Router Slab Flattening Jig

Woodpeckers slab flattening mill guides your router over your slab in a controlled plane.

Router slab flattening jig. The slab flattening mill starts with two aluminum extrusions. A half sheet of 34 ply and your plunge router is about all you really need to make this router sledslab flattening mill. Nick offermans shopmade router jig flattens thick slabs to create nakashima style tabletops and other unique pieces. In late july of 2018 myself and my podcast partner brad rodriguez took a trip out to the desert to hang out with mike montgomery and ben uyeda at their summer home in joshua tree california.

Slab flattening router jig woodworking plans projects education shop essentials. Or download the screenshots below. Since youre using a router instead of a planer style cutterhead tear out is minimalthe surface will only need light sanding afterwards. This jig allows you to joint and plane bigger boards that wont fit in your planer or jointer with help of a router.

Ill also assume that you have a router with some kind of base it can be either a plunge base or a fixed basewatch the sled in action. Making a simple and cheap router sled for flattening boards and slabs. I also made the hole for the router bit 1 12 wide. Woodworking jig plans slab flatten.

Hope this helps out. Take your dimensions of your router and bit and apply it to your sleds dimensions. The details in the magazine article were a little sparse since they are dependent on your router setup. Toolsproducts used in.

The heart of the jig is a trough that guides the router over the workpiece allowing you to even out the high and low points as much as possible and retain the maximum possible thickness. Thank you all for watching. Slab flattening jig sketchup plans. The router base was 5 34 so i made the inside width of the sled 5 78 the router will fit into this with an offset of 18.

And then show you how i use mine. For this project youll need a piece of melamine and a couple 2x4s. Making the router sled rails. This is really a simple build.

How make a flattening jig for a router. In this video i go over the process i use to make a diy router sled aka. I made the plans after i made the jig which is sort of backwards but i just wanted to have them on the site for other people to check out.