This is making a sub base for my Makita router from acrylic, using the existing sub base as a template for the screw locations. Follow me on Instagram: / cosmasbauer Videos auf Deutsch: / @coselb
Very clever and informative. I want to do this but I measured a P-C bushing and the larger diameter is 1-3/8" which is common but the smaller diameter is 1-3/16" which is not common. Can you share the Forstner bit sizes you used? - thanks
Very nice video! Also very useful to me since I own an (almost) identical router and intended to get a bushing set but was not sure if it will fit my plunge base.
👍Well done. Thanks for the method. Curious of the tolerances you achieved with this method. If super precise, your method will work exceptionally well with a dado jig guide.
just seen your video, and i must say it is very helpfull. I need to make a couple of those. Still have to find the video on making one without the original base plate.
I've been in the construction industry for over 35 years. I consider myself a woodworker also not just the building industry. I must say this is got to be the most comprehensive sub base video I have seen yet... Great job. I can't wait to learn what you have for ideas on Dust collection. Greg
I tried to make one of these for my router and it...didn't go well. I just have the Makita handheld. I need to get the plunge base and one of those bearing kits. Then I can follow your instructions and try again.
Psst. If you are in the US, check out MCLS website. The plunge base is only 40 dollars, there. Made in the same factory, somewhere in China. The router, itself, has a different speed controller, but all the accessories are interchangeable.
Psst. I forgot to mention. Unlike the Makita version, the Rocky 30 plunge base plate is made to fit these brass template guides, correctly, out of the box. That's what I have read, anyway! (I bought my Makita in the plunge base kit, so my Makita plunge base was only $50.00 rather than the extortion they charge for it, alone.)
After having that same Makita router with the regular base for ~5 years, I finally ordered a second one that came with the plunge base (because it barely cost more than buying the plunge base by itself) and my god it's wonderful.
Google expanding transfer punch for the centering punch. A lot of router base plates are made of a Phenolic resin, it resists warping. Some great tips here. 6:58 is a great idea & gave me a new way to make pattern circles.
thanks for sharing your excellent methods I'm ready to make my base for the Triton TRA 001, instead of buying an expensive kit, especially that I already have those brass bushings for my DeWalt trim router.
Looking forward to the missing sub base video. My router is missing its sub base, and building my own like this will be a lot cheaper than buying a replacement piece.
This is why I am here. I will have to find this missing base video next. I just got an old Craftsman router missing the sub base and you can not find them anywhere anymore. I don't like the poor fit of the iniversal ones so I am left with making my own without a template.
Thank you for such an excellent educational video about a very common problem, router base plates that are not uniformly round and not centered. I just bought a brand new router and expected the base plate to be near perfect but is several thousands off. Your very thorough, step by step, explanation of how to make a "perfect" base plate, including the tools and methods will enable me to replicate the process... Again, great video, Larry
BE AWARE!!! if you buy a router that's having this type twist bushing (like the one this video), the bushing guides will get un-tightened very fast awhile you're using your router. It'll get vibrate alot. One of my bushing and the bit was cross between both, ...and a piece of my bushing was lodged into my face like 100 mph. I would had lost one of my eyes. I will never buy anything again using this type"twist" bushing-guides. I recommend buy another brand or something that does NOT use twist with bushing.
I never experienced this problem until just this morning the bushing untightened itslf when using a router compass. If you think about it, it almost hast to come loose in that application. I think as long as you use it for template routing you'll be fine. Using it with a router compass is definitely problematic.
Why didn't you mention about the size forstner bit exchange so that the bushings can fit flush to the sub base? Also noticed you didn't drill all the way through with the first forstner bit.That's a very important thing you didn't mention...
Great idea, well executed. I have a set of those brass guide bushings that just don't fit well in my router base as well, I'll have to keep this project in mind! Thanks for sharing your ideas.
