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Cutting a template with a router...
Voodooray:
Hi sinner.
The plastic bits you mention should have a piece sticking proud of the rest of the disk. These bolt on to the bottom of the router and are for following an internal pattern. They are very useful but not for what you want at the moment. The blade goes through the whole in the middle and there is a gap between the guide and the blade so the second piece you cut would be slightly bigger. To use these correctly you would need a template slightly larger than the actual shape you wanted to cut and you would run the router around the inside of the template instead of the out side.
Unfortunately this is a terrible explanation, i'll try to photoshop something tommorrow.