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Mark Jig Plate for Drilling

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Cutting a prefect circle with a router!

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What happens here

Take the clear plastic base plate that was just removed from the router. Position this base plate onto a piece of wood, preferably plywood, that is large enough to create the desired jig. Using a pen or pencil, trace the exact locations of the four screw holes and the central opening of the base plate onto the new piece of wood. This will serve as a template for drilling.

Goal: Transfer screw and center hole locations to the new jig plate

Tools and materials

  • Pen/Pencil — Marking drilling locations
  • Router Base Plate — Acting as a template for marking
  • Plywood — The material for creating the new router jig

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Here's how to cut a perfect circle with a router. Let's get after it. Start out by cutting a piece of wood that'll fit on your base plate like that. Take the four screws out of your base plate, take your base plate off, and throw it on your wood. Now, take a pen, pencil, whatever you got, and just mark your holes. Going to look something like that. Our four screw holes, and our one big one in the middle. Like get a drill bit roughly the size of your screws, and drill at your four corners. Now, up your bit size. Get a little bit

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