hi, my name is kevin, and on behalf of expertvillage, i'm going to show you how to use a router as a straight lining mechanism. ifyou're ever out on a job site, and you don't have a table saw, or a really big radial armsaw to your disposal and you need to make a cut this like and a skill saw is going tobe too messy of a job, what you can do is use a router to do it. or, if your machinesare not working for whatever reason, you only
woodworking router maintenance, have a router, what you can do is you takea straight edge like this, we've jointed this, we have a nice straight edge, and we're goingto clamp this down and use it as a guide for the router. so what we need to do is findout from the edge of this, which the base will be running off of, to the outside, whatthe distance is. so, it is 2 3/4", so what
we need to do is if we want to take off a16th is do 2 11/16ths, just shy of 2 3/4 that we measure over on both sides, clamp thisdown, and then run it. so we have our two marks, so we position the straight edge acrossboth of them, clamp it down here very, very tight, and the same over on this side. andnow we'll take the router, and double check it, and it looks like it will just be cuttinginto the piece. so now what you do is you take this, you take the piece and run it allthe way across. it will give you a nice straight edge, parallel to the one that's already therenow, and perfectly perpendicular to both sides, because we measured the same distance on bothsides.
