hi, my name is kevin and on behalf of expertvillage, i'm going to show you how to make a circle cutting gig for a router. a circlecutting is exactly what it sound like. it is a gig that you build for your router. thatyou can use to cut circles with. and that can be a template for something or if youhave a round table top that you have rough cut and you want to put a finished edge onit. you want to do it with a router. you can
routers for woodworking, do it with that. you can also use it to cuthalf circles, for gigs, or just templates. it is a pretty versatile thing. its reallyeasy to make, and i am going to show you how to do that right now. what you do is takeyour router. get yourself a board. this would be a small circle, but get yourself a boardabout a little bit bigger than the base and
drill a hole through it big enough for mostbits to fit through. this is a three quarter inch hole. it will fit almost all bits. youwant to put a straight bit on there. and what you want to do is fix the router base to theactual piece. you can do this in a number of different ways. you can mortise down intoit, or you can screw some holes through your base where you can take screws and screw rightinto your base. which is a really good thing to do. once this router base is permanentlyattached onto this piece. what you do on this end, is you put a screw over here at thisend of the base, and screw through to the piece your going to be working on. if youhave a specific size circle what you can do is flip it over where that screw hole is.you measure from the screw hole over to the
hole to the edge of the bit. that will tellyou what half the distance of the circle is going to be. so if you want a six foot circle.you are going to need to measure three feet from the edge of the router bit to where thatscrew is. because what is going to happen. is when you run this. you turn on your router.you drop your bit down in there. it is going to pivot off this arm right here. so it willmake a perfect circle, because it will be pivoting from this one point over here, andit will give you a perfect circle every time. or half circle if that is all you need. butyeah you fix it right here and measure to the edge that will give you half the distanceof what ever circle you are about to cut.
