How to Duplicate a Shape with a Router

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Hi, my name is Kevin, and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to talk to you about template and duplicate routing. What that means is when you have to make a lot of similar pieces that are generally a complex shape, you want to make one piece, get it to the exact size you want it, and then take that and use it as a template for all the other pieces. So, for instance, on this piece here, that was originally part of a display case, that there were going to be five of them, we got the one piece to the size that we wanted it, and then what you do from there is you're going to use this as your template with a flush trim bit to do all the other pieces. So you'll lay this piece down on your other pieces, trace it out, waste away as much as you can with a band saw or a jigsaw that can get into all these small areas and get it as close as you can, and from there you're going to take the router and run the bearing on this and let the cutter head cut the piece to this exact size. So that from piece to piece, from display case to display case, or whatever you're building, all the pieces will be exactly the same, and fit together on any other pieces that you're going to be fitting them to, or just to achieve the exact same look. We have our template, and we've got our piece that we're going to duplicate to it. We've got the template on the bottom so we have a bottom bearing bit here. This bearing is going to ride along the bottom piece, and this cutter head right here is going to cut this top piece to the exact shape. We've already rough-cutted out on the band saw, so we've wasted away most of that material, so we just have a little bit to take off. And so we're going to go around and cut all this out, and get it to our exact shape of this. We're not going to do the entire piece because of the time, but you'll get the idea that you just rough cut it out, put it on here, and then just follow it around with the router. Same process whether you're doing just this little bit or the entire piece.

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