How to Make a Sub Base for a Woodworking Router

This is making a sub base for my Makita router from acrylic, using the existing sub base as a template for the screw locations.
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[@andre1987eph]

3 Forstner bits typically needed (for Bosch RA1166 for 1617 series routers, Dewalt DNP 612 plunge base for Dewalt's trim routers)". 3:05 10mm (3/8") Forstner bit (for the Phillips screw holes) This 10mm (3/8") bit cuts a flat hole (rather than tapered hole) and is slightly wider than the screw's head. The slightly oversized flat surface allows the base to "float" so you can later center the router bit inside the bushing using a router centering cone. This method is preferable to the technique used in the video and is how manufacturers make their sub bases. 5:30 1 3/8" (35mm) (base opening to seat typical brass template bushing, ie Powertec, Rockler, etc) 6:13 1 3/16" (30mm) Forstner bit (base opening to seat typical brass template bushing, ie Powertec, Rockler, etc)

[@snarf2002]

Thank you for the bushing sizes because I've sat through about 20 of these videos trying to find the bit sizes needed for the inset of the bushing guides and they all seem to gloss over that part

[@andre1987eph]

@@snarf2002 You're welcome. I just received the corresponding Forstner bits form amazon and ready to try to make my own sub-base 😀).

[@gregorylondos534]

I've been in the construction industry for over 35 years. I consider myself a woodworker also not just the building industry. I must say this is got to be the most comprehensive sub base video I have seen yet... Great job. I can't wait to learn what you have for ideas on Dust collection. Greg

[@pipercub45]

I didn't know about that centering punch. Thanks!

[@Saladzingers]

Absolutely must have one of those variable centre punches, that’s awesome!

[@EEEZSolutionS]

Thank you for such an excellent educational video about a very common problem, router base plates that are not uniformly round and not centered. I just bought a brand new router and expected the base plate to be near perfect but is several thousands off. Your very thorough, step by step, explanation of how to make a "perfect" base plate, including the tools and methods will enable me to replicate the process... Again, great video, Larry

[@hypnolobster]

After having that same Makita router with the regular base for ~5 years, I finally ordered a second one that came with the plunge base (because it barely cost more than buying the plunge base by itself) and my god it's wonderful.

[@tjacksonwoodworker3726]

Excellent. Love your videos and like to see you work. Very precise and high quality.

[@LonelyDogBarking]

Got the same guide bushings and no sub base for it. Tnx. This video is exactly what I was looking for.

[@tallpaul7657]

I have just encountered that a inlay kit similar to this I have didn't quite fit my routers, thank you so much for the video,!

[@Oops-IMeantToDoThat]

The teeny chuckle is priceless :)

[@thomasz4981]

Google expanding transfer punch for the centering punch. A lot of router base plates are made of a Phenolic resin, it resists warping. Some great tips here. 6:58 is a great idea & gave me a new way to make pattern circles.

[@sarmudi]

That laugh at 1:56 just made my day 😂😂😂 great video😊

[@youmbgtube]

Very clever and informative. I want to do this but I measured a P-C bushing and the larger diameter is 1-3/8" which is common but the smaller diameter is 1-3/16" which is not common. Can you share the Forstner bit sizes you used? - thanks

[@TigerCarpenter]

thanks for sharing your excellent methods I'm ready to make my base for the Triton TRA 001, instead of buying an expensive kit, especially that I already have those brass bushings for my DeWalt trim router.

[@titol34]

Very excellent thanks for sharing such great and comprehensive video . keep on mister woodworker :-)

[@singJJBplay]

Great idea, well executed. I have a set of those brass guide bushings that just don't fit well in my router base as well, I'll have to keep this project in mind! Thanks for sharing your ideas.

[@Oops-IMeantToDoThat]

If you can forster just slightly smaller than the coffee, you could tso that hole and possibly not need the guide nut (would let you extend router bit a smudge more as the nut depth would be in the way.

[@Javier..Escobar]

Gracias por su trabajo y explicación.

[@arth.4196]

Excellent Demo.

[@paulangus715]

Perfect Cosmas, and I have that router!

[@TheLindsay720]

As do I! Keen to see the dust extraction idea.

[@simonbergman5970]

It's a great router!

[@davidstoleson792]

This is fantastic. Thank you!

[@johnhusband924]

Very good video and thanks for sharing do you have a link to the punch you used.

