No offense, but an actual crafting table? As in, vanilla? Haven't we, as a community, stopped using those a while ago? I mean, back when RP2 was still relevant, there was the Project Table, which had a bunch of features that made it better then vanilla crafting tables. Now most mods that have unique crafting systems seem to have features like that old RP2 Project Table. And there is also Project Red, which should likely HAVE a Project Table like the one from RP2.
Even if you don't want to use all sorts of new-fangled mods with tons of things, if you have TiC, you can just take a crafting table, and shapelessly convert it into a TiC version which is much better.
I even have Forestry and it's take on such a thing to thank for not sucking like the vanilla system. It uses Ghost slots to make crafting a bit easier. Rather handy.