Best Way To Use A Woodworking Router For Beginners! 

I just want to say ...that's a nice piece of trim.. Thanks for the video. The kids in my group will be watching this soon. Will post it on Instagram when we do. Then I'll ask them what they want for the next educational tool video.

As a newbie to using power tools, I wanted to thank you for the way you teach us beginners. You are uplifting, funny, and patient. I often fear hurting myself with powerful tools but you've presented this in a way I feel very confident and excited to begin. Thank you again!!!

I personally really appreciate you taking your time step-by-step explaining everything and showing the necessary steps especially rounding off the corners.

Glad this is the first how to router video I watched. I’m a beginner so I didn’t even know what a router does. Thanks for the video

As someone who is building their first electric guitar, and had no idea about these things, I greatly appreciate this. Also, that smile when you talk about certain tricks reminds me of my old shop teacher. Gratification from teaching, gotta love it.

OK....as a 71 yo woman new to woodworking, I loved your lesson. I really appreciated the safety advice, the helpful tips, the great close up photography and your positive upbeat personality. GREAT video. THANK YOU!

Hadn't run a router in oh probably 30 years thought a refresher might be in order. Didn't really pick up anything new but really appreciate and enjoyed your delivery/teaching style. The kind of guy I could hang out, throw back some cold ones and hash out project ideas. Thanx bud. 👍

I've never used a router before, and wanted to watch some how-tos on them before I buy one for a project. This is the best video I've seen. This guy is a natural teacher, anticipating each question and answering it before it comes up, showing things multiple times... Great video!

Boy did I need this video. I’m not necessarily a beginner, but also not necessarily a pro either and am branching out into finer woodworking (versus construction) and haven’t had any hands on experience with a router but am in the market for one. Never understood how the corners get met up like that for that perfect uniform look - and now I do. Been a follower for a while and have been pointed in the direction of a bunch of great deals and now some great info. Thanks, dude! 🤘👍

Thanks alot . Watching you operate the router made me feel confident and at ease.

Thank you very much! I am 62 and Learning to router MDF for Epoxy Resin Art and Countertops. I’ve been doing the Stone Coat Epoxy for about 3 years. Now, I want to do my own substrates!

Thank you soooo much!!! I’m a beginner woodworker (and Philadelphia born). I can’t wait to play with different router bits.

Thanks for the router video. I'm currently turning an acoustic Baby Grand Piano into a Digital one by installing a Digital keyboard into the shell of an early 1900s Baby Grand piano. However, I'm remaking the Fallboard because the Digital Keyboard is deeper than the original keyboard so the old Fallboard doesn't fit. Anyway, I'm no carpenter but I am able to pull things off sometimes. Your video is going to help me as I wanted to round over the front edge of my Fallboard. I'm hoping to learn how to use the router for more things as well. I may not be a newby to power tools but I still learn more with every project I do. Thank you again. Having professionals like you who are willing to help those of us who want to learn how to diy is such an awesome thing and so generous of you to share your knowledge and skill.

you explain how to use a router very well you are a very good teacher well done and thank you

Thanks for the help I started my wood working Business this last year , I have the bigger Bosch Router and smaller router. Thanks for Educating me one how to use very helpful

Thanks. I just bought a router and have never used one before so I really appreciated your video. I am off work due to covid19. Please keep teaching people like me.

Superb instruction video guys!! Just got a router for Christmas and this helped immensely. Ten fold better than the other videos I watched. I’m subscribed and notified of all your vids from now on. Great channel. Keep it up!

Vince is looking jacked in this video! Thank you for the education brother!

The place I come to when I need to learn something my father didn't teach me 😂. Appreciate it man

Love your teaching style. Dumb it down while not making anyone feel dumb. Now I need a router 😊 Cheers!

I really enjoyed your show on using a router. You did a masterful job on getting the average person to learn how to use the router. Thank you

I have never used a router before. This video was very helpful. You have taken some of the mystery out of using this tool. Now I am ready to buy one and start experimenting. Thank you!

Vince and VCG does some of the BEST videos for beginners and test for tradesmen.

Thanks man. Your a good safe teacher. Haven't worked with router since high school woodworking class

Thanks so much! I have been using a DeWalt palm router for years and now I finally got a Bosch 1617 EVS router and a router table and am working with 4x4's. I appreciate the help with the Bosch!

Wow! Thanks! this was really really helpful! I've been wanting so much to get into basic woodworking and have a couple saws & sanders but there's only so much one can do. I have my dads router but after a stroke, it's hard for him to teach me since his speech is limited. He used to make me such cool stuff was I was a teen. I wish I had been interested back then so I could have learned,

Awesome video. I just bought my first router and watched several videos but they lost me after about 30 seconds;) This video was perfect and it was like a buddy in my garage teaching me.

I'm a beginner at routing. I must say this is one of the best on " how to do instructions" I have seen. Keep up the good work my friend.