[@asd67lkj]

Can you please let me know what size forstner cutters you used. I am having dificulty finding that information.

[@Studio23Media]

I tried to make one of these for my router and it...didn't go well. I just have the Makita handheld. I need to get the plunge base and one of those bearing kits. Then I can follow your instructions and try again.

[@mildyproductive9726]

Psst. If you are in the US, check out MCLS website. The plunge base is only 40 dollars, there. Made in the same factory, somewhere in China. The router, itself, has a different speed controller, but all the accessories are interchangeable.

[@mildyproductive9726]

Psst. I forgot to mention. Unlike the Makita version, the Rocky 30 plunge base plate is made to fit these brass template guides, correctly, out of the box. That's what I have read, anyway! (I bought my Makita in the plunge base kit, so my Makita plunge base was only $50.00 rather than the extortion they charge for it, alone.)

[@Studio23Media]

Mildy Productive THANK YOU!!!

[@agjohnsonandson]

Very well done

[@FredMcIntyre]

Nicely done! 😃👍🏻👊🏻

[@AndreiIR000]

Very nice video! Also very useful to me since I own an (almost) identical router and intended to get a bushing set but was not sure if it will fit my plunge base.

[@jamsand3]

did you ever make the video on finding the screw holes for the base?

[@asd67lkj]

I was just going to ask this question... I have a router that I have lost the base to fit.

[@Markus_Stoiber]

Tip: Polycarbonate is much better than acrylic! It is not so brittle and does not break as easily as acrylic glass.

[@takeniteasyfriend]

👍Well done. Thanks for the method. Curious of the tolerances you achieved with this method. If super precise, your method will work exceptionally well with a dado jig guide.

[@daveandlesa]

Very useful

[@MuhammadDaudkhanTV100]

Beautiful

[@hrxy1]

Excellent well explained vid ty

[@MRrwmac]

Another good video! Thank you!

[@ianwatson9032]

What size were the forstner bits?

[@hassanal-mosawi6049]

Thanks for sharing that!

[@MuhammadDaudkhanTV100]

Awesome

[@alexfagundes2544]

Can you send me a link where you found that center hole punch

[@MuhammadDaudkhanTV100]

Super

[@120Livi]

wait, you have a german channel too?

[@zski03]

Looking forward to the missing sub base video. My router is missing its sub base, and building my own like this will be a lot cheaper than buying a replacement piece.

[@jssamp4442]

This is why I am here. I will have to find this missing base video next. I just got an old Craftsman router missing the sub base and you can not find them anywhere anymore. I don't like the poor fit of the iniversal ones so I am left with making my own without a template.

[@MRrwmac]

Audience, What guide bushing set do you recommend that would be precise and last a lifetime for a DIRer but not too expensive?

[@MrVit68]

👍🏻

[@rafirafi-garage]

Give a tipp wher to buy this centering punch.

[@claudioboudakian4165]

I can't find it.

[@vdsivan]

just seen your video, and i must say it is very helpfull. I need to make a couple of those. Still have to find the video on making one without the original base plate.

[@wwfera00]

Why didn't you mention about the size forstner bit exchange so that the bushings can fit flush to the sub base? Also noticed you didn't drill all the way through with the first forstner bit.That's a very important thing you didn't mention...

[@CosmasBauer]

May I suggest you use your eyes to extract that information from the video?

[@ndo342]

@@CosmasBauer zing!

[@Kerndrup]

anyone know where i can find that center punch???

[@grahamstephenson1505]

Rose oil massage- LOL

[@trydiy8194]

👍👍

[@АлександрВладимирович-к2р]

👍👌✋.

[@aag6499]

Guys. Buy a caliper and check your bushings diameters! Duh!

[@heut4384]

BE AWARE!!! if you buy a router that's having this type twist bushing (like the one this video), the bushing guides will get un-tightened very fast awhile you're using your router. It'll get vibrate alot. One of my bushing and the bit was cross between both, ...and a piece of my bushing was lodged into my face like 100 mph. I would had lost one of my eyes. I will never buy anything again using this type"twist" bushing-guides. I recommend buy another brand or something that does NOT use twist with bushing.

[@CosmasBauer]

I never experienced this problem until just this morning the bushing untightened itslf when using a router compass. If you think about it, it almost hast to come loose in that application. I think as long as you use it for template routing you'll be fine. Using it with a router compass is definitely problematic.