6step Router Plate Installation ShopNotes （6步路由器ShopNotes板安装）.pdf

6-step Router Plate Installation The biggest challenge to making any router tabletop Locate Guide Strips. After making the guide strips, is cutting an opening for the insert plate so that it fi ts you’re ready to locate the opening. To do this, use perfectly. To answer that challenge when it came to double-sided tape to position one of the guide strips building the ultimate router table, I used a foolproof so it’s parallel with one edge of where you’d like the method that doesn’t require any tedious measuring plate located. Then use the insert plate to locate the or layout. Just a few common shop tools. The nice other strips, as shown in Step 1. thing about this method is you can use it to create an Cut Opening. Once you have the guide strips opening for any size or type of plate. located, you’re ready to cut the opening by follow- Template Guide Strips. This method works ing Steps 2 through 5. With the opening complete, all because you use the actual plate as a template for that’s left to do to complete the installation is mount positioning a set of strips that guide a pattern bit the router to the insert plate. Most insert plates are when you’re cutting the opening. Note: Most pattern predrilled to match your router. If your plate isn’t bits will require 1-thick strips. drilled, just take a look at Step 6.