Router on Rail: Festool OF 1400

[@moderntouchfurniture]

I was doing this all wrong, these videos are so invaluable, thank you guys, and right on time for my next project!!!

[@sedgetool]

Happy to help!

[@stefa00]

I love how simple although deep your explainations are on how to set up the tools correctly (domino, router, track saw). You have a unique way to get rid of the unnecessary info and focus on the pure essence of the tool's function. I discovered your channel recently and I became big fan since then. Keep up the good work.

[@sedgetool]

WOW...Wicked cool..Thank you so much for getting us .. we love to teach !!!

[@bjarner]

I love your videos Seth. 👍🏻 I keep coming back to them to refresh best-practice when I’m about to use a tool I haven’t used for a while.

[@sedgetool]

awesome

[@AngieWilliamsDesigns]

Just bought the 1400 after watching two of your Festool Lives. I can’t wait for it to come in.

[@sedgetool]

Wicked cool !!!

[@w.robbgraham7684]

The only bad experience I’ve ever had with a Festool product was when I was routing on a guide rail with my OF 1400 and the collet and bit came out. Looking at the way that you support the guide rail adapter leads me to believe that I was not adequately supporting the router on to the guide rail. Big D reminds me of myself and most amateurs who go weeks or months between using a tool again. “We are not slow learners. We are quick forgetters.”

[@sedgetool]

Now you have a quick reference to refresh your memory ...Thanks Robb !!!!!!!!

[@texasbelliott]

While I really enjoy watching these videos and absorbing the GREAT information, the impact to my pocket book and corresponding increase to my Festool collection creates friction with the finance department (wife). ;-) Stay Shaahp.

[@sedgetool]

sorry about the loss of funds !!!!!!

[@ron1martens]

Texas Belliot. Perhaps you can smuggle in your new Festool's at the right opportunity. When your finance department administrator is making an inspection of your tool shed and sees your new festool. Perhaps there need to be a lack of something so the attention is diverted somewhere else.

[@BW-cw4lq]

Professor Sedge, BIG “D”, What a fantastic video! Some many takeaways..pencil an darken the center mark, how to use the center gage and where it goes. I love the idea of the Renaissance Wax was a great idea to help with the friction. The start and stop block. The list goes on. Thank You Gentlemen! “Be Sharp, Stay Positive”. This is a MUST WATCH VIDEO!

[@sedgetool]

Awesome, thank you Blake !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@josegaut]

Awesome video, I have an OF1010 but use it very rarely with the rail and other accessories ... how stupid I am 🙄😁. I have learnt very useful things here, a big thank you ! 👍🏼

[@sedgetool]

Thanks for watching!

[@ron1martens]

I didn't do too bad the times I was using the guide rail for routing. I always held the attachment to the guide rail like shown in this video. I did some satisfactory work in doing so. The off1400 is quite a good machine and the first festool I bought.

[@sedgetool]

Thanks for sharing!

[@warrensmith2902]

Nice warm up for tomorrow and Festool Live.

[@sedgetool]

Rock on!

[@ericb.davenport9762]

Excellent presentation. Thank you.

[@sedgetool]

Thanks

[@trev2417]

Another specific video, brilliant

[@sedgetool]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Filmchippy]

Just ordered this attachment for my 1400. Had one for my 2200 but found if trimming and edge where you cant use the support foot there was a bit of wobble. Hoping to use my 1400 with the chip catcher to trim the edge of some 20mm solid surface material. Hopefully the lighter 1400 wont wobble . Only other thing i can think of doing is building a support batten away from the edge to rest the support foot on, eliminating any wobble, but still allowing the chip catcher to be used. Thinking out loud 😂

[@sedgetool]

There may be a base for that on the Festool website....

[@imc4357]

I love this channel. Thanks guys.

[@sedgetool]

Thanks 🙏

[@nickpinder3047]

This is such a helpful video - thank you!

[@sedgetool]

You're so welcome!

[@TitanFlyer2015]

I’m not the only one that thinks that was a miss right? It’s off by several millimeters towards the track side. Mistakes happen, but ignoring it and not explaining why that happened is missing a great opportunity to help people not do that again. Great tool, great instruction, but a huge miss on explaining why it was a failure.

[@sedgetool]

OK

[@ThisTall]

Great set up! Curious if the track might have moved a bit cause the hole was a bit off the lines after you aligned it perfectly.

