Routers - 7 Important Things You Should Know
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Woodworking Routers are so versatile but there’s lots of things to know for safe and effective operation. I’ve rounded up the 7 most important tips and tricks for routers and put them in a concise and easy to understand format. We talk about everything from bit direction, edge guides, jigs and buying advice. Leave your favorite router tip in the comments. Let me know what you’d like to see next. Thanks for watching! Please like, comment and subscribe. Cheers!
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Fantastic tips, Jonathan. These will definitely help when making a router purchase this year.
As a side note, I’ve just received my 6:1 ratio dovetail guide today. It came a lot faster than I thought too; less than two weeks from California to the UK. It’s to go with my 8:1 dovetail guide, my alignment board and my apron, which is fantastic by the way and superb value for money. Thanks so much and keep up the great work 👍
As a shop teacher, I teach my students, "You read left to right, you should router left to right" when the router is in front of the board with very few exceptions! I teach them to move fast and nibble across the grain and go slower routing with the grain, and other router techniques. Have never had an accident teaching 7th and 8th graders!
My life would be a lot different if someone had taught me woodworking in the 8th grade. That’s awesome. Thanks for the tips.
Teaching 7th and 8th graders how to use power tools is insanity and you deserve statues built in honor of what you do. Maybe an award from the president.
@@Leadership_matters Yes sir, I agree with this man. Gotta be a wooden statue. Mahogany maybe.
Has your injury ratio changed in the last 9 months? Usually Murphy's Law kicks in when you say something like that.
Any room for a 46 year old 8th grader? I just want to take you class... lol
Saving this video as it contains a wealth of great info! I absolutely LOVE the right hand thumb rule. That is going to save so much time trying to remember which way is the bit spinning and which way do I feed the board!
Great info, Jonathan~! I'm working on a display case project that requires some 1/4" stopped dado's on the inside faces and I was brainstorming the best way to accomplish it. Your dado/groove jig tip is just what I was looking for, so perfect timing. Thanks so much for this video~!
One of the few guys that provides valuable information without killing me with crappy music. Keep up the great work!
Nice to see recommendations according to personal experience rather than paid sponsors. We novices need help choosing our tools to avoid either buying too much or too little. Like most tools, routers are fun to use but a wrong choice can make their use either a pain or results not what we wanted. Your video is very informative and gave more info in it's short time than most give in days of videos. Also, even though you have a nice setup, it is not so overwhelming (big) that I turn it off out of frustration because I only have (most have less) a single garage size area. Most tubers don't realize their pole barn size shop is a turnoff, not a turn on. Thanks for keeping it real and informative and not a "look at what I got" video!.
Best advice from the man in the know. Thanks for sharing the great video, Johnathan. I hope you and you're family are doing well.
Beginner woodworking enthusiast here.
Just want to say thank you. This was really very helpful.
This video has answered so many questions that have kept me from using my router. Many thanks for your help.
I really love my routers and I really thought I knew how they worked - this video has been a game changer for me! Thanks a million!!
Haven't watched all your videos (yet) but already I can tell that you are the best teacher for newbies like myself, great tips and amazing explanation skills, overall high quality, friendly, no-nonsense knowledge transfer, as well as top notch video production...THANKS
Paul sellers and Matt Estlea are great as well.
What a simple and intuitive way to think of router bit rotation. Thank you
I'm used to larger, corded routers czcams.com/users/postUgkxfQ5_mgwq6PcudJvAH25t-I4D-3cTPz4z so this was a different experience for me. Basically, this is an incredibly sweet machine, fits well in the hand, etc. It has slightly less power than I'm used to, but that's understandable. Maneuvering freehand takes some practice. These days, it's especially nice to be able to avoid power cords. This is above the level of a hobbyist but below a pro level.
The single most important thing a person can do before using a router is to watch this video! 😎
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That's true
I disagree. I think the most important thing to do in almost every case is to stroke the hog.
" you are either living in post nut clarity or in pre nut delusional".
Don't love your life in delusion. One love
Great info and very timely--only done a little router work so far but have a bunch coming up and this answered a few questions I had. Cheers and keep the vids coming!
I love my flush cut bit from Bits and Bits. Bought it two years ago at your recommendation and It’s still going strong.
I’ve learned so much from this guy. Everything is clear and easy to understand! Thank you!
The way you explain is SOOO awesome! Thanks for that!
Love the hand trick! I always have to stop and think about it for a minute.
Honestly, I'm not cheap; just thrifty. My Scot heritage comes through at every opportunity. For 35 years of occasional router use I kept telling myself that high speed steel was good enough for what I did with a router. Wood got more expensive and I wanted better quality outcomes. Thanks to you and others like you, my standards are better these days and I don't dare risk $7.00 or more per board foot lumber on anything less than Freud or Whiteside bits and the Bits&Bits coating ROCK. I watch my expenses by not trashing nice wood. Good tools are less expensive than damaged raw materials in the long run.
