hi, my name is kevin, and on behalf of expertvillage, i'm going to talk to you about template and duplicate routing. what that means iswhen you have to make a lot of similar pieces that are generally a complex shape, you wantto make one piece, get it to the exact size you want it, and then take that and use itas a template for all the other pieces. so, for instance, on this piece here, that wasoriginally part of a display case, that there
router woodworking how to use, were going to be five of them, we got theone piece to the size that we wanted it, and then what you do from there is you're goingto use this as your template with a flush trim bit to do all the other pieces. so you'lllay this piece down on your other pieces, trace it out, waste away as much as you canwith a band saw or a jigsaw that can get into
all these small areas and get it as closeas you can, and from there you're going to take the router and run the bearing on thisand let the cutter head cut the piece to this exact size. so that from piece to piece, fromdisplay case to display case, or whatever you're building, all the pieces will be exactlythe same, and fit together on any other pieces that you're going to be fitting them to, orjust to achieve the exact same look. we have our template, and we've got our piece thatwe're going to duplicate to it. we've got the template on the bottom so we have a bottombearing bit here. this bearing is going to ride along the bottom piece, and this cutterhead right here is going to cut this top piece to the exact shape. we've already rough-cuttedout on the band saw, so we've wasted away
most of that material, so we just have a littlebit to take off. and so we're going to go around and cut all this out, and get it toour exact shape of this. we're not going to do the entire piece because of the time, butyou'll get the idea that you just rough cut it out, put it on here, and then just followit around with the router. same process whether you're doing just this little bit or the entirepiece.