[@sedgetool]

not sure

[@MattLitkeRacing]

I used this setup to cut a beadboard look into MDF. It was for the back of a mud room locker where I didn’t want a thin panel

[@sedgetool]

very cool

[@juliet4262]

This is great! Now I need a new router 😊Also thanks for the reply on my CT questions re kapex miter station

[@sedgetool]

No worries!

[@onecreative1]

Great video!

[@sedgetool]

Thanks!

[@dmike4831]

Great video! Sincerely Envizion Autoglass 😎

[@sedgetool]

Thanks! 👍

[@kevinc2683]

Sledg I went thru the video and it came in handy. So what does Renaissance Wax provide over butchers wax or others that are on the market.

[@sedgetool]

seems to hold up longer

[@pavlos63]

Can you use this application to cut a mortice on an edge? For example to make a face frame or a table apron?

[@sedgetool]

I would not use this method...I have used a parallel guide with stacked material to do mortises on an edge

[@mrmajestic345]

isn't there a stepped base for that router, that puts the reference mark on the work piece, so you don't have so much parallax error? That was off towards the track.

[@sedgetool]

hmmmmmmmm

[@mrmajestic345]

@ what I thought!

[@silentsun67]

Does the guide rail system happen to work with the Kreg guide track?

[@sedgetool]

I do not know ...

[@danesparza77]

What bit are you using there? I'm trying to cut a dado for 18mm plywood shelves

[@sedgetool]

I use this undersized plywood set all the time .....amzn.to/49atHXd

[@ArtistfkaLuis]

The track rail is clamped tight with the silver angle finder on the mft ?

[@sedgetool]

huh ?????????????

[@chippychippy8291]

These videos are awesome. Would you do a rabbit the same way? Thinking about a 8’ cabinet for the back panel… thoughts?

[@sedgetool]

I like to rabbet with a bearing rabbet bit...very simple and quick process....

[@chippychippy8291]

@@sedgetool with the router in a table or just by hand, and if so any attachment?

[@pbragg100]

Any tips on using the tract and festoon router to cut out a circle table?

[@sedgetool]

will think about it ....

[@pbragg100]

I used the track. I put a dowel in middle of table. My track has a hole in the center near the top. I don’t remember drilling that hole but oh well. I used the guide stops and a limit stop for added hold. It worked ok.

[@thatgmc]

Think you could plane a slab with this setup?

[@sedgetool]

not really...too much flex in the rail/track.....

[@gavinolivier4583]

@Sedge, my set didn’t come with the T-shaped support bracket/scale that you showed here. I also cannot find it on the Festool website. Do you have a part number for it by chance? Many thanks for the amazing videos, I learn so much!!

[@sedgetool]

438 608 = support 59 10019109 Support 1 1 $2.40 Yes USD 436 195 = knob 58 436195 Rotary knob 1 1 $1.60 Yes USD

[@gavinolivier4583]

Thanks Sedge, you’re a legend!

[@ILruffian]

Great info, thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge. Related note: I need a 110" rail Festool rail. Noticed they have a new style, but the longest they make is 74". If portability is no concern, am I better with joining two 55" new style rail, or buying the old style full 110"?

[@sedgetool]

I use my 3000 mm rail all the time

[@ILruffian]

@@sedgetool Just pulled the trigger. Convinced me to go 3000 (metric) instead of 2700.

[@darvaish4552]

Hi Grand Master Sedge, i love your videos and you made me slip down the Festool slope and i am loving it. boy Festool is worth every single dime that i have spent on it. can you please guide how to zero the depth set up using the scale while on the guide rails. i did zero it if not using guide rails. but if i want to use it on guide rails, i have to screw the turret in nearly all the way. is it okay to do it? your reply will be a great help for me. many thanks

[@sedgetool]

I think this is what you are looking for kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5XMiJmZnaeqj9E Hope this helps !!!!

[@James-lo5ne]

i wish festool made a 5mm half router base like the 2200 has, I don't like to support on a tiny foot.

[@sedgetool]

ok

[@rickbyno2401]

Have you done the same set up with a 1010 router?

[@sedgetool]

Yes, I use to use the OF1010 all the time with the LR32...but ..have switched to the OF1400

[@sebastianbrzyszczan9712]

5mm bic pencil? I have the same in red🙂

[@sedgetool]

I use 9mm Bic pencil....