Physics aside, that was so well explained! Complete with the memory aides. Very well done! Thank you.
I wish I would have found this video sooner, after years of difficulty with performing routing. Have greatly improved my woodworking. Thank you
I bought my first circular saw, impact drill and drill driver. Next is my router. I'm a newbie to tools and wood work. This is informative. You've earned my subscription.
Quite a Bit of great information in this vid. A nice deep plunge into the topic. My head is spinning with all the lessons.
Always a great video to watch over and over again and again. I have quite a collection of routers and 1/2” and 1/4” bits. So I enjoy watching to gain more knowledge and techniques to improve my skills.
I am so glad i found your channel. Love the way you explain and teach for newbies like myself. Thanks!
I have 3 now. Always learning new thing and buying more for them. I need a router table now.
Good work.
Great overview and advice for router users. Very clear explanations. Thanks for sharing 👍
New here , getting into woodworking at age 22-23 love the content and advice. Please keep up the knowledge sharing
A truly excellent video
One of the best router videos I've watched 👌
Really informative and I've been a carpenter for nearly 25 years
That homemade router guide is perfect for a project I am just starting. Thanks!
Super fantastic and thorough video, Jonathan! Well done sir!
Fantastic tips, Jonathan! Thanks a LOT! 😃
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
My first table saw was Craftsman contractor saw. I purchased a cast iron extension wing for it which came with a router plate and fence. I loved it. Much better than the small working surface available on most router tables. Years later I graduated to a cabinet saw with the right wing incorporating a router mount. With my offcut extension table, I have a router table with sixteen square feet of work area. Most, if not all, of the cuts in this video can be done better and more safely using a table, rather than a handheld router. I know, like me at first, a lot of folks have a limited budget but, it is something to keep in mind for the future.
I will not have a saw without this provision.
The plunge feature brilliant explanation,very helpful. Thank you.
Great video as always, and amen on spending more for better bits. I learned my lesson today routing a juice groove. I had been using a cheapo core box bit from an Amazon kit and was getting burning every time that then had to be painstakingly sanded off. On a whim a few days ago, I figured I'd try and buy a Whiteside bit instead. I did a large board today without a single burn mark through maple, walnut, cherry, and mahogany.
Cheers!
Yes, Amazon has probably much more garbage than good items. They are inundated with Chinese junk. That is not saying that they don't have SOME good products, but the majority is just junk! YMMV.
Thanks so much for this video. I just bought my first router with table. This video gave me so much info. Thanks again!
Thanks man! Especially like the dive into the plunge base.
Love that video instruction. So useful!!! Even I an Russian I understood everything so clearly. Thanks buddy!!!
Thank you a whole bunch for this fantastic video. You are a first rate teacher!
Great info video , to the point, no crazy music , your a wood shop teacher . Thanks from Maine
Thank you, I brought a plunge router about 4 weeks ago and it's just been sitting there because I had no idea how to use it properly and safely. I'm pretty savvy but been super intimidated to use it. Been sanding round overs and the like by hand like a Muppet. This video really helped cheers.
I just baught my first router a dewalt and this was very helpful thank you for making it
I’ve never used my plunge base. Thanks so much for this!
Very helpful. I don't know why the router has been so intimidating but I finally picked one up last year. I've only used it a couple of times but I plan to remedy that.
Aha! The right hand rule. Not just for electricity and magnetic fields. Thanks for the video!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge! Your way of explaining is really helpful.
Thanks for the explanation. Very informative and it make sense. I cant wait to try using my router as a newbie in woodworking.
Newborn DIY'er here. These 101 type vids are priceless, and I'll be seeing what I can get from your links and store to support you (when I know what I actually need).
Excellent hints that could save time and life.
Im new to woodworking and this was such a helpful video! Thanks so much!
Great breakdown of the different functions and routers. very informative.
Excellent video. Very informative. Nicely done and good sense of humor to top it off…Thank you
I got that Ultimate trim bit after watching your super slow motion video and it is really an amazing bit.
Nice fixes. Simple and safe. Screwed up my first brass bushing due to not having a centered face plate.
Loving your right hand rule, because being unsure of the correct direction is always a thing unless it's on the table, from the right.
For handheld/plunge routing, I made my own mnemonic: CIAO. Clockwise Inside, Anticlockwise Outside. Get it wrong and you can say "ciao" to your work. I hope this helps someone.
Thank you so much. That was my first lesson on routers. I need more data.
Great video! That simple jig with ca glue will get used tomorrow!
Really enjoyed the depth stop explanation 🔥🙏🏻
They were great tips so thank you so much as a beginner I need all the help I can get
Another winner Jonathan. 👊🏻 Thank you for some great tips. Allan
Great information in a very way to understand. Thanks for sharing your expertise.
This link should be printed on all future router instruction manuals.
