Wood Router Tips and Tricks from Colin Knecht

DUMB, Just DUMB! ALWAYS work your tools to MAXIMIZE the work THEY do and HOW they do it, DON'T FIGHT your tools. The power and geometry of your tools will ALWAYS work AGAINST you. YOU WILL NOT WIN.. You want pictures? JUST ASK!!

A good tip but open bit no eye protection should be acknowledged FYI safety first.

Couldn’t you do the same thing with two boards you wanted to join if you a bit long enough

You are a great teacher and a great talent on communicating things. Thank you so much for being here

Excellent, excellent video. Thanks Colin. 💯

Hi Colin, ... as always I enjoyed your video. Love the "tips and tricks". I've recently started to get to know my router a little better so as to be able to use it more on my guitar making projects. I've even gone and bought myself a 2nd router that fits a new insert and router lift on my router table. So this video has been very helpful to me. I have been looking for better dust and chip collector attachment for the router table and that will fit my Rigid 2.5 HP router { Model # R29303 } ,.... any suggestions would be helpful.

Might be best to use a feather board when planing the edge so the board cannot kick out at the beginning of the feed.
Great video as always 👍

Now this is how a true carpenter teaches..

Most helpful tips. They will go into my tips library. Thank you very much.

Thank you for sharing, I had a lady give me a craftsman table but had no router. I picked up a really nice craftsman plug router with a red screw gage on it to measure the depth. I am looking to put the two together and figure out how I can use the screw holes to use an adjustable screw on the top of the table to adjust the height while connecting the whole thing to the table. Then off to figuring out how to put a plunge cut on about 50' of facia so I can inset my soffit in it and rebuild my eaves of the house. Looks like I need to get bits yet and the insert plate so any tips on cutting 1x6 facia board and putting in a plunge cut would be helpful along with what kit I would need to set up a leveler screw in the table itself.

Great table

Good instruction. Thank you.

Just the other day the router took a board and flew it across the room. Had no idea that I needed to feed it from the other side. The warnings say to always feed from the right! Now I know, and thanks!!

I learned so much from this short clip !!! The visual using the tablesaw blade was VERY helpful. Thanks!

Great video, very helpful!!!

thanks

So useful, as usual, Colin. Thank you very much.

What a perfect video to watch for me, for I just got a piece of wood thrown by my router because I inserted it from right to left. Kindly please do a detailed video on the safe and proper feeding of the material into the router. I just did my own DIY router table and so I am just learning how to do it safely. Thanks much.

Awesone! Thank you! 🙂

Another fantastic tip, thanks Colin

This may be a dumb question, but is there a reason you don't place the straight edge of the router base against the stop?

wheew... that's a big tip, colin... thanks...

Thanks for the tips, very helpfull!

Tnx for this video!

I really enjoy coming back to these tips and tricks videos. Thank you. 👍😎🇦🇺

Great

Tq for sharing...Gbu.

use a drill bit...omg...perfect solution

Thanks for the great tips. I'm an old amateur woodworker. I know a lot about woodworking but you always come up with some great tips. Thank you.

thank you for all the great tips.

I use a router almost every day for door and lock installation. They are very powerful tools.

Love your CALM style Colin... You are a real source of inspiration to a newbie!!! I'm actually trying out Dados at the moment and your Dado tip is Right on Cue

I’ve learned a lot from your video. I like your emphasis on safety. Watched a few guys use all fingers. Very scary.

Your use of the saw blade to show which direction the work and the router should go is the best explanation I've seen yet. Thanks for that.

I dont understand why you are not using the built-in ruler of the router?

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I just watched your other video on how to use a router table and I can say with absolute certainty...you need to re-make that video!! It's nine years old and you can tell how far you've come with making videos since then! PLEASE re-make that video! It's awkward, clumsy, has some REALLY BAD editing. So Colin, for the sake of humanity, PLEASE re-shoot that video!

thank you,i know nothing about this,now learning from you

I do not at all understand two things about the end demo in this video:
1. WHY would you want to do the edge with the wood fence set up, as opposed to doing the same on your table saw? The table saw is faster to set up and faster to cut the wood (and safer, I think!).
2. Why did you repeatedly call this "planing", and say "if you don;t have a planer"? This looks like jointing, not planing.

Great stuff Colin. Thank you very much!
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Good router tips!

Thank you for the video!

We you a teacher at dinner point in your life? 😊

very nice wood router tips thanks

Had to watch the dado clip again to understand it. Awesome tip! Excellent explanation of which direction to approach the bit on a router table. The table saw comparison is a great one, not heard it before and easy to visualize. Thx!

OK i have watched this video four times and I still don't get why you need to use the ⅝" measuring strip on the first pass in order to match the thickness of your workpiece when you cut a dado into the plywood... Why couldn't have just used the temporary fence you have clamped as your guide on the first pass... I know i am missing something here, just can't figure out what it is 🤔

I’m still scratching my head on the dado cut. The spacing from the fence and how you used 2 different spacers, went whoosh! Right over my head.

Colin, why wouldn’t you just come in from the right on the router table and use the front of the bit? What is the benefit of what you showed?