How To Build A Circle Cutting Jig For Your Router

26 Mar, 2021

Oct 17 2017 You can easily cut perfect circles for your next woodworking project using a router attached to a circle cutting jig. Most wood routers will adapt to this jig no matter whether the.

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Remember that youre routing out a groove and that you must take the width of the bit into account if you need an exact size.

How to build a circle cutting jig for your router. Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. Our router circle jig is now ready to use. Use a pencil to mark the screw mounting holes the center hole and trace around the outside diameter.

About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy. Then we slide the threaded rod through the opening of the center rotation point. In this video I make a circle jig for a router from the design and drawings of David Cooksey.

May 09 2019 Chances are you already have most of the materials you need to make a circle-cutting jig for your router and a straight bit. Find the center of your work piece. I drilled a 58 hole in the plywood of the jig for it to fit in.

Apr 06 2020 On the threaded rod we first place a nut followed by a washer. The main part of the jig is made from 14 plywood. Apr 22 2020 There are many pre-made circle cutting jigs available on the market but they are fairly expensive and many of them dont have a very large maximum radius.

For most circle cutting the bit used would be 12 diameter or less so I chose a guide bushing that has an outside diameter of 58. The circle jig acts as a compass guid. You could rough out the circle with a jig saw machine then use a template and a flush-trim bit on your mini router machine to clean it up.

Open the knob on the jig and set your radius by sliding it open or closed to your desired length. Drill a small pilot hole and fit the point of the jig in it. To use the circle jig.

Remove the baseplate from your router and position it centered on the line you drew and 12. Then you just need a scrap of wood 14. An aluminum ruler at its heart simplifies the set up for creating accurate circles.

Draw a line down the center of the base lengthwise and make marks on this line 12. A trim router is a very useful and a handy tool in the workshop and a circle cutting jig is one of the bas. Away from one end of the base.

Apr 04 2021 In this video I build a router circle cutting jig. Plexiglass and a few pieces of common hardware. After drilling the hole I cut a 38 slot down the middle and trimmed the base to size.

Hardboard a piece of 18. To fix the threaded rod on the center point we place a washer on the outside again followed by a nut.

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