Router 101: Router basics for absolute, total beginning woodworkers.
Router 101: Router basics for absolute, total beginning woodworkers.
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An introduction to the woodworking router. The router is probably the second most important power tool for a woodworking shop. In this video, I’ll go over the basics and get you up to speed quickly. After watching this video, see part 2: Your first router project: http://youtu.be/RmyytuR-iVE
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Damn Steve you were wild back in the day
Dado, Chamfer, profile, bevel, rabbet, round over, glue joint, dove tail, vee, etc. You can do it all with a router.
Could you be more obnoxious with your presentation?
Very Good demonstration 👍
Sorry man i couldn’t focus on the video.. I just kept thinking you look familiar.. I think you look part Hugh Laurie and part John Malkovich..
Good to see YouTube is listening tentatively to my personal conversation.
I hope he knows that his videos 10 years later are helping out hundreds of highschool construction and wood working classes everywhere 🙂
If you’re a beginner like me, this guy is by far the best to learn from. There are lots of good woodworkers on YouTube, but no one focuses on beginners like Ramsey. I’m just finishing his Weekend Woodworker course. Eight weeks ago I had never in my life cut a piece of wood with a power tool. Now I’m making furniture that we’re actually using….. 100% thanks to Steve Ramsey.
Wow! No fuss, no muss! Great video! I’ve never used a router and got one from a friend who wasn’t using it anymore. I started making clocks and I think this will help with that, aside from my "dremel" tool.
Thanks!
How do you get a router bit to do edge work with a 2 x 8 board that will be a table top? Thanks
As always, !!Great tutorials and videos!!
I just bought a router and a table just like that… but I don’t know what are for, or how to set the silver rings with orange measurements that the Router as on it, maybe you can give me a tip?… Thanks and greetings from Mexico.
Dint see the rooter work
Excellent video!
Watching this for the first time 10 years after it was published and it’s still super helpful.
Thank you soo much. I just bought a used router the previous owner built a table and you video was very helpful. I enjoyed watching your video
good info, bad definition! Thanks anyway!!!
Great as always Steve, but im glad you have adapted to the way YouTube is nowadays. I’ll keep watching as long as you keep making. Loving the podcasts! Keep it up!
At 7:06 he glazes over 20 minutes of trying to line up the holes and screwing the router into the table while swearing non-stop.
hey man, thanks for your videos.
Lol, vintage Steve comes at you at a million miles per hour
so glad that Steve stopped consuming so many Monster drinks. That shit is bad for you.
Was on the fence about a router, now I must get one. Thanks!
I didn’t know Hugh Laurie gave up on his medical profession to pursue woodworking.
10 years ago wow
What size shank does that router use?
Perfect explanation as far as I am concerned. Thanks for this video
At 3:30 That template guide does it screws on to the router or base plate?
A little too in my face, sorry lol
great video!
Steve! Looks like 10 years ago you had 1% Oscar the Grouch DNA 😂
Your channel is the best
Oh, my! Your editing and presentation skills have much improved since this video. A little hard to watch.
This was great. Really helped more than the others I’ve seen that glossed over the detail. I’d like to know more about clamping and stabilising the work piece when you’re without a router table
Switch to decaf, dude.
Wow! This is exactly what I needed to start! No BS, covers everything…great! Thanks.
Take a shot every time he says router.
I always appreciate your videos Steve, thank you for making woodworking approachable. Also, really cool to see an early video compared to where you are now
my router bit is bit tilted. When I drill a hole, its not coming straight down. how to correct the bit angle perpendicular to routing surface? I am using Bosche GOF130
Amen. Finally something for people who know nothing about woodworking, with no assumed knowledge. Thank you 🙏
Great vid! 👍👍👍
Lol Steve in this one reminds me of that crazy guy who wore the Question mark ? suit in all those wacky commercials in the 90s, talking about free money or something 😂💕👍
Thanks. Very helpful.
Dang, no answer back 🙁
Thanks that was really helpful
Love this old video but it triggered my ADHD LOL 😆
thanks for the great intro video and lecture Steve! Good to hear that a hand router can be installed on a router table. I had the wrong impression that a router table needs a different kind of router. But as a beginner, I’d like to learn how to do that. Do you have a video on that?
Not a fan of the in your face style. Distracts from the point.
I would love a tutorial on clamping wood for different operations, not all of us have big tables and pro clamps, I would love to know what are the best clamps to buy etc, at least this part for me is the most challenging, maybe others are the same?
Steve – This is great! I’ve been watching a bunch of your newer videos, 2019 and later and you definitely have calmed down a bit and you definitely do fewer closeups. Your energy is great, I’d give you an 11 out of 10 in this video. Did you switch to decaf? Lol. One question – I bought a Kobalt router & table combo from Lowe’s – great price, $130. I’m planning on using the router to create mortises for hinges and the depth adjustment is a bit of a mystery. It also seems to have 2-3 different ways of locking/setting the height. The controls on it are okay, but not super smooth. I’m wondering if it might be better to take it back and get a Bosch router. Any thoughts on Kobalt, Bosch or other routers would be very helpful.
Steve did a few lines of blow before making this video.
Steve has really calmed down over the years😂😂😂