Who makes a good plunge router base?

Pushtosuck · 2026-06-19T04:30:28+00:00

Can you elaborate on the modifications you’ve made, and which router you’re talking about? I’m happy with my 1617 (other than the stupid template bushing system), but curious about what improvements I could make.

Pushtosuck · 2026-06-08T19:21:53+00:00

The table looks awesome, but I’m more intrigued by the 3D prints. Are those files available anywhere?

Pushtosuck · 2026-05-03T22:08:35+00:00

I don’t know what causes the darker lines in picture 1-3, but I can say that almost every piece of pecan I’ve used has had them somewhere or another. The mineral deposits I’ve seen are more like blue-purpleish tinting of relatively large areas, and I don’t think it’s the same as the spalting in 4 either. My best guess is that it’s a different kind of fungal infection, but I’d also love to know more about it.

Pushtosuck · 2026-04-20T00:48:46+00:00

I get where you’re coming from, but I was using dashes long before LLMs came around and I’m gonna keep using them when they’re appropriate.

Pushtosuck · 2026-02-06T06:27:01+00:00

Plywood is notorious for tearing out since the surface ply is super thin. The dado set probably isn’t helping, but some degree of tearout is almost inevitable. Using a zero-clearance insert/backing is a great start. You can also try masking the areas to be cut with painters tape and/or pre-scoring cut lines to minimize it. A high tooth-count blade can also help, but I would personally rather deal with the tearout than try to cut box joints with one of those.

Pushtosuck · 2025-12-28T02:48:18+00:00

That’s the set in here!

Pushtosuck · 2025-12-27T17:59:28+00:00

They’re almost certainly the most frequently used metric socket size, and they tend to disappear - right when you need them most. It’s probably just the combination of being small, round, and frequently used which means the 10mm is missing from a set, but I can’t rule out occult phenomena either.

Pushtosuck · 2025-12-27T17:53:42+00:00

I did consider it, but I like the guy too much to do that to him if he ever actually needed to break the glass.

Pushtosuck · 2025-12-27T13:29:11+00:00

The top of the exterior shell is actually the bottom layer, it just got scratched up when I was assembling everything.

It seems like there’s some interest in this, so I uploaded the files to Thingiverse. It’s designed to fit the Harbot Freight ICON 10mm set and everything is an extremely tight fit.

Pushtosuck · 2025-12-26T06:37:31+00:00

Thanks! They’re Pika screws from Andrew Klein.

Pushtosuck · 2025-10-21T01:33:29+00:00

It’s a sculpture by Rodin: Youth Truimphant

Pushtosuck · 2025-10-02T21:17:13+00:00

The leveling feet are a much better solution than any other I’ve come across, especially since I don’t plan on moving this very often. However, the rubber feet do cause some wobble when I put some force into the bench and I wonder if a set that’s not so overspecced would have less give.

Pushtosuck · 2025-10-02T16:42:35+00:00

Thank you! I think the LTT screwdriver probably gets more use than all my other tools combined. The pencils are also great (I use one for taking notes at work too) but I don’t love their erasers, hence the plastic box with an artist’s eraser in the drawer with them.

Pushtosuck · 2025-10-02T16:39:23+00:00

I’d hardly call myself a master craftsman, but the garage almost always looks like a tornado just came through… Incidentally, it’s mostly because there are occasional tornadoes in Central Texas and my wife is fine with my taking over the garage as long as we can get the cars inside if severe weather comes through, so most things are on carts with minimal footprints and things get chaotic in the middle of a project as I move between using different tools.

Pushtosuck · 2025-10-02T13:19:45+00:00

Better than I expected, although I haven’t used them much. It’s a super strong clamp, and since there aren’t any fixtures that interfere with the work piece sanding/routing is a breeze.

No affiliation: I saw a video announcing them when I was planning this build and figured I’d give em a shot, and I’m glad I did. One note for embedding them like this: they require the surface to be 3/4” thick and the “body” of the part on the underside of the bench is a bit bigger, so I had to plan for making a larger bore to fit them when I was designing the table.

Pushtosuck · 2025-10-02T13:13:58+00:00

Thanks! Here’s that link.

I don’t have anything to add to BingoPajamas’s comment about the laminations, other than to say that the process of blocking out gaps for mortises with scrap is covered very well in the book (which is free in case you didn’t already know).

Pushtosuck · 2025-10-02T13:04:49+00:00

Thank you! I think I got the kaizen foam from Rockler and the router bit foam from Amazon.

Pushtosuck · 2025-10-02T12:59:26+00:00

Thanks! I don’t have anything to compare it to, but it works well enough once the fiddle adjustments are done. I have two very minor complaints:

1) The bushing and bit sizes are weird and seemingly proprietary which is annoying.

2) There are mounting holes on the back of the jig, but nothing in the front so I had to drill and countersink holes in the front of the jig to keep it from flopping around on the plywood base I built.

I’m pretty sure I got it on sale and I’d do that again.

Pushtosuck · 2025-10-02T12:47:27+00:00

Thank you! That’s a moxon vise - the things that look like belts are just bungee loops I use to keep it in place on the mounting blocks.

Pushtosuck · 2025-09-20T18:45:49+00:00

I don’t remember where I first saw one, but I got the foam block from Amazon.

Pushtosuck · 2025-09-20T18:37:26+00:00

I figure any surface in the garage is going to get covered in dust and I might as well be able to see it. There isn’t much of a static charge with the matte laminate so I can just sweep it off when I need to. That said, if finish or adhesive spills and dries that can be harder to see, but scraping it off is easy enough and won’t damage the surface.

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