How to Make Router Trays: Templates, Tips & More
How to Make Router Trays: Templates, Tips & More
How to make wooden trays and bowls with a router and not a CNC or lathe. If you’re familiar with making cutting boards, this is definitely right up your alley. Even if you’re not, this is definitely a fun project for a hobbyist woodworker, tinker, or maker. In the video, I walk you through all the steps for making wooden trays with router templates.
—⏱Timestamps⏱—
00:00 How to Make a Router Tray
01:11 Router Tray Templates
02:30 Making & Modifying Templates
04:35 Saving Wood
06:20 Glue Ups
06:49 Tracing the Template
07:04 “Hogging” Out Material
08:17 Drill Press Option
09:30 Router Bit & Custom Plate
10:04 Attaching Templates & Routing
12:26 Outside Perimeter
14:58 Sanding Part 1
15:23 Chamfered Option
16:06 Roundover & Edge Profiles
17:03 Sanding Options & Tools
19:28 Raising the Grain
19:59 Finishing Options
21:11 Applying Finish
24:09 Buffing & Burnishing Tips
26:16 Final Product & Last Tips
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—🔨Tools/Supplies I Use🔨—
https://www.homedepot.com/p/RIDGID-5-Amp-Corded-Oscillating-Edge-Belt-Spindle-Sander-EB4424/202459151
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Router Bowl video: https://youtu.be/PjWiA2Vgbfs
—Router Tray Templates—
I purchased my MDF templates from https://www.woodline.com/collections/bowl-tray-templates
—💻Website💻—
https://www.sixeightwoodworks.com
For more about my DIY router table, check out https://www.instagram.com/tv/CAReu4ijclI/
Do you really need the collet extender because when you remove the template you gain 1/4 inch or 1/2
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Hi love your videos
I’m from Israel and I like to know how can I get the jig ? Thanks izzy
Good tutorial!!! I’m new to your dhannel. I will be back. Thanks
Excellent discussion and tutorial. Allowing us to skip steps (if we know what’s going on) is "rad" (that’s what we used to say back in the day). I’ll be perusing more of your vids!
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GRATO!
I can’t understand, how the template keep the router in the straight line?! I’m a bit confused: the router blade doesn’t cut the template also?
que precio tiene al mercado la venta de piezas haci gracias
I put ramekins in my football bowls
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Bideo malooo
What’s the dimensions of the plexi glass 12" v 24"?
Nice tips, thank you 🙂
Love your patterns. Do you sell your copies of your templates?
Awesome video – thank you for providing such great information in an easy way to understand manner.
Great stuff .. Thanks for sharing..definitely learnt a lot..cheers
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GwDBxf7CnNE
Finally!!!! Someone who actually explains things in a way that makes it easier to make templates 👍👍👍
Let the games begin! Sure wish I could send you some beers for your time! Will these do?
🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻👍 Cheers, and thanks again👍 😎
And I really like the tried and true good choice
Great T shirt beautiful work
Muito bom seu trabalho, só gostaria de fosse traduzido para o português. ok
Love your content. Always learn something and really enjoy the way you present the topic. Especially the way you always provide options for tools at different levels of woodworking skill/commitment/engagement/investment however one wishes to quantify it, you provide options. A great way to present to a wide audience. And above all, as always, beautiful work. Love the channel.
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Great ideas👍
Thanks for the tips. They really helped me!!
Nice vid. But something is wrong with your “more” sidebar, at least on iPad, won’t scroll. Likely a YouTube bug, but maybe you formatted something there it doesn’t like.
really enjoy your videos great learning curve for me
Beautiful work brother 🏆
Why would you buy a template?? Draw it out and cut it
Great video, well done 👍🏿
It there is slower version of your boxes?
Cara, muito bacana seu trabalho, suas explicações; seu entusiasmo me fez desejar aprender e melhorar. Porém, hoje começo e darei de aniversário pra esposa exercitando com calma este lindo trabalho. Obrigado.
Very well presented. You’re a really good teacher. You explained everything you were doing and with no huge audio gaps, no distracting music (although a good track can sometimes add to a video), and no annoying jokes or anecdotes that add nothing to the actual content. I found this video really educational since I’m a newby in woodworking and want to try all of it to find my niche. The parts I found most informational were where you created the templates and the finishing process. Really beautiful work and I have already subscribed! I look forward to more like this one.
What are some things that you can do with wood chips? Thanks
Amazing! This is the first video of your that I stumbled upon. I don’t know why you’re not more popular. Great content, great explanation, showing the whole process end-to-end, no fancy, super-complicated, expensive projects/tools. Just a lot of skill. Thanks!
I like your homemade router table. Do you have a video on how you made that?
Beware of the small piece past the table saw blade! Use a push stick or wait for the blade to stop to take away the scrap. It is just scrap.
My husband used these plans from woodprix and he’s very satisfied. However. I love Yours !
great info thanks for posting.
great video but it’s a reminder of why not to make cutting boards or fancy trays when there are so many other opportunities out ther to make a small fortune without having to glue up boards or polish multiple times and use a bandsaw just for cleanup or a router table etc… I’m not knocing this video whatsoever, it’s one of the best I’ve seen as far as details go.. it just enabled me to make a decision to stay away from this kind of woodworking
Hmmm, I have a diode laser. I’m going to try designing my own templates and cutting them out of two layers of 1/4" plywood (the laser only cuts thinner wood). Then I’ll glue them together for a more comfortable thickness. Then, if needed I can copy the template onto MDF with my router.
Amazing work and he makes it look so easy! Just when you start thinking you have some woodworking skills!
fantastic thanks for posting true innovator.
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I watch a ton of videos and I have to say, you give the most thorough informative information I have ever seen. Thank you. I will surely go back and watch all your videos.
Great site .Learned a lot thank you.When you do your glue ups how thick you make your blanks. On YT it looks like 3" think. Is 2" a good thicknell or to thin
nice
Hey, I have to tell you, you are a great teacher. I watch a lot of diy, and you are astonishingly good. Thanks for these video.