What's Sitting on Your Router Table?

[d_bondi]

Hello Everyone!

Someone (other than me) in a post recently made a comment about their router table and how they tend to collect "stuff". So, I thought I'd start a thread asking folks to share a before and after photo of their router table tops.

No staged photos please, just own it!

Here are mine, and yes, the clean top is the After photo.

 

[Kenny Durrant]

Just one box. I use it often so it doesn't collect much stuff/junk. When I need it I move it over to the drum sander. I use it often as well so I tend to keep them both clean. Same with the saw horses.

 

[jttheclockman]

No photos here but my shop is going through a makeover of sorts. My router table is getting an upgrade. I asked about router lifts and I just ordered a couple days ago a Jessem-Incra MasterII lift with a dust collection box that I will be installing. My thoughts are I am finally catching up on home projects and taking a break this winter so I can make a few projects to keep me or get me back into the groove of working in the shop. I think most here are going to like some of the projects I have in mind and I will see how many I can get done. Right now I have a little more hanging things up to do and then have some jigs to make that I will need. then it is using my new router and getting introduced again to my shop tools and that includes my ever trusted scrollsaw. Stay tuned and I will have photos for you.

 

[rherrell]

I have my shipping material on top of it, I save all the paper and plastic that I get in shipments and re-use it for items I ship.
It's somewhere in there between my hydraulic press and my bandsaw.

 

[KenB259]

Yeah, things accumulate on it. I bought a Rockler top years ago that fits in the t track.

 

[Brian G]

My mobile router table used to serve multi-duty as outfeed for my table saw (hence the platform over the top), as a flat surface for assembly, as a staging area for project parts, and a tool stage as currently shown.

It looks this way now because my workbench is occupied by my current project, a flip-top tool stand.

Usually, the router table top is cleared because I use the router or some other purpose often.

As an aside, that little Ryobi ML618 in the background is mostly for flush sanding tube ends, applying CA, buffing, and sometimes drilling blanks. I paid $40 for it 10 years ago, and it's paid for itself many times over.

 

[its_virgil]

Horizontal surfaces in the shop are both a blessing and a curse.

 

[Alan Morrison]

Not staged........some boxes that I am working on.

 

[jttheclockman]

Not staged........some boxes that I am working on.View attachment 390305

I did not know you were into box making. You have to show us your work. I too am setting up to do boxes hopefully in a couple weeks. As soon as I get shop organized. Who are you following? Or using as inspiration? They look familar. Are you going to sell? Have many questions.

Right now my router table is laying upside down on the floor as I wait for my router lift. I am moving the switch around to accomindate the dust collection box I bought.

You guys got nice tools over there. Send some to the USA

 

[Penultimate]

My router table is storing wall tile. Waiting for some electrical then I can start tiling and get my table back.

 

[leehljp]

Nothing right now. But It varies from week to week or month to month.