What do you like to use for router template material? I’ve got to make a lot of architectural brackets for a Victorian and was going to make them out of azek.
Because there’s quite a few and I want them all uniform, I’m going to spend some time and make up all the templates. Luan? Hardboard? Baltic birch? What’s your preference? Thanks.
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MDF it's free of voids.
depends on what type of bit you are going to use. If it were a flush trim bit I'd use hardboard because it's thinner, durable, and easy to work with, if you're going to use a bushing as a guide I'd probably use 1/2" MDF....
If you have Azek laying around I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work.
yep, mdf
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MDF
I've had good luck with lexan... 1/4" all mine was old sign faces... find where the sign shops are and most have a dumpster full of it...
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Lexan, I can sometimes get scraps, from my glass guy, that are big enough to use for templates, sometimes I buy it. I like being able to see through it when I'm lining it up.
BILL
i've got alot of 1/4" lexan scraps.... cool with the transparency
1/4" frosted plexiglass. We've got tons of little chunks around the shop, the frosted is easy to draw or write on, and it machines easily.
zak
"When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone." --John Ruskin
"so it goes"
Not much for templates, but I need different base plates for things. I use those white nylon cutting boards to hold my routers.
Works great & doesn't scratch the finish surfaces.
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I like hardboard or mdf.
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