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ROUTER TABLE

MICRO-ADJUSTER

© 2009 August Home Publishing Co.


Woodworking
Technique

Router Table Micro-Adjuster


Set up your router table fence quickly and accurately with the turn
of this easy-to-build micro-adjuster.

S ometimes, setting
up the router in the
router table and tweaking
Not to say that you ever
want to sacrifice precision
and accuracy for speed.
mean you’d have even
more work to do.
Still, there are all sorts
a lot quicker. One of the
best examples is this easy-
to-build device that will
the position of the adjust- After all, with a hurried of simple shortcuts you help you position your
able fence seem to take setup, your workpiece can take that will cut down router table fence in record
more time than actually could easily end up in the the hassle and make the time — without adding to
routing the workpiece. scrap bin. And that would router table setup process your scrap bin.

Router Fence Micro-Adjuster


Fine-tuning a router fence clamped to the edge of the
can be a hassle. It’s hard table top behind my router
to see how much you’re fence, as you can see in the
adjusting the fence, and photo here. The adjuster
there’s no measuring tape isn’t connected to the fence
like there is on a table saw. in any way (so you can use
Plus, it’s easy to “bump” the it with just about any type of
fence too hard (or not quite router fence). Instead, the
hard enough) so that a sim- micro-adjuster simply push-
ple setup takes several test es the fence forward (or acts
passes before it’s right. as a stop that you can push
To solve this, I made a the fence against). When using the micro- by turning the adjuster. (If
micro-adjuster that can be What makes the whole adjuster, roughly position you need to back off the
thing work is a hex bolt that the fence and clamp the bolt, the fence will need to
REFERENCE MARK runs through a common T- adjuster to the table. Then be pushed back against it.)
nut in the block, as shown with the opposite end of Once the router fence is in
in Fig. 1 below. A wing nut the fence tightened, you the right position, simply
To make adjustment, makes the bolt easier to turn, can fine-tune its position clamp it down.
loosen clamp
and a spring keeps tension
on the bolt and prevents it a. Bolt pushes
fence SECTION
from vibrating loose. VIEW
Clamp
Make mark before
adjusting fence
1 Fence
a. T-nut Spring
Fence

Fence
#/8" T-nut #/8"
#/8" x 4" washers
Pencil
mark hex bolt
Hex nut

{ When fine-tuning the router fence, it’s Adjustable Wing nut


hard to see how much it’s actually being block
moved. So to make the adjustments
Compression NOTE: Clamp
easy to see, I simply make a reference spring block to table
mark beside the fence.

1 www.Woodsmith.com © 2009 August Home Publishing Co. All Rights Reserved.

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