Here's How You Build A Router Sled 

I like this idea. I'll have to save this video so that I can refer back to it. Good build. Thanks for your contribution to the community!!

Great build, another option for the angle iron is to use an old bed frame. Its a little smaller but useable and free. Keep up the good work.

Thanks for the tip on gong slower when routing . Other RU-vid videos show the router just zooming along

Use aluminium angle, it doesn't have the inside curve issue and the router base will slide directly and better on aluminium anyway. Saves having to clean the scale off the mild steel.

Thanks mate. Very helpful.

I like this video and also liked the dust collection idea. I have this same router and would like to build it like you have shown. What size each end pieces and the center piece is, please. I know they are like 7" wide and 20" together. Also is that a 3/4" thick plywood you have used? Thanks in advance & keep sharing good work.

You made my sled! I made a nearly identical sled a few years ago - on my channel. I can vouch that I have been using this as my sole flattening jig for years and nothing beats it. As you say though, table has to be flat.

I was thinking about building a sled using ball bearing slides but this seems pretty simple and cost wise very competitive. One comment: shouldn't you clean up the glue squeeze out on both faces before doing this? In the video, it's clear that the back side has a lot of glue protruding, meaning that even though your first side will be parallel to the table, if the whole thing was sitting a bit canted, you'll end up milling a lot of material from the reverse side.

Not the way I’m making mine but this is great. If I would have seen this first might not be using the linear rails. Suggest toe kicks on the edges ( guides) that your risers sit in.

What if you had your under support risers even with width of your work table. Then an additional piece of wood that attached to those and extended below the edge of the table. This would keep the sled from pushing away from you and would also help keep it aligned with your work piece as you move the sled down the work bench.

Just some semi stiff rubber like a bath matt, maybe cut strips for dust containment.

Mattress frames from Goodwill for the angle iron? Or not deep enough?

Just curious why you didn't sled on your planer? That being said I also built one just like this, but it was for a piece that was to big foe my Dewalt planer.

You really need a drill press. 😊

it's ES-pecially, not EC-specially.

Small shop? 😂😂😂 my workshop is 12 feet by 8, has workbenches on three walls, a mitre saw, thicknesser, bandsaw, scroll saw and bench sander , and a router table. Plus table saw, bench joiner and mobile bench for when the weathers good. Very cosy, very compact and quite dusty. I definitely need a better extraction system!

it's lessons, not "learnings", and disassemble, not "desemble".

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Its disassemble brah...