Using your router to position your shelves.
September 15, 2009 by admin
Filed under Router Tips
Yes the router is the most versatile power tool in the workshop and if you add guides you have an amazing combination.
Today’s tip is about drilling holes with the router to set the adjustable shelf rests in place. It is important that all four rows of holes are in the same in position according to each of the corners. In order to get the shelves to match and sit level we use a pattern a guide and the router to drill the holes correctly. Watch this router tip to see how it’s done.
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http://www.routerworkshop.net/freecontents/Routertips/adjustableshelves.flv
Do not understand what info required in Website field above. The tip on shelf holes is unnecessary. If you have the pattern even a dunce like me would know how to process this tip. The tip should be on making the pattern.
Comments from Rick below,
Isn’t is always simple once you have seen the concept. And as Thomas Edison has said “The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”
Trust me guys the making of the pattern is as easy as the use of it. Here is a hint: To make the pattern just think of a way to duplicate the drilling position of a 1″ forstner bit?
How to make this jig and many more is in the making. We are creating our video e-course on Jigs and Fixtures coming early next year. This pattern will be in this course.
Your tip is a good one except for one problem.
You don’t tell us how to make the pattern!
Drilling the holes is easy. Creating an accurate pattern
doesn’t seem to me to be a “walk in the park”.