Advice on router table

[tsb]

Can anyone give me any advice on the right road to go down re buying a router table. Don't know if to buy an off the shelf one which range from £25 to around £200 or I've looked at the woodpeckers site and seen an incra jig ultra router system fence. Should I buy something like that and make my own table. Is it worth the money over an off the shelf table. I don't want to regret buying something for the sake of price. I've done that in the past and it seems true when they say 'you get what you pay for'. Any advice on good points and bad points and what to look for would be appreciated

 

[Steve Maskery]

Hi tsb

There are lots of threads on here about router tables, table inserts and fences. We need a better idea about what you want, I think.

FWIW I made Norm's and it's great.
S

 

[motownmartin]

Hi tsb

I started off back in March with a cheap £30 Router table, which I thought at the time was fantastic but then it was all new to me.

The first problem I had was getting a Router to fit, the next thing was skinning my knuckles every time I changed the cutter, Noise was another issue and finally dust and chippings, what a mess, but the good thing was I could shape wood without using a hundred different hand planes.

Anyway, time went by and I made a blanket box using this router set up to cut the grooves for the panels and shape the frame but the setting up was a bit of a pain in the neck.

So I did the same as Steve Maskery, Tony, Lord Nibbo plus others and built Norm's router station without the fence but incorporated the Incra jig and fence system, fantastic and highly recommended.

There was a WIP thread which takes it through from start to finish with warts'n'all