How To Level A Piece Of Wood With A Router
You can use this tool to decorate the edges or surfaces of a piece of wood or you can cut a chase into the side of a piece of wood to hide electrical cables or pipes.
How to level a piece of wood with a router. Originally routers were used for their decorative uses. Keep in mind that this isnt your final length. Youre just removing any messy wood and getting to a manageable length.
Lets say that you got lucky for the sake of argument and you have used your new router to do cut a piece of wood. 3 Holding the routers base plate flat on the work piece the entire time run the router along the edge of the board a couple times until it no longer removes any material. That means the bushing is riding along your bench and the edge of the work piece is now flush with that surface.
If you look at the edges of the cutthe places where the bit made contact with the woodyou may see a host of different things that the wood is telling you. I then attached the 7 pieces of 16 with wood glue and 1-14 pocket screws. Always make shallow test cuts to determine a safe feed rate.
4 Now this board is ready to be safely and. Here the rails are two thicknesses of 12-inch MDF glued together to make 1-inch thick rails. This shopmade router jig designed by NBC sitcom star Nick Offerman levels thick slabs to create Nakashima-style tabletops and other.
In this Wood Tips video Ed Pirnik demonstrates a variety of ways to hold workpieces securely while routing. Even More Wood Tips Router Tricks. Almost always this needs to be built to match the piece or pieces of wood that you wish to surface.
The rails can be made from 26 construction-grade lumber. Now that you know how to level a wood slab and you know that flattening wood slabs with a router is not as hard as it might seem you might want to explore the process of gluing up big slabs. Step 2 No Flex.