Hello Everyone I'm Colin Knecht and Today I'm going to show you how to Make a mini Router table for your trim Router
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A
Trim Router, Or Hand Router as it's often Called as
Well it's just a small
Little Router This One Happens to be About a quarter of a Horse and They're Designed to be able to be used by Hand
But There's no Reason that you Can't install Them in A little
Router Table and That's Exactly what I'm going to do Today I'm going to Make mine With
Folding Legs so that I can put it Underneath the Bench when I'm not using it
The First Thing I need to do is to cut out a hole in the Top here
Here's the Base that I'm working With and i'm using
MDF I'Ve Made mine 17 inches Long by 12 inches wide but you could Make it any Size you
now what I need to do is cut out a hole in Here and Because I have A round
Base on my Router my Cutout is going to be Slightly rounded on the Edges and I'm going to leave it that Way
Now when I get started I'm going to be doing what they Call a plunge cut so i will be Going in Like that
Then I'm going to Rotate Around I have my dust
Collector Here so it's going to be a little bit Noisy but it Should pick up most of the Dust that we have and I
Just Made This Little Frame ahead of Time so that I make a nice Square Point
There's my Routed out
Center what I need to do now is get the Center part out of here so that I can leave a lip Around Here
you
While the glue on that Base Is
Hardening up what I need to do now is to cut the legs and
Because I want the legs to sit it a little bit of an Angle and I've Worked it out to
About Twelve and A half Degrees I need to put a little bit of an Angle on the
Top and on the Bottom so i'm going to go ahead and do that right now
All Right that's Actually going to sit like that and that, One's Going to sit Like that
Alright Now the next Thing I need to do before I do Anything
The Next Thing I'll be doing is Putting some
Hinges in There so that that will fall Down but I'm going to drill some holes in Here For a couple of Reasons
The Main Reason Is to so that I can use have something to clamp it Down
Because This is going to be pretty Small and Light Easy to move Around so it's going to want to be Clamped Down to the
Workbench at some Point
Well There's Those legs Done and that Is?
That Is a Handy A?
Handy Little Rig Look at that it's Really
Steady Now But but Looking you could even Take that and
Clamp that now You could use this as the Top and Clamp that to the table and Even
More versatile Way of making this Nice and Steady
Unfortunately My trim Router Only Comes With A round base some of them come with Square
Some of Them come With Both but This
One doesn't and i I don't even Know if There's an Option for this one But that doesn't Matter because what I did
Here was cut a square hole Which of Course I need to do because
I want the trim Router it's going to want to sit in Here but There's
Nothing to Hold that so I need to Make Another Plate for it so that's why, I made this Square and that's why?
There's The Little Lip on There what I need to do now is to take this raw
Plastic That I used as A template guide
So that i didn't go too much Deeper than this it's a little bit Below but I wanted to do that so that I can
put Screws in Here so that I can, Make this sit even I
Found that This blade wants to be a little bit higher Than the material and you can See I've Added about two inches
That Should Work and Give me a good cut
There You go that's Perfect Goes to all Sides
Alright Now We need to drill some holes
In There so I need to take the plate off of Here and use it as A measurement for that what I'm going to
Do Now is tell you what I'm going to do and then I'm going to do it off Camera Because
It's Fiddly Little Work and it's very Hard to See on Camera
This Plate Has some recesses for the heads of the Screws to go in so that it sits flat
Against that Material that it's routing what I need to do with this Plate Is Make some holes and I'm going to drill some Pilot
Holes Through each One of them then I'm going to use my Forstner bit and Make that Same Little
Recess that it's going to Take in There and then I'll Make the hole Just a little bit Bigger so that it will Accommodate
The Size of the Screw and Then I'm going to use another Forstner bit to cut a hole in the Center I
I'm not sure if It'll Work but it looks like it will
Hit all the holes Drilled
Okay, Let's bring the table over
Well I hope that Router you Could put it Underneath but it
Just doesn't fit so I've Had to feed the the Cord Down Through and
It Fits in There Just Perfectly and it's very Close
Well Now now it's time, We get to try out all our Hard Work Here and you know this Really
Doesn't Take All that Long to Make I'm Pretty happy with This
You Can See that I'Ve Got it Clamped to the Workshop Bench and it's Really Nice and Steady Here I'm Really
Happy With that the other Thing that I did I just made a quick Fence and you know you don't need A
Sophisticated Fence for A Router as long as it's straight across The front and
Flat to the table I've Just got it Clamped and that's all that you need
The Only Thing that I've need to Make Sure Because this bear Or this bit that I'm using has a bearing on it I need
To Do what We call isolate that bearing and what it means is I need to Make that bearing even With the fence
Straight Across so that When I run Wood Through it it's not going to bump out when it hits the the bearing
So i'm Already to do I've Already set this Thing up
Let's run some Wood Through and See what it does
What a perfect way to round over Boards if that's what you're Doing?
All Sorts of Different Things you can do Anything With This little Router that you Can with A big Router
As long as it Takes This Little bit You Gather, We Remember This is only a quarter Horse so it's not going to do some
Big Things like A big Router is going to do it's more for Trimming Edges and Things like that or Maybe Doing some Banding but
What a great Little Addition and One More Thing that, we Can Use our Little trim Router for?
Well That Concludes my Video on making the Mini Router Table and you know There's Lots of Different Ways to Make this less
Complicated More Complicated I like This One Because it Folds Up it's Easy to Use and it Gives
All of The Full Features that you Would get in A
Full-Sized Router Table but Without the Same Sort of power so if This is something you might like
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