How To Level A Piece Of Wood With A Router
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.
How to level a piece of wood with a router. There is also a depth stop which is a vital piece of equipment with a router plane for example when planing hinge mortices or grooves. A router is placed inside a sled that rides along two parallel rails that are attached to the sides of the bench. This will be a useful skill if you want to build a waterfall table which is also a project that has grown in popularity in recent years.
Step 2 No Flex. Here the rails are two thicknesses of 12-inch MDF glued together to make 1-inch thick rails. The router sled is very easy to make from scrap 34 plywood.
In some cases long strips of MDF on edge or even angle Iron can be used. That means the bushing is riding along your bench and the edge of the work piece is now flush with that surface. 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.
By Nick Offerman 222NovDec 2011 Issue. The rails can be made from 26 construction-grade lumber. CUT THE BOARD TO ROUGH DIMENSIONS.
If the cut is being made along the grain it should be effortless and smooth. The final piece of the sled is the router itself. Keep in mind that this isnt your final length.
In this Wood Tips video Ed Pirnik demonstrates a variety of ways to hold workpieces securely while routing. A cast iron Stanley 71 is 7 12 wide and this wooden router plane is 6 14 160mm wide. Then use a Cross Cut panel saw to cut your rough board to rough length across the grain.