Great video for beginners. cheers

I’m a newbie. Your explanation was very helpful. Thanks for going slow and explaining everything as you went along. You’re an entertaining guy as well.

Thank you for the informative video. Wood working is completely new to me but with COVID-19 to keep from going crazy I am picking up new skills. I have never used a router. It was just recently when I picked up a Hitachi 10" table saw and Metabo 12" miter side slide. Recently after looking at a number of RU-vid videos I made a 6' high and 5' tall set of storage shelves for the first time and put it together with 16d nails and finally went to 3 1/4 torx screws and it was all made from old fencing material so I ripped the 4x4's to make 2x4's and used the cedar fence boards for the shelves.

Thanks, this is what I needed. I just bought a Rigid router. I made the mistake as you pointed out of buying the small one and took it back and got the larger one. I'm planning to do a simple shelf using the round over bit. I did a couple of trial runs and still learning.

You, my friend, are an exceptional instructor. I’m retired military and retired law enforcement....my experience is that in both of my careers, the best instructors were those that assumed nothing of their class, and taught to the most ignorant student. Since I retired, I’ve developed an interest in woodworking....I had no idea what a “router” was. That said, I recently inherited my wife’s father’s tools (those that his numerous sons and daughters didn’t want). While I didn’t get his router, I did get 20+ quality router bits. I almost took them to Goodwill...but now watching your video, has me thinking seriously about buying a router. I appreciate how you talked “to” -- not “at”-- the camera...you actually reminded me of some of my favorite Officers--especially with those blue “tactical” specs!!! Nice job....Bravo-Zulu on your presentation, AND your on-camera persona! (Now, to talk my wife, who still works, into how I “need” another power tool!!)

What a great video! You're thorough but keep it simple. Thank you! I just bought the exact same router and am feeling a bit overwhelmed at the thought of using it.

Good stuff. First time I used my router I went in the wrong direction. Yikes! You give clear and concise instructions. I’ll continue to watch. Thanks!

It would be great if you could do more videos like this on how to do things. I know a lot of your viewing audience is more advanced users or professional contractors but these type of videos are golden for people in the DIY crowd like myself who hasn't used a router in more than a decade but would like to get back to doing these types of things

This tutorial was very helpful for my first run using a router. Thank you!

Thank you for taking time to share. Us beginners need all the help we can get. You are the best. A+

Yes, thanks so much for this lesson. I have a router that’s been waiting on me to get the courage to begin. I appreciate your tips and the encouragement to get started ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Thanks bud👍 just starting wood working, 65 year old Rookie 👍👍

15:58 "Have FUN!" followed by 2 blinks to signal hes being held hostage and forced to film DIY videos at gunpoint. I'm subscribing just to verify this man doesn't suddenly disappear from future videos.

Now this was big help for a total noob lol. I liked how you explain all the details like how you do something, but also why you do it that way. Thanks and subbed!

Thank you for this video! So helpful!

Excellent video. I am handy but my router has never seen the light of day. Thanks! This is going to help me out a lot.

Thank you tons of help just starting out learning a lot from your videos

Thanks brotha Vince. Just picked up a Ridgid Router. Going to try my luck with it today ☕️😎🤙

Thanks for making this video. I'm the kind of girl that would let go of something with so much power when it vibrated in my hands.. Watching this video helped me feel confident enough to get my router out and see what some of those really cool bits can do. Thanks to your cameraman for getting clear pictures of what the router really does. High Five!!

thanks, great video and tips, I just built my first workbench and just got my first router and jigsaw from the amazon drone LOL, both by Bosch. I'm planning to learn guitar and mandolin building and repair and need all the help I can get. My grandmothers family made musical instruments back in Calabria in the early 1900's, Unfortunately I never got to see any of them but I want to try and carry on the tradition in her memory.

Best router tutorial I've found! Very helpful as I'm making my own trim and I've never used a router before.

Very nicely done !! Thanks Vince and Nick for sharing your thoughts and videos, Rodney P.S. As a newbie to woodworking this was perfect for me I appreciate your time and effort to helping us learn how to make projects like these.

Thank you OG for taking the time to train newbies.

We had to do all this by hand in the 60's, either with a smoothing plane to take the corner off or a wooden moulding plane, which could be as fancy as you wanted!! Thanks for the video, you covered safety and sensible use of the router to make a simple moilding. Thanks James

I just got a much-needed router and yours was the first vid to pop up in my search for beginner basics. Very informative! I feel much more secure about getting started now! Subbed and looking forward to watching more. 🙂

I have recently purchased a router. They have always intimidated me, but your video simplified things wonderfully. I have a 2” x 3” x 8’ piece of wood that I want/need to round to make a railing down into my basement. In the past, I would have crudely rounded it with my palm sander, but now? Now I am actually going to take that big brute out of its snug plastic home and give it a whirl. Now my router has both a fixed and a plunge base. I have no idea which I should be using, but will google that before jumping in. Thanks for the really solid video, and yes, I did subscribe. Cheers.

