About Watchmarks Router Tables
Watchmarks Router Tables helps readers with one job: hobby woodworkers building or upgrading a benchtop or cabinet router table, table-saw owners adding a router table in a saw extension wing, owners of a fixed-base router (Porter-Cable 690/890 and 7518, Bosch 1617, DeWalt 618, Milwaukee 5615/5625, Triton and similar) who want to mount it in a table and small furniture and cabinet shops replacing a worn plate, fence or lift.
Publisher
Watchmarks Router Tables is published by Watchmarks.
What we cover
- Router lifts (motor-holding lifts with their own plate)
- Insert plates (aluminum and phenolic, predrilled and blank)
- Insert rings (twist-lock and snap-in ring and reducer-ring sets)
- Router table fences (split, single-face and dust-port fences)
- Miter gauges (3/4 x 3/8 in miter-slot gauges and sleds)
- Featherboards and hold-downs (slot- and track-mounted, with starting pins)
- T-track and table hardware (stops, plate levelers, bit-height setup gauges)
What we do not cover
- Instructions for wiring routers, router switches or any mains-voltage connection (the site points to the maker's manual and a qualified electrician)
- Advice to remove, bypass or defeat bit guards, fence guards or power switches, or to route freehand without a starting pin, fence or bearing as the maker directs
- Running a bit above its maker-stated RPM, or bit-speed advice beyond the bit maker's published figures
- Router bits as a product family (they appear only as the diameters an insert ring must clear)
- Waxes, lubricants, finishes, adhesives and other chemicals
- Safety guarantees for featherboards, guards or push devices, and dust-exposure or health guarantees for fence dust ports
- Accuracy, flatness or precision figures stated beyond what the maker publishes, or presented as tested by us
- Complete router tables and routers as recommendations (they appear only as the reference systems parts fit)
Who writes this site
- Watchmarks Editorial. Watchmarks Editorial is the editorial byline of Watchmarks, published by WATCHMARKS LTD. Products are selected using the criteria on each site's How we choose page, and every specification is labeled with its source.