While cutting a rabbet is one of the more basic uses of a router, if it's your first time, there are things to be learned. Glen Huey teaches how to make a perfect rabbet using a router.
Spent weeks looking for videos on how to cut a rabbet bit but slightly deeper than this and as a novice who's never used any woodworking tools all the other videos making templates and jigs, etc, didn't even know what a jig was and I just need 8 bits for a new window case with a routed channel on the back to fit good, and you solved it without making any complicated tools or expensive tables which I don't have. Thank you so much!
I'm used to larger, corded routers ru-vid.comUgkxfQ5_mgwq6PcudJvAH25t-I4D-3cTPz4z so this was a different experience for me. Basically, this is an incredibly sweet machine, fits well in the hand, etc. It has slightly less power than I'm used to, but that's understandable. Maneuvering freehand takes some practice. These days, it's especially nice to be able to avoid power cords. This is above the level of a hobbyist but below a pro level.
My google search was exactly your title, and this was the second hit on the page. I had my suspicion on how to do this with a router, and your video was exactly what I thought. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
This video is EXACTLY what I needed and was looking for! Thank you so much for the explanations on the different ways of using a router for a rabbet, I have been stressing all day until I watched this!
I totally don't get how you did that climb cut. You went the opposite direction on the wood, but how did you get it to be a shallow cut? Sorry, I'm new to the router and still confused.
This is very instructive, thanks. Could you please give more specifics on the '3/4" straight bit with top-mounted bearing' which you describe at @5:35? Although it is a straight bit, in the sense that its sides appear to be vertical, I think I can see fairly clearly that the cutting edges appear to be curved. I am a router learner, so I am not all that confident about the terminology: is this a "spiral bit" of some kind? If so, what kind? The more you can characterise it the better: the taxonomy of router bits is quite daunting for a newbie. Maybe you could even specify the make and model of this bit so I can go away and research it and find out what category it is said to be in? For example, whether it is a carbide cutting edge bit (my understanding so far is that all spiral bits have carbide cutting edges...). Thanks.
I pickup from the garvage a bathroom Mirror , dismanteled and discover the glass frame had two rabeting -- You Story spins is precisily what I have been looking for such long time, It is how to cut a double rabbeting for a glass and the back board , it is a technike , actually I was looking fo a rabbetin Bit. , Thank you so muc -Negron- Monday April 5/ 2021 bronx, NY.
Song to an incompetent woodworker: You ain't nothing but a hound dog, crying all the time, You ain't never cut a rabbet and you ain't no friend of mine.
Question, when you are back routeing, you are doing this free hand, correct? this is all by feel, you did not change the bearing so there is nothing there by your feel to keep it close?
Thank you for an excellent demonstration on how to do a rabbet cut. Just curious about that two step rabbet, was that a Texas JackRabbit Two Step or a Kentucky Cotton Tail DosieDo....
That's a smart question, and yes you can. If I'm understanding right and the board has a flat top and you're wanting to put the picture straight upright in the board. You can make this groove either all the way across, or stop short of the edges for an exact fit of the width of the picture. Look up "dado cuts with a router". WoodWorkWeb has some beginner friendly videos on it. I recommend practicing on some scrap wood though, these pros make it all look easy but there's definitely a learning curve. Good luck with your project!
He's running it the wrong way but real lightly and/or with a different router bit. This is before doing the real pass(es) at the desired depth/width. This is to kindof smooth out the edge of the wood, so that the router bit edge doesn't grab the wood grain ends and tear it out, making unsightly little holes.
Does it have to be a plunge router? Is that a plunge router? I can't see too well. It appears to have a depth adjustment though I think that's what that black knob is? Trying to learn some woodworking, thanks!
You can use either a plunge router or a fixed-base router to make a rabbet. Slightly different adjustment for depth if you're taking the cut in more than one pass, but essentially the same process. Happy to help!
