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Any hints please on how to make a decent job of routing my grandson's name onto a wood surface?? Thanks
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.a lot of practice, one of those things that in theory should be easy but its quite a skill to use it properly, i have one but it hardly gets used, an ' er indoors chrissy pressie ', one tip is to route the way the bit is turning ie clockwise....(i think its that way around, im sure someone will soon put us right if not)
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If I was doing it freehand, I would draw the name out in full until I was happy with it, and make the line thickness wider than the router cutter. Then I would score round the entire outline to the depth of about 1mm with a sharp blade, then use the router freehand to take out the shape of the writing - if that makes sense.
If you want to just use the router cutter alone to make the name to the width of the cutter, then the only advice I have is to take it slowly, and incrementally..
If you want to just use the router cutter alone to make the name to the width of the cutter, then the only advice I have is to take it slowly, and incrementally..