Infinity Coping Sled - $47.90

[jussi]

http://www.infinitytools.com/Safety-...tinfo/COP-200/

Around $55 with shipping for me.

Even at the sale price, is it worth it or will the cheaper ones work just as well? Or building your own?

[LinuxRandal]

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Even at the sale price, is it worth it or will the cheaper ones work just as well? Or building your own?

You might hit up the library and check out Bill Hylton's router books, or Pat Warners. I believe one of them had one in it. I have wondered this as well. My father built his, based on some advice I gave him (general plans, websites, etc), and I was planning on the same, until I found a Pinnacle one, locally on CL, for less then the clamps to make one.

[jgrobler]

When I did my kitchen cabinets I built a very simple one, 15" by 15" 1/4 sheet plywood, with a 1" high fence, about 9" from the front, that simply rode against the router table fence. Very easy to make, very easy to change the fence to get another router bit profile to prevent tearout, and alignment of the workpiece to the bit's bearing is easy, line it up to the table fence. If you want I will take a pic tomorrow or so to post.
Something I did not do, that I still want to, is to put a holddown clamp on it too.

Johan