Router Table Insert Plate Template
Use this template and a pattern router bit to rout a perfectly sized 9 14 x 11 34 opening for any of the woodpeckers router plates and lifts in your custom router tablefeatures.
Router table insert plate template. Useable for at least a dozen openings. Learn an easy way to cut out a spot for your router plate to sit down into your router table. Items and tools needed. Then move the plate out of the way and freehand route the entirety of the plate outline.
Optional router plate leveling and locking hardware pack sold separately. Cnc machined from 34 mdf for a perfectly smooth bearing surface and large enough for clamps. To build a good insert template for your router table all you need is a bit of scrap wood and some auto body filler. Next drill and countersink the pilot holes in the base plate for the mounting screws.
I hope you enjoy my video and feel. Bore a hole at least 14 bigger than the cutter head on your router bit. Sold separately below we recommend this 132 thick stainless steel ring to be used for any router table top with at least a 716 deep router plate rabbet depth. This article will show you my approach to doing this with a router.
Get the router out and set the foot plate on this plate then adjust the depth of cut to just touch the table top in other words a straight cut bit extended out the exact same amount as the thickness of this plate. This gives enough clearance for the bit to spin freely. Instructions are permanently affixed to the template. The best way to cut an insert opening in a router table is by guiding your router with a flush trim bit against a template made for the insert plate.
This is a simple method that is very effective and works great. Woodpeckers router table insert installation template. Templates are made of 12 mdf material. Or router bit.
With this template and a template router bit one with a bearing on the shank anyone can rout out a perfectly sized 9 14 x 11 34 opening. Get a custom fit for your router table plate with this easy to use template. The infinity tools steel insert ring item rtt irs sits under your router plate or router lift to prevent wear in the router table top from the adjustment screws. Clamp the base plate to the drill press table to make sure it doesnt go flying across the room.