I just want to say that you solved a problem I have. I am making a sheet pan drawer with 1/4" dividers in it. So, I need to route groves into the drawer. But, I did not know how I was going to get an accurate cut for the center groves. In comes the jig you showed how to make. Thank you. Also, I am going to be adding the pice to my wouter guide as well because I ran into that issue, too. Thank you for your great advice! I love your content! And look forward to buying one of your aprons as soon as I can afford the extra expense!
Yes!!! I have been waiting for this video! I can relate to the right hand rule, and sometimes end up doing a climb cut. Routers kinda scare me.
As an Electrical Engineer for more than three decades, I always used the right hand trick for router applications too - it was borrowed from my Electromag classes. Despite I always used it I never considerred it was important also for non Electrical Engineers. Congrats to bring that to all.
Woah your last name is my first name
Never in my life have I met another Cristo
Jonathan somewhere out there a shop teacher is very proud. God bless
Excellent video!! Thanks from London England 👍😎🏴
Nice video as usual man. Appreciate all the great info that you share
Great tips, thanks for posting.
Thumbs up!
great advice, i got my "blem" stop the other day, i exected something that had a very noticeable blem, What i got was a slall mrk on the front and it is even viewable when in use. thanks much.
I like your "right hand trick". Great tips.
Good video.
Router table = right to left
Router= left to right
One thing I might add is use dust collection whenever possible. I believe it is Oneida who makes a hood to hook up to a vacuum. It will also help cool the bit. Just make sure you use a very flexible hose and make sure you can control the router safely with the vac hose connected.
Ron
Great video as usual! Those were some really good tips. I looooove the dado jig. I'll have to make some. That's just genius.
I couldn't agree more about bit quality. I started out with a cheap set and followed advice you gave in an earlier video about buying the individual bits you need and slowly building you collection. I think it's best to get what you need instead of buying a set and ending up with a bunch of things you don't and maybe won't use. 3/4 of the set I bought I've never chucked up so YMMV.
I initially bought a couple of loose bits after spending quite a bit of time researching, but found they didn't do exactly what I'd expected. So then I bought a decent sized set which has allowed me to experiment. It also means that when I am busy doing something on a Saturday afternoon I don't find myself needing another bit I don't have which means waiting until the following weekend to go shopping. And since the cost per bit in the set is much lower than buying the same brand separately even if I only ever use half of them regularly it won't have cost me more.
Just bought the corded Mikita as it was better for my budget. I’ve been searching for decent videos of how to use this tool. The content within this presentation in my opinion was excellent. It gave me a great idea where to start. I have to cut some rebates and couldn’t get my head round how to go about it. Well done and thank you.
A lot of great information, as usual. Thanks.
Great content learn a few things that will simplify my router work thanks!
Great video and information.
In another video, unfortunately forget which channel, they mentioned another benefit to bushings. Template bits have bearings at the end or base of the bit, which requires full bit extension or full depth cuts of the work piece. With bushings being independent of the bit, you can make template cuts at any depth.
Thank you for these tips Jonathan
Great video! Thank you!
Such great information! Thank you so much
It make a sense I give thanks for sharing you ideas
Like the thumb up down trick. Thanks.
holy crap! you make it so easy and understandable. thanks eh!
Very informative and very clearly and interestingly put across.
Just about to buy my first router. Your video is my first. Great explanation. Gonna have to subscribe now. Thanks
Absolutely genius idea for a jig, bro 👌
Great video, your concept on the direction of the bit, never looked at it that way about the right hand grip. I was taught, look at the direction of the bit itself, you want it to always pull the material "into" the router or fence if a router table.
Now, I do have to disagree about the auxiliary fence, reason is, chips have to go somewhere and they don't all drop straight down. Perfect example of this is, do a dado with a handheld then do one on a router table, see which has a better chip clearing. I prefer to have that opening for this reason only. The fence on your router table isn't solid like a TS fence is, again, chips have to go somewhere plus, it allows airflow to help keep the bit cool. Overheat a bit and they'll snap on you, can cause a very serious injury, 30k rpms and a small projectile... not fun.
One thing I was taught about setting depth, use brass bars in aid to set your depth and small bites. I've seen many bits break because some people believe, it will just push through, they don't, they'll break. Great video, cheers :)
Great advices, thanks buddy!
very good explanation easy to follow thx for the lesson
So informative, many thanks!
Thankyou for this presentation . . . Chris . . . Norwich, England
Excellent tips. Thanks.
I just broke a bit and it flew away it was so scary.
Went back home, and got this video as a recommendation, I just learned about the 1/4 inch depth passes, this would have probably saved me the scare!
You explain things very well sir
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Funniest thing I've read in a while
„Our beards locked like velcro“. That part had me laughing out loud 😂
Such a cool video, thank you for sharing
Great video. Gave me a little more confidence to try more with the router. I'm laboring over 3/4" wide dado grooves right now and not sure how I want to do the jig.. I like simple so may try your 90 degree technique
Great video!! To comment on the “size matters” piece, I don’t have a band saw to remove material, I use a guide bushing for that.