Tools & Materials
How to Hold Work for Routing
Learn a variety of ways to secure your workpieces for safer handheld routing
Jul 15, 2014
When it comes to routing, the ability to secure your workpiece is the key to safety and accuracy. But how do you clamp a workpiece while leaving a top or edge unobstructed for your router’s path of travel? The fact is, there are an endless variety of ways to sock down workpieces on a benchtop—from benchdogs and bench vises, to clever tricks involving tape, handscrews, and conventional clamps.
In this Wood Tips video, Ed Pirnik demonstrates a variety of ways to hold workpieces securely while routing.
Even More Wood Tips Router Tricks:
Here’s a great link to Ed’s now-famous Not So Big Workbench. The plans can be found here.
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Comments
How do remove the carpet tape after you are done routing?
Even though that router has a fence on it, it's a very bad idea to get in the habit of setting the router down with the bit down instead of on it's side. You may just automatically do that without the fence in place
It would be nice if the video editors could reduce the volume level a lot when power tools turn on. We all know how loud a router is...
user-441604- I find that using a good grade of packing tape applied to the carpet tape will generally remove the carpet tape, It may take a couple of tries, but I have always been successful. Scrapping and using solvents is damaging and frustrating...........
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