Patrick's Router Table Plans

Did you get a chance to watch Patrick and Gabriel Gallant's amazing Farmhouse Table video?

Did you notice Patrick's drool worthy shop furniture?

Well, after so many of you requested plans, Patrick offered to share the router table plans with you today!!!  

Yes, you can build this beautiful and super functional router table just like Patrick's!

Patrick has thought of everything!  Even the on/off switch and cords!

And for those super expensive router bits?

This router table has it all!

And more storage down below.

The cabinet is designed to work with a standard router table (suggest that you buy first and the router too).

Drawers are all on metal glides, and the whole cabinet is on casters too!

Please extend a HUGE thank you to Patrick for designing and sharing these router table plans with us!  We've worked together to develop a plan, and you'll see a few small mods just to make things a little simpler, but this one is really all Patrick.

And here's a few building notes directly from Patrick:

The top 2 drawers are 1x6's. I used 16" drawer slides and made 16" drawers but I could have gotten away with 18. 

Top left drawer. Use 16" full extension drawer slides. Cut 2 16" pieces out of your 1x6. Cut two pieces 4 7/8". Make a box out of these 4 pieces. Cut a 14 1/2" piece for the middle and drill a series of 1/4" and 1/2" holes in it. This will house your router bits. Mark a center line on the top piece and turn it over to make a center line on the bottom. This line is where you will center your top and bottom drawer slide. On the drawer opening in the face frame, mark a center line on top and bottom. This way you can center your drawer seeing as the drawer slides go on top and bottom instead of the sides. Cut the drawer front out of the 1x6 leaving enough room for 1/8" gap on all four sides. My drawer fronts were 7 1/8" long.

Top right drawer. The drawer front is also 7 1/8" long. All this is is a door disguised as a drawer. on the bottom of the drawer front, mark a center line. Mark a centerline on the face frame opening as well. Then attach a small door hinge on the bottom and a door magnet on the back.

Something to consider. Attach the table top before doing all of this. The space is too small to be able to get your drill in there to attach it after it's all done.

In order to get the size that I wanted, I had to make the bottom drawer fronts out of plywood. This means that the convenience of making drawer fronts out of standard size boards wasn't there. I cut the drawer fronts to fit and then attached 1/4 x 3/4 molding (nosing) whatever you call it on all four sides which are mitered at the ends. This can be difficult without a nail gun. 

The casters are 3'' lockable wheels. You can use the ones on the bolts like mine or you can use the ones that screw on.

Usually I use all 3/4 material for dividing the cabinets but this was pretty hard to do up at the top. What I ended up having to do was to use 1/4" plywood to divide the router from the drawers. Attach a square dowel to the cabinet and then attach the thin plywood to the square dowel.

The rest is just standard cabinet making.

Maybe I can draw some pics if this is too confusing. I can make components in sketchup but I can't put them all together for some reason.

Again, huge thank you to Patrick, and the plans follow!  Best luck building!

Router Table Plans