Well, here's my weekends endeavors. I got some of the cheap "cabinet grade" ply form HD. This stuff is really bad, but because it was the last few sheets and slightly dinged up, the manager gave them to me for $15 a sheet. Heck it's a shop fixture, it doesn't have to be pretty. I took that crappy ply and edged it with some red oak I around the shop. The drawers have curly maple faces and the lower doors are the same ply also edged in oak. I got about $60 in it so far, and $100 worth of Xmas money to spend on the top and fence assembly.
I am thinking of laminating 2 pieces of 3/4" MDF and then topping it with the phenolic coated 1/2" ply from Woodcraft. I can cut that ply to fit around the miter slot and fence T slots. Edging everything in some hardwood. That will give me a 2" thick top, which I will drop a Rousseau plate into with my 2 1/4 HP Dewalt router.
Dave
I am thinking of laminating 2 pieces of 3/4" MDF and then topping it with the phenolic coated 1/2" ply from Woodcraft. I can cut that ply to fit around the miter slot and fence T slots. Edging everything in some hardwood. That will give me a 2" thick top, which I will drop a Rousseau plate into with my 2 1/4 HP Dewalt router.
Dave