6-IN-1 TRIM Router Jig - freehand routing, inlays, edge-banding, mortises, dados, circles & more!

today i'm going to make a six in one jig for your trim router this jig can handle fine detail work inlays trimming edge banding mortises and grooves it also has an extension fence where you can cut circles big or small this jig is going to be really easy to make because i already prepared a template on the computer for you guys you could download this on my website and all you're going to need to do is follow the lines here the easiest way that i found possible to tape up templates is to do it on a window this way you can clearly see the colors coming through on the other side and it's really easy to line everything up now i could just cut the template out using a straight edge i want to try to keep this cut as straight as i possibly can now the material i'm going to use is a quarter inch thick acrylic and i tried my hardest to fit this whole jig on a 12 by 12 piece for the template but i just couldn't do it it just wouldn't have as much functionality in it so this is a 12 by 24 piece of quarter inch thick acrylic i used some spray adhesive to attach the template and tried my best to line up the edges so it appears that this piece of acrylic is slightly undersized my template was 12 inches and this acrylic is about an eighth under should have listened to the amazon reviews that said that it was undersized but we'll just make it work before moving on to any cutting the first thing that i want to do is take an awl and i'm just going to mark in all the cross hairs and that way when it comes to drilling it's going to be really accurate and don't worry about writing down all these steps it's all written out very clearly in the plans that are available with the template on my website time to start cutting so i designed this jig so that you only need a trim router to make it well i guess a table saw also or circular saw but mainly you only need a trim router and i'm assuming that you have one or you're planning on getting one because this jig is meant for only using with a trim router you can make this on the router table and it's going to be way easier but i guess i'm just making my life difficult to show you how to make this with only a trim router another key thing you're going to need here is some sort of straight edge so i like to use this jig that i made it's really easy and simple to make not necessary to make this jig but it will definitely make your life easier and you can make this in about 10 minutes the first step is on these pieces that are marked d and e all i'm going to do is i'm going to score these cross hairs going across everything with a v-groove bit and that's going to help with the aligning when i use this for the circle cutting jig line my router jig up onto those lines clamp this into place lift up the flap and now the router bit is set really really shallow so it's only going to like make a tiny little score in there now i'll just repeat the same process of the lines going in this direction a good way to check if your straight edge is in the right spot is to take the v groove bit and just line it up on the other crosshairs that are on that there we go on the jig there and if the tip of the bit lines up with the crosshairs both in the front and back then you are good to go you want these cuts to go just beyond the edge of the piece like into the gray cut lines before doing the rest of the routing i'll drill all the through holes now parts d e and f get an eighth inch through hole that are going to go through the center while i'm at it i might as well drill some holes over here this is where the handles for the main part of the base are going to go and i'm going to need to countersink these holes so it's going to be easier to drill a through hole now so that i could do the whole countersinking situation later [Music] all of the yellow parts on the template mean that it's a quarter inch wide hole so there's a few spots here like on this a piece and on this g piece where it's just a hole and it's not a slot so it doesn't need to be routed so right now i'll drill that quarter inch hole into those spots oh wait oh i wasn't supposed to drill that out yet okay so i mentioned before that i drilled an eighth inch hole in this spot to help with countersinking and i meant to countersink these first and then drill that quarter inch through hole all right so i'm making this mistake so you don't have to all that's going to be noted in the plans don't worry all right now comes the fun part so again i'm going to take that straight edge jig that i have and i'm going to line it up on all of those yellow marks because that's those quarter inch lines and i'll use a quarter inch bit in my router and i'll just plunge all the way through and i'm using this piece of mdf underneath just as a backer board because i don't want to cut into my bench here okay so the next step is to basically just repeat the same process just lining it up on those marks and now cutting away at the red marks using a half inch bit now with the half inch bit i'm not going to go all the way through you just want to go as deep as the thickness of the head of the t-bolt that you're going to use all right now all you need to do is cut all these pieces to size so i made this easy once again all of these gray lines here are the cut lines so you can do this at the miter saw i'm going to cut this at the table saw now this next part is really critical but i couldn't put this in the plans because everybody's router is different and this isn't going to be the same for each individual router so what you want to do is mark out the hole locations