this efficient, practical router table. I've thought about making one so will begin mine in the next few days.

Thank you for doing this video on you router table. I have been looking to build a small router table and you have given me some really great ideas.

Nice simple build, but your casual use of PPE is a worry. No ear or lung protection while drilling is a problem. Hearing and lung damage is incremental. All of those small operations, add up over time. Drilling and shaping create fine dust every single time. And composite materials like that melamine particle board, are especially damaging to your lungs.

I would definitely add an edge to that melamine board used for the table top to protect it instead of chamfering it. It would protect it, and make it look a lot better as well.

Parabéns pelo trabalho muito bom abraços Deus te abençoe grandemente. Silvio ( laranjal paulista São Paulo Brasil)

👍👍 very cool !

👍👍👍👍parfait

Magic, you inspired me a lot, will start the table tomorrow, thank you

I call this video woman makes simple router table using tools 99.9% of us don’t own.

Great job.

Well, "That Was Easy"! Thanx a million, Larissa!!

Larissa is the best, more instruction from her!