[@philledbetter206]

Sedge, I love your videos! I have looked everywhere for someone who has the OF 1400 in stock, and I can't find it. Is this router discontinued? Or is it being improved on by Festool and will be available soon?

[@kevinmccarty157]

I’ve searched everywhere. Finally found out it’s discontinued

[@Mike--K]

@@kevinmccarty157 I can't comment on the availability in the U.S, but the OF 1400 EBQ-Plus is definitely available in Europe and is not discontinued.

[@AaronGeller]

They released a new version of it Edit: I meant the OF1010 not the 1400, I miswrote.

[@bladee_enjoyer540]

From everything I've heard the 1400 is just having some kind of supply chain issues and they'll be available again in June/July. Most festool dealers will let you put your name down to reserve one. I managed to find one locally on Craigslist a month or two ago. It might have to do with the new rules on routers about the power switch safety, but I'm not sure.

[@sedgetool]

IT is NOT Discontinued ... just on back order

[@benno390]

Sedge you got a part number for that router support bracket i need one for my of2200?

[@sedgetool]

www.festoolusa.com/accessory/494681---fs-of-2200

[@benno390]

@@sedgetool Hey sedge youre the man, I have the entire of2200 accessory kit but im pretty positive the support bracket is not in there is that something I should call festool for?

[@CarstenDittrich2014]

Thank you both. Truly a fantastic video! So many takeaways I learned from - being a newbie... Could you share what the router bits you use are? I find it difficult to learn what good quality bits are... (other than Festool ofc 🙂)

[@sedgetool]

I use bits from here bitsbits.com/

[@HillCountryDemo]

This was a great video however it would’ve been helpful if you would’ve discussed how to use the micro adjust feature.

[@sedgetool]

thanks ...will do in upcoming video

[@AaronGeller]

I think Sedge showed in a few other videos how to do this as well. Techniques overlap.

[@AmberSantana-is3dq]

What kind of rail is this please help link anyone

[@sedgetool]

amzn.to/3VRJtAY

[@martyn1678]

you didmt show us the micro adjustment feature

[@sedgetool]

good point...

[@rickbyno2401]

Great video but you did not talk about the micro adjustment

[@sedgetool]

My bad

[@Dunechsr]

Did I miss setting the front scale to 5mm ?

[@sedgetool]

Possibly

[@LH-sk8bl]

If you look at his other hand it seems like he holds the machine down on the rail so it's in the correct position, then let's the scale slide as far down as it goes before tightening it. Took me a minute to figure out as well bit it's of course the simplest possible solution.

[@Dunechsr]

Thank You

[@suleymansekman2697]

I reckon Festool can do better about of track tilting issue! like makita!

[@sedgetool]

ok

[@roofermarc1]

Nice. Do all those parts come with the LR32? I have the correct track with the holes in it for cabinets but no LR32

[@sedgetool]

Yes they do

[@thewoodshop69]

How many guide rails is on that wall? $$$$$

[@sedgetool]

Quite a few

[@MMMS75]

Feels excessively complicated for something like that? If you have any the kind of money for tools like this, then you probably have a pretty good router table that makes this easier. Especially on shorter pieces. Maybe if you’re doing this on really long pieces? I have a $20 baseplate adapter for my Dewalt hand held router which attaches to my Makita track and does a great job and has little to no complexity to setup.

[@KyleHohn]

Weird design from the normally brilliant Festool. The Milwaukee guide rail adapter has a much more elegant design. No weird half on half off the rail.

[@sedgetool]

ok

[@murphyrp01]

Nice video. Yet again I am pissed with Festool. Sledge you say the stops are included with your track saw. Well not here in Australia. I expect they will sell for a $100 or more. They are such an insidious ripoff company that simply price gouges.

[@sedgetool]

wow.... Thanks for sharing......

[@ilyass221]

It was not on the center!!!!!

[@sedgetool]

Thanks..my eyes are getting worse

[@ZenithsCipher]

dude, I don't know what type of woodworking you guys doing, that dado is nowhere close to your marking line. It is off by at least 1mm.

[@sedgetool]

Thanks.... it was just a demonstration...when we are building we can set it up dead on.....

[@ZenithsCipher]

@@sedgetool I am sure you can! I was just joking around like a jerk lol. Big fan of your videos!

[@bobaverage]

Zoom out dude

[@sedgetool]

OK