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Main => Woodworking => Topic started by: emb on April 28, 2011, 12:33:32 pm

Title: Cheap light wood to use for a routing template?
Post by: emb on April 28, 2011, 12:33:32 pm

I'm going to pick up my mdf and the wood for the template tonight. Any suggestions on what kind of cheap wood to use for the routing template?

Title: Re: Cheap light wood to use for a routing template?
Post by: BobA on April 28, 2011, 01:19:12 pm

I use thin MDF or scraps of plywood that I might have left from other projects.  Buying new thin MDF is probably the cheapest and easiest to cut.

Title: Re: Cheap light wood to use for a routing template?
Post by: javeryh on May 06, 2011, 05:45:36 pm

Also note that a light wood may get indented by the ball bearing on the router bit over time.  This happens to MDF too but just slightly - not enough to where it makes a difference.