How to Use Wood Routers : How to Cut a Straight Line with a Router

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Uploaded by on Apr 4, 2008

Using a wood router tool to cut straight lines. Learn how to do woodworking with routers in this home maintenance video.

Expert: Kevin Mouton
Bio: Kevin Mouton has spent the last four years making custom, high end, solid wood and veneer furniture for local and national clients out of a shop in Austin, Texas.
Filmmaker: Paul Raila

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  • If you measure from the uneven edge, wouldn't the edge still be uneven (not square) to the rest of the piece?

  • One thing I have learned is you can never trust materials even the ones that are precut from the factory. They could have warped in many ways.

    The way I would have gone and THIS IS THE CORRECT WAYS TO WORK. pick a corner. in case of a non square stock pick the shortest of the 2. mark your guide width you want. put your carpenters SQUARE againt this line. butt the guide piece against this square. this will also check if your guide is also straight. clamp the guide and continue to work. good luck

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  • That's whooping cough! Better get checked out.

  • @GYMMYT I had this problem building my first PC desk, found one board was uneven at the corners by 1/16 of an inch, its hard to notice that if