Cutting Box Joints On Router Table

Set the depth of cut so that it is slightly more higher than the material thickness.

Cutting box joints on router table.

Brought to you by squarespace. While you could cut box and finger joints by hand both joints are most quickly and efficiently cut with power tools in either solid wood or plywood. A sliding router table jig such as the rockler router table box joint jig works with any router table with a miter slot. No table saw necessary.

All right folks i m gonna get jiggy with it. The easiest methods include using a sliding jig and a table saw a portable router and a template style joinery jig or a router table and sliding fence jig or dedicated box joint router bit. For 10 off your first purchase go to. Start the router and cut the first box joint.

Fasten a runner to the jig s sled section fig. A jig is a device that holds a piece of work and guides the tools operating on it this is going to be a box j. This tutorial video shows a simple method on making a jig out of plywood for a hand held router that attaches to the base. Use a push block to hold the pieces in a vertical position.

Rout a groove down the length of a piece of plywood to begin making the jig s base fig. Clamp both ends of the base to the router table. The jig s sliding fence holds the workpiece vertically and guides it over the router bit. Chris marshall demonstrates these techniques on the triton twx7 workcentre module.

A simple way to cut box joints using a special jig and your router table. How to make finger and box joints with only a router. Learn how to cut box joints using a router table and this simple jig. Box joint jig for router table.

Making box joints on the table saw requires a dado stack which isn t available in all areas. The runner s fit in the base is crucial so begin slightly. Make the base the.