Nicholas Carey
12-13-2015, 6:04 PM
I just picked up a cast aluminum Woodpecker router plate (http://www.woodpeck.com/aluminsert.html). Actual dimensions as to the radius of the corners seem surprisingly unavailable.
[Rhetorical question: Hey, Woodpecker! I'm pretty sure your engineers have the CAD files for that router plate handy — how hard would it be to put up a dimensioned drawing with the minimal dimensions needed to install the plate on your web site?]
i don't want to use their template. Don't need to drop $16 on a piece of MDF that will get used once and then either clutter up the shop or wind up in the landfill. I'd just as soon make a pattern with 4 boards and carpet tape and route out the recess with the correctly sized pattern bit.
Woodpecker customer service told me that the corners are a 1-1/2 inch radius. That's visibly incorrect by at least a factor of 2).
The instructions for their template say to use any bit smaller than 1-1/2 inches in diameter.
Most posts here and there in various woodworking forums and blogs seems to say that the right bit size is 1-1/4 inch diameter, implying a 5/8 inch corner radius.
Does anybody have direct experience with one of these plates that could provide a definitive answer to this question?
[Rhetorical question: Hey, Woodpecker! I'm pretty sure your engineers have the CAD files for that router plate handy — how hard would it be to put up a dimensioned drawing with the minimal dimensions needed to install the plate on your web site?]
i don't want to use their template. Don't need to drop $16 on a piece of MDF that will get used once and then either clutter up the shop or wind up in the landfill. I'd just as soon make a pattern with 4 boards and carpet tape and route out the recess with the correctly sized pattern bit.
Woodpecker customer service told me that the corners are a 1-1/2 inch radius. That's visibly incorrect by at least a factor of 2).
The instructions for their template say to use any bit smaller than 1-1/2 inches in diameter.
Most posts here and there in various woodworking forums and blogs seems to say that the right bit size is 1-1/4 inch diameter, implying a 5/8 inch corner radius.
Does anybody have direct experience with one of these plates that could provide a definitive answer to this question?