Thanks for the video. I have a nice Bosch router that I bought years ago for a project. Think its was a little intimidating the one time I used it. Hoping to break it out to make some of our projects look a little more finished. Sure your video will help.

I love this guys videos, it’s like sopranos for woodworking LOL keep them coming guys your videos are awesome

I appreciate the video, I haven't touched a router since shop class 20 years ago and to say I am rusty is and understatement.

I'm about to get my first router and possibly a table for it. I really appreciate this video.

Thanks for the relaxed commentary. Appreciate the beginners lesson!

I have never used a router and your video was very helpful.

I'm a newbie to routing. Still learning. Thanks. I just bought that router, so the vid was spot on.

Thanks for the video! Have a few years of ground up residential construction, but have always had bought trim installed. Remodeling my own house and wanted to know how to use a router with just jumping into it. No need for me to watch other videos now. Thank you sir. One and done.

Just recently bought a dewalt fixed/plunge router and I was a bit intimidated about using it but after watching a few videos (to include this one) I feel a lot more confident in using my new router. I will say it is a game changer!!!

Damnation, it was about time someone knowledgeable about basic router use got up a video on the very basics of such a fine tool. He seems to either remember how he got taught or remember how he would have liked to be taught. Thanks a million Sir. Into the workshop I now go... gonna make me some roundovers.

First time watching your videos. I have a Bosch router and just wanted to get a little instruction. Very nice job my friend.

Nicely done. Sensible and easy to understand. Thank you for emphasizing safety and for the over the shoulder power cord tip.

Finally someone in my neighborhood 🤣😝😀 South Jersey waving a ✋

Great video. I got a new router table for Christmas this year. You video is very informative.

Just what I needed. You answered all my questions. Thanks a lot.

I love this guy, it's like watching wise guys working wood.

Great demonstration , as a beginner I love it

WoW I thought I was the only one wrapping the cord over my shoulder. Excellent procedure Hats of to you!! The cord always got hung up on the floor and my feet stepping on it...

For sure TIGHTEN IT DOWN. I cannot stress that enough lol. As a new woodworker, I used a router for the first time and I almost did what the say in the movie Christmas Story, "you'll shoot your eye out." Thank God it went past my head and not through it. At 27,000 RPM, that thing flew off faster than a jet, hit a few walls and by the time I found the bit, it was bent. Thanks for the video!!

Thanks, I'm totally new to routers that this explained all that I needed to get started. I'm building out my studio for my free video guitar lessons and some chair rail is going to great. Thanks VCG. Also, I liked the free moving camera as opposed to lots of angles and editing. Made it feel like we were in the shop with ya!

Thank you so much; excellent teaching!

Love your enthusiasm. Going to get a router now. Thx.

Very nice presentation, high on safety, easy to understand, charismatic presenter. Good on you.

Thanks Vince, your the man !! Great insight into using a router for the first time.

Nice idea with wrapping the cord around your shoulder when using a router. Great video man, great video

Thank you so much for the informative video!! Love you guys!!! Real and awesomely done!!!👊🏽

Great instructional video one of the best i have seen

Thanks for teaching me how to use a router as I am learning to do a round over on my desktop.

Thank you very much for keeping it super simple!

Awesome video. Just bought the same router today and glad I checked this out very informative and looking forward to using mine now! Thank you again

thank you for taking your time and explaining it to us .

Thanks a lot. I'm building a bay window seating and needed some simple lessons. I have pretty much have all the tools except a router. I think haveing two different bits would be good enough. 👍

Great video, thanks for sharing your knowledge.

I also want to say thank you! That was informative 👍

I have recently started woodworking, I really enjoy it. I want round edges on my chair arms and also would like to engrave designs on some of my projects and also to get a professional look.

Clear & thorough exactly what I needed. Thank you.

It's been many years since I used a router. (router table actually, 8th grade shop class) Good tips here. I'm looking forward to trying out some techniques. Great channel!

Thanks for this video! somehow a great “how to use a router” video was hard find. Then this one popped up and it was totally worth it!

Very good video. I have routers and a router table that I inherited, that I've never used yet. Didn't know enough about these tools and knew next to nothing about the bits.

Awesome and very clear video. Gonna buy a router for using on my wood sign paint parties. 🥰

This Texas girl is in love with your accent 😍 doesn't hurt that you are an outstanding teacher as well 👏

Thanks for the tips... Doing my research on all things routers currently. Got my eye on the Bosch 1617EVS routers and/or the plunge kit too... You've helped to take a little bit of the mystery out of it for me sir... Thanks again, Bill on the Hill, Vermont... :~)

Very helpful video Sir . Bought a router about two years ago .... yet to use it! Need to use it now and your video is spot on ! Given me the confidence to start ! Cheers 👍

Thank you! My main interest was to learn depth setting for simple round over. I needed to understand where that bearing is supposed to be set.

Thanks you made it look easy and you know what it was I appreciate your help.

This is really informative. Great demo of use and different results. Thanks!