How To Build A Router Table Fence
The longer upright will be used as the guiding fence to hold the wood in position as you cut it while the shorter angle is used to secure this to the side of the table.
How to build a router table fence. Cut your fence parts carefully and check them with a square. Drill for the rods with fence supports face down on the drill press table. One for use with a 4 dust collection hose from below and the other to use with a shopvac hose attached to the fence.
The cutouts come together to form an opening for the router bit. Next locate the holes for the T-bolts. Since the spacers are longer than the auxiliary fence mark your pieces based on a centerline.
Draw a line along the edge of the long side of the square. Slots using a straight board clamped to the router table as a temporary fence. This is the most basic method to control the depth of cut of the router bit.
The most important thing to keep in mind when building a router table fence is that it absolutely must be square to the tabletop. Then flip the tool over aligning the base of the mark with the same edge of the square. There are 2 piece adjustable fences or just the simple one piece that is also a zero clearance fence.
With the fence in position I made a mark in line with the tracks so I could drill the holes. This plan fits a standard 3-12 diameter router. A 14 hole was drilled then reamed with a 14 reamer to allow the fence adjustment rods to slide through easily.
This is the angle of the router table fence. Use the factory edge of a piece of plywood or an edge that you know is perfectly straight to align the short side of your square. The lift extends 15-34 below the surface of the table.