onto here so that your router is going to fit into here the way that i came up to do this was remember we used an awl to go into the center of the crosshairs so you can take your trim router and put in a v-groove bit and if your holes that attach on this bottom base plate go all the way through you can then take that v-groove bit and put it in the center of that indent that you made with the awl and then use either a pencil or a drill bit or something to fit into those holes and that's going to accurately mark out where to drill for your router or if your holes don't go all the way through mine two of them go all the way through but two of them don't so what you could also do is take that v-groove bit line it up where the awl was the router is off and there's no battery now by the way so now that that's in the center you can just take a pencil and mark around it now you take the base plate and line it up with all those marks that you just made and then you can accurately mark out where to drill those four holes and drilling these out is going to be a three-step process first go all the way through with a very small like eighth inch bit now drill a recessed hole with a forstner bit using this hole as a guide and make sure you're making these holes on the top of the template like where you routed all of those lines those red lines now while i'm over here i'm also going to use that same forstner bit to recess these holes for the handles this was that mistake that i made earlier i made that whole um the final hole where i should have first done the recess and then done the final hole this makes it easier to align the forstner bit see this first one's going to be really well aligned the second one that i messed up probably won't be so good wasn't too bad but it could have been better now finally the last step in the process drill all the way through those holes and using that eighth inch hole as a guide these are going to come out really centered nice one last step before we can use it to drill out the center hole for the router bits so i'm going to use an inch and a quarter bit here but use whatever you have and whatever fits the router bits that you plan on using with this jig all right time to peel all the templates off all right now let's see how this works what what's for dinner what is for dinner between woodworking editing these videos drawing up 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make this new and improved one so you can use dowel material you can use square stock and just shape it so it feels comfortable you can purchase handles just whatever feels comfortable for you to hold all right next up we need to attach the router onto here if you did this correctly the holes should all line up but the hole that was drilled out here this quarter inch hole is larger than these screws so there is some wiggle room and some play in there make sure not to over tighten it because you don't want to crack the acrylic the first way to use it is just like this it's just to have more control as your freehand routing so i'll write something on here and i'll easily be able to follow the lines because i have more control than having to just hold this small little base here the next feature is flush cutting inlays and dowels so i just cut this hole in here and i'll plug it up with a dowel i'm just going to quickly use some ca glue for time but you would use regular wood glue for something like this pretend like that's like a dovetail key or some sort of inlay or the end of a dowel on joinery so if you just try to flush cut this like this you see it's not going to work this needs to be lifted up and raised a little bit so that it can ride along the wood and flush cut that that's where all of these attachments come into play so for something like this you have options you can just use the rectangular pieces and attach them to the bottom and that will lift up the whole thing enough so that you it has some clearance but i also made this larger base plate that has more surface area and it will be more stable it also has this point in it so that you can get into some tight corners if you need to so i'm going to put one of these on the side here and i'll take just another rectangle and just put it on the edge over here just to keep it a little bit balanced the t-bolts go underneath they fit into the slots that were routed out some washers go on the t-bolts and then those base pieces get locked in with these knobs to set the bit height for this i would take a piece of paper and i would put it right under the bit and then lower the bit and now that i know that it's set so that it will cut this flush but it won't dig into the plywood okay so that's pretty awesome it did not mar the plywood at all and it's super flush awesome the next feature is going to be to flush up some hardwood edge banding and for this one you're going to need all three of the rectangles you're also probably going to need longer t-bolts the first two rectangles get stacked together this is actually going to be a little bit easier because later on when i show you the circle cutting jig there's going to be a little pin that's going to be permanently affixed in one of these so you just put it into the hole of the other one and the third rectangle is going to sit slightly proud and you could adjust that one closer to the bit or further away from the bit depending on the thickness of the edge banding that you're using and this large base stays on as well except i'll flip it around so that the wider part of it is closer to the bit this is just going to make it more stable for demonstration purposes i'm using a small piece here so i'm just going to