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Quick Router Table Circles
One afternoon my wife called out to my shop with an ur-
gent request. She needed me to make a round cake plate
from^1 / 4 " plywood for a charity auction. I assured her it
would be no problem. I was in the middle of a project
and didn’t want to spend all afternoon on this. Then it
hit me, I could use my router table.
I ripped a^3 / 4 " wide strip of^3 / 8 " hardwood to fi t the
miter slot and drilled a pilot hole near one end for a
box nail, which I inserted from the bottom. Then I
clamped the hardwood strip into my routers table’s mi-
ter slot so the distance from the nail to the bit equaled
the circle’s radius.
I drilled a center hole in the soon-to-be cake plate, and
positioned it on the nail. I held the edge of the plywood
up while switching on the router, then lowered it onto the
bit very carefully. After the bit bored through, I rotated
the plywood counterclockwise, opposite the bit’s rota-
tion, to cut a perfect circle. —Doug Bittinger
Reusable Tack Cloth
Microfiber cloth picks
up tiny dust particles
as well as, if not better
than, a tack cloth.
Unlike a tack cloth,
microfiber cloths are
washable and reusable.
Rockler Sells Norton’s
microfiber finishing
cloth for $5-7, but any
microfiber cloth will
work as long as it has
hemmed edges.
—Kevin Southwick