5 Cool Things To Do On Your Router Table // Tips and Tricks

[Music] have the piece of plywood here and be using as an adjustable shelf and pretty typical for something like this I've put a piece of edging on the front that's hardwood and I've left it proud about a little bit north of a sixteenth of an inch and I want to trim it flush to the face here now you might be tempted to take a handheld router with a flush trim bit and put it on top of here and run it along the only problem is that can get a little bit tippy let me show you how to use the router table to do this now here at the router table I've installed a half inch straight cutting bit with the bearing and I'm going to use that bearing to set this all up I've made this very simple auxilary fence all it is is a piece of MDF I've cut a hole in here so the bit can pass through I've installed some nuts and bolts that are going to get installed into the T track and when this is all put together it's going to raise this piece up about an inch off the top of the table now I want to take this fence and get it just about even with this ball bearing here I'm just going to take a steel ruler put it up against there just slowly move the fence over until it just kisses that bit they can see I still got a little bit of movement here that's okay I'm gonna use the micro just feature of this to get that even now that I have all this set up I can just take the face of the shelf place it against the fence and run it through so--that's I'm looking for is a nice flush surface let me show how to make a mortise using the router table first thing I've done is I've marked out my mortise now it's 2 inches long it's a quarter inch wide and on the front of the piece I've marked out where the starting and stopping points are on the end of the board I've marked out the thickness of it now I've got a quarter inch spiral up cut bit and actually since the broader is upside down it's me pulling the chips down I've got under the table with dust collection which will help draw the chips out of there and I've adjusted the fence so that router bit is sitting right between those two lines I've drawn on the end and that's going to show where the material is being taken away from now with my fence set to the correct depth I need to mark the starting and stopping points of the bit so I'm taking my piece of stock pushed it up against Cheryl take a piece of blue tape and put it in front just like this then I can take a square put it up against the trailing edge of the bit put it up to the leading edge of the bit and make a mark now I've got the starting and stopping points now for the first pass I've got the bit lower to a quarter inch above the table pretty much the rule of thumb is you don't want to go deeper than the bit is wide so I'm going to do this in three passes I'm gonna start at a quarter inch move it up to a half inch and then the full 3/4 inch depth of this mortise now the operation for doing this is really simple I'm just going to make sure that my piece is placed firmly up against the fence I'm going to lower it down on the first mark and push it through until it's the second mark and then raise it up raise the bit up and repeat a couple times till I get my three quarter inch depth [Music] [Applause] [Music] so I'm left with is a nice clean mortise 2 inches long 3/4 inches deep and perfectly centered on this board now I can either square the ends of this or surround over the shoulders of the timeline and make the tenon to fit this so I have these two boards that I want to glue together to make one board but as you can see I've got this really ugly gap here I'm going to show you how to set up the router table to use as a jointer so I've got this shim here I cut over the table saw it's about 1/32 of an inch thick it doesn't really matter something close to that is fine and I've got some double-sided tape on here what I want to do is peel this off and I'm going to take it and put it on the trailing edge of my fence and I've got a half inch straight cutting bit with a bearing on the top and what I want to do is I want to adjust the fence so the bearing is even with this so I'm just going to take this straight edge I'm going to turn it over because it's gonna give me a little bit of height I'm just going to adjust the fence until I just kiss that bearing well setup is pretty much done on this and you could use the shim as it is right here now my particular model of router table fence has an offset adjustment I'm gonna show you how to use that instead of using the shim now here's the offset feature of this router table you can see I've got little graduation marks there and I'm right there at the first mark each one of those marks is 1/32 of an inch so I can loosen this up and then slide this forward to the next mark tighten it down and now I'm now I'm at 1/32 of an inch [Music] now I want to try to make a coke and stick joint for doorframes now for this you are going to need a rail and style but for your router table the first step in this process that cut the COPE in the end of the rails and I've installed my coping bit my router table with the test piece monitor my coping sled I've marked down an eighth of an inch and I'm just gonna lower this bit until it hits that eighth of an inch mark now I can micro adjust my fence so it just kisses that ball bearing with the test piece on my coping slide and a backer board I'm ready to go ahead and make the test cut well my cuffs cut exactly where I want to be I'm going to go ahead and cut the rails on the real pieces mouthpiece I just cut facedown on the router table I'm going to use my micro adjust feature to get the top of this even with that rabbit I made before with my fence adjusted properly to the bearing and a feather board in place I'm ready to go ahead and run a test piece through so after making the tusks cut and putting two pieces dealer I can see that the style is a little bit proud of the rail on the back so I need to raise the bit up a little bit to compensate for that and then making our tusk cut so I ran our test piece tore after bumping the bit up a little bit and this is what I'm left with this is really really nice and smooth so I'm going to go ahead and run the rest of the pieces through the router so here's the completed doorframe everything is really nice and flush and square [Music] so let's make a raised panel for that doorframe we just made with the panel raising bit I've installed the panel raising bit in my router table and I've got it raised up just so it creates a little bit of a flat spot right above the top of this groove and I have the fence adjusted so that the depth of the bit is just outside the bottom of that groove with this all set up I'm going to run the piece through now this is not the final pass I need to make some adjustments after this initial pass [Music] so I've got that first edge cut and what I'm really shooting for is about 3/8 of an inch on that and I'm just a little bit north of that so I'm gonna make an adjustment to the fence run it through again and keep running it through until I get that to 3/8 of an inch well I'm at that 3 7 inch so I'm go ahead and run the other end through and then do the long-grain on each side now that I have the raised panel side complete I need to go on the back and I need to create a route that's 1/8 of an inch deep and 3/8 of an inch wide and installed a 1/2 inch straight cutting bit in my router table and it's raised up just shy of 1/8 of an inch and I've got a little bit more than 3/8 of an inch exposed on this so I'm go ahead and make a back cut on the panel and see where that leaves me so out for that initial Cod I did have to raise the bit up just a little bit but this is the fed I'm looking for it goes on easy but it doesn't come out either so I'm going to go ahead and run the rest of the board all the way around here's the completed race panel on the frame we made before looks great and very easy to do if you know the steps

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Keywords: woodworking, router, router table, tips and tricks, edge banding, mortise, jointer, cope and stick, raised panel, how to, router 101, diy, woodworking tips, woodworking tricks, power tools

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Length: 9min 57sec (597 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 22 2019