That's a beauty!

 

As I mentioned in the thread planer vrs jointer it depends on the individual, I went through a period in my life where my wife and two kids were my priority so splurging on tools was not an option unless absolutely necessary.
If there is a good local source of S4S material the DIYer could likely get by quite well with a router table like that to true up edges with the added ability to profile the material.

 

you have my upmost respect for getting your prioritys right

 

A lot of these conversations are misleading, often giving new woodworkers the impression they need a table saw first then a jointer, etc.

 

So true, there are those with too much money showing off and coming across as experts because they have a lot of toys. Telling someone how to solve a problem simply by buying an expensive tool is not helpful or reasonable in most cases.

 

Lots of ways to skin a cat.

Many are about the shop. Many can go to YouTube , watch the task and express knowledge of it and never performed it themselves.,

 

Online forums and discussion groups are infected by "Googlesperts".

 

It just needs to be fun.

 

I can go to Metro hardwoods and they sell S3S and I can see , check and purchase useable boards. If I go to a sawmill I buy in the rough, can’t really see what’s going on with grain, have to process it and hope for tye best..

 

I think I’m going to repair one Dewalt 625 and put the other in the router table. In the past I would drop a 3 hp router in to do the crowns on raised panel doors, but I haven’t done crown doors in years. I use Rousseau plates in all my router tables so I can swap between them.

 

Question:
How did you build that nice router table without using a table saw?
Seems like that would be all but impossible, and would prove my point about getting a table saw first, before other woodworking machines.
And BTW, it's also the opinion of just about every credible You Tube woodworker out there.
They don't call the table saw the "center piece of every wood shop" for no reason.

 

Whos talking about a table saw?

 

Where I benefitted the most was on the angles for the Adirondack chairs cutting the parts rough on the band saw and using the router jointer to straighten and clean the parts..more visual..

 

A lot of these conversations are misleading, often giving new woodworkers the impression they need a table saw first then a jointer, etc.

Whos talking about a table saw?

You did.

 

So the topic was about a route4 table jointer. Add to the conversation is it’s relevant to the subject..