Wood Router Tips and Tricks from Colin Knecht
Wood Router Tips and Tricks from Colin Knecht
Wood routers are a unique woodworking tool that can make very accurate and precise cuts making they ideal for furniture making and many other woodworking projects, and with the variety of wood router bits, cutting dados, rabbets and trimming veneers and even lumber with rough edges or even live edge wood can be trimmed straight and true on a wood router table.
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DIY Router Table Workflow Upgrades – https://youtu.be/UWWxNyR25vw
Wood Router Hacks – 5 Wood Router Workshop Tips and Tricks: https://youtu.be/uj5iRmgswF4
Getting MORE from Your Router Bits: https://youtu.be/V_eCa2U5y6w
Mini DIY Router Table for a Trim Router: https://youtu.be/HyUGlbj272Y
How to use a router tutorial: https://youtu.be/ZkerM8R8Pj8
Router Table Lift: https://youtu.be/oiBUMnAstj0
How to Make a Router Table Top: https://youtu.be/HvSwOoUpZvA
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wheew… that’s a big tip, colin… thanks…
Your are a master and a great work
Tnx for this video!
Had to watch the dado clip again to understand it. Awesome tip! Excellent explanation of which direction to approach the bit on a router table. The table saw comparison is a great one, not heard it before and easy to visualize. Thx!
thanks
Just the other day the router took a board and flew it across the room. Had no idea that I needed to feed it from the other side. The warnings say to always feed from the right! Now I know, and thanks!!
OK i have watched this video four times and I still don’t get why you need to use the β " measuring strip on the first pass in order to match the thickness of your workpiece when you cut a dado into the plywood… Why couldn’t have just used the temporary fence you have clamped as your guide on the first pass… I know i am missing something here, just can’t figure out what it is π€
use a drill bit…omg…perfect solution
Good router tips!
I use a router almost every day for door and lock installation. They are very powerful tools.
Wow! These tricks (= very useful knowledge) will save me from a lot of headaches and failed projects in the future!
I’ve already a very good Bosch router and the router bits to plane, and I’ll drop buying a planer for now, as the router can get the job done…. that is IF I can do my part, and together we’ll make perfect results! π
You donβt advocate using a miter slide but you do recommend using a loose board fence to launch boards trapped between the board and non bearing guided cutter????
Happy thanksgiving
Tq for sharing…Gbu.
That drill bit trick for measuring depth of plunge was great π
Thank you for the video!
thank you for all the great tips.
Love your CALM style Colin… You are a real source of inspiration to a newbie!!! I’m actually trying out Dados at the moment and your Dado tip is Right on Cue
Iβm still scratching my head on the dado cut. The spacing from the fence and how you used 2 different spacers, went whoosh! Right over my head.
Colin, why wouldnβt you just come in from the right on the router table and use the front of the bit? What is the benefit of what you showed?
Muy buen video!gracias.
Thanks for the great tips. I’m an old amateur woodworker. I know a lot about woodworking but you always come up with some great tips. Thank you.
Itβs always a great pleasure watching your videos Iβm always learning keep up the great work: God bless you π
Iβve learned a lot from your video. I like your emphasis on safety. Watched a few guys use all fingers. Very scary.
I just watched your other video on how to use a router table and I can say with absolute certainty…you need to re-make that video!! It’s nine years old and you can tell how far you’ve come with making videos since then! PLEASE re-make that video! It’s awkward, clumsy, has some REALLY BAD editing. So Colin, for the sake of humanity, PLEASE re-shoot that video!
thanks for the tips, very useful
Mr Colin I like the way you had set the depth of the Router
Great
I learned so much from this short clip !!! The visual using the tablesaw blade was VERY helpful. Thanks!
I dont understand why you are not using the built-in ruler of the router?
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Terrific video taught me a lot.
I really enjoy coming back to these tips and tricks videos. Thank you. πππ¦πΊ
Your use of the saw blade to show which direction the work and the router should go is the best explanation I’ve seen yet. Thanks for that.
We you a teacher at dinner point in your life? π
Great stuff Colin. Thank you very much!
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very nice wood router tips thanks
I do not at all understand two things about the end demo in this video:
1. WHY would you want to do the edge with the wood fence set up, as opposed to doing the same on your table saw? The table saw is faster to set up and faster to cut the wood (and safer, I think!).
2. Why did you repeatedly call this "planing", and say "if you don;t have a planer"? This looks like jointing, not planing.
Thanks for the tips, very helpfull!
What a perfect video to watch for me, for I just got a piece of wood thrown by my router because I inserted it from right to left. Kindly please do a detailed video on the safe and proper feeding of the material into the router. I just did my own DIY router table and so I am just learning how to do it safely. Thanks much.
Gold!
10 minutes 19 seconds your wood piece came away from its fence producing a divot in the workpiece. You then show a perfectly cut piece. My guess is that you had to reposition the fence and give it a second run just enough to scarf off the imperfection that would certainly present itself if you tried to laminate it to another piece of wood.
After reviewing the video further, at 10:27, just below your index finger there are two marks on the wood that were not on the piece you initially started cutting. And the wood grain appears to be very close but slightly different in that it appears to have moved to a slightly different position.
Definitely got some good tips. Thanks. But I’ve been an inspector for closing in on 40 years. I see the mistakes. The imperfections. The stripped screws on those TV shows. Naturally with the TV shows you have editing.
I will be setting up my wood shop hopefully this April. I have the lumber in the garage and driveway for an addition to my garage and a contractor already contracted to build the addition. So I’m looking for those smart tips that so many others have discovered over the years. I may even begin developing my own wood shop video collection.
Another fantastic tip, thanks Colin
Great video, very helpful!!!
Awesone! Thank you! π
So useful, as usual, Colin. Thank you very much.
This may be a dumb question, but is there a reason you don’t place the straight edge of the router base against the stop?
Great vid and great tips. You’re helping a cabinet maker on the other side of the pond who has only relatively recently started using routers and making the understanding of the jobs so much easier than figuring things out by experience. I thank you for that and will humbly follow your other router tips.
The trick at 2:38 is neat. But you need to find the strip of wood that has the same size as the router cut bit.
thank you,i know nothing about this,now learning from you
How long did it take you to trust your fence on your table saw? When I had a table saw it seemed like I was always double measuring the distance.