double stick tape it to my workbench but for a normal use you would clamp it in a normal way now to set it up you place the router on the work piece where the router bit is right over where the edge banding is and then you adjust these fences that are on this side so that the top two are in set a little bit but the bottom one over here is touching the edge of the plywood now you lower the bit the same way that you did before by using the piece of paper i now just run the router along the hardwood edge bending and it completely flushes it up against the plywood the next way is just an easy way to make repetitive slots or mortises or anything just by putting a stop like an edge guide on the edge for this you can use any one of these parts you can use these pieces you can use this one if you'd like you can also use these longer pieces and put those on the base like that and it will have a long reference for following along on a piece to show this though i'm just going to use one of the rectangles and put it in and just a note here you see that everything that i'm doing now i'm referencing off of the pieces that are on the jig so even if you messed up in making the jig like you didn't cut these pieces the right size or the slots are in the wrong places well it has to be sort of in the right place but they're a little bit off it doesn't matter because everything you're just setting it up based on the dimensions that you cut it so you're good like don't worry about it being a hundred percent perfect all right so now this piece underneath here is going to act as the edge guide to run along on my work piece so that works out really great but what if you want to use an edge guide for a piece that's longer and wider that's where these extension pieces come into play basically what you're trying to do here is you're trying to extend this base so these extension bars allows allow you to do that so you take one of the rectangle pieces and you put them underneath the extension pieces but then in order for it to be an edge guide you have to add another one of the rectangles so to do this process you just need two rectangles and the extension pieces now these could extend in and out and you can place them wherever you need to and now i'll add the two rectangle pieces underneath here now this base is extended awesome so for this cut it actually felt more comfortable to hold the router and not the handles and as far as the maximum width that you could do with this that's about 14 and a half inches from the edge i think that's more than enough the last feature is the circle cutting feature and i'm going to be able to do that by gluing in a pin into one of the holes in one of the rectangle pieces i'm using a brass pin here because that's what i have but any sort of pin that you can find would work fine now there's two ways that you're going to be able to cut a circle with this one with drilling a pilot hole into your work piece and one without i will show the first one first so first you just attach this onto the base you can also use the extension arms if you want a bigger circle but for now i'm just going to show you this one i'm also going to attach the wide base onto the other side for stability now if i want to make a four inch hole i would just line up a ruler with the edge of a router bit and adjust this side piece that has the pitted it to that measurement now you would drill a center pilot hole in your work piece put the brass pin in the hole turn on the router plunge it down and then route out your circle easy enough but what if you don't want to drill a hole in the center of your work piece that's what this center circle cutting jig base is for and that's why i drilled a hole in it you want to see how this works for this one i'll show you how to do it with the extension arms so that you can make larger circles with your trim router so you're going to need the piece that has the pin in it for the circle cutting and this basically acts as the base extension and it's also going to be the pivot point but you also still need to have this this other larger base on the other side now let's say i want to make a nine inch circle you could go bigger than that but let's just do nine inch for fun now i'll find the center of the board by going corner to corner and now i can use the crosshairs on this other piece and line it up on those lines to get the center of this board this crosshairs aren't going to be like the same shape as this if this is not a square but you can still see where the center is i'll put some double-sided tape onto it now the pin in here is going to fit into that hole and now just use it like a regular circle cutting jig so obviously i didn't use a piece that was big enough but you get the point this just pops right out and then you can remove this center piece and you don't have to drill a hole in the center of your workpiece so that's basically it i think i managed to pack a lot of features into this small little jig and i'm kind of excited about it just a couple of things to note after gluing in this brass pin it's not going to get in the way of any of the other features because of all the holes that were drilled in the center of all these pieces it just um locks right into there and it never will get in the way so that's it for this one thank you so much to hellofresh for sponsoring this video thank you guys so much for watching and i'll see you on the next one dinner is done the dishes are done man name that movie

Channel: 3x3Custom - Tamar

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Id: pGFfWyK1mqE

Length: 25min 24sec (1524 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 15 2021