Trim Router Jig

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#298537 25-Jun-2022 14:38

I have recently made this jig for my trim router based on a few YouTube posts I found. The large flat base and handles make the router easier to control, especially when doing edge round overs. Less chance of it tipping over edge. The extensions make it easy to cut dados/slots up to about 330mm from the edge.

I tried to get a spare base assembly from The Toolshed without any luck, so got one off AliExpress for $13 delivered. Looks like most of the trim routers of various brands are clones of each other, or just a similar size.

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#2934313 25-Jun-2022 16:49

Very nice!

How did you cut the acrylic so neatly? I've got a much simpler one based on the Sumarai Carpenter/Marius Hornberger model but made a bit of a mess of the grooves for the fence. Still works and I use it all the time.

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#2934455 25-Jun-2022 22:22

I cut the acrylic to size with my track saw and the grooves on my router table. The round spacer washers were just made with a hole saw on a battery drill.

Cutting acrylic makes one hell of a mess!

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#2934554 26-Jun-2022 10:46

I made mine out of spare ply but a very different design, with a 90-degree chunk cut out of it for cleaning up mortise joints where, despite measuring about three times before cutting, one part of it still shows the miraculous ability to transplant itself about half a mm up above the surrounding timber. Would have been better made from acrylic but the hassle and mess of cutting it, and the fact that I had a ply lying around, meant I used that.

And yeah, those cheap plastic bases are universal, the accessories are typically sold as being for Ryobi trim routers but they fit pretty much any equivalent non-Ryobi.

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#2934578 26-Jun-2022 12:01

Yes, the base I bought was listed for Makita and Workz.

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#2934603 26-Jun-2022 13:20

Didnt think to get another base from there. My old ryobi base broke so I bought a whole new one, but a base means getting it back working again and can use it for a different bit and not have to be re-setting the router all the time. They're not like drills and drivers where it makes sense to have so many to stop needing to swap all the time because they're much lower use items.

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