Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] wooden table for a router

What about concrete? You could use wood to frame it. The concern I would have about wood is the
shrinking and expanding as humidity changed. But it you don't need precision it could work.

I have seen optical tables made from stone slab to damping vibrations.


--- ccq@... wrote:

> On Sun Jul 13 18:38:21 2003 turbulatordude wrote:
> >
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I friend was amazed at my CNC stuff and since he is a carpenter, he
> >asked if I could make him one.
> >
> >I told him that a steel table is $$$ and he asked if anybody uses
> >wood for the tables ?
> >
> >the project woudl be to be able to have a work envelope for a 4 ' by
> >8' foot sheet of plywood, and the gantry would be of aluminum.
> >Linear rails for the gantry so only the table would be wood.
> >
> >anbody do this with good results ?
> >
> >Dave
>
> Yo Dave;
>
> Whatever the table is built from, it might be an idea to make it an inch or two
> larger than the dimensions you gave. That way there will be room for
> positioning, and edge triming, etc.
>
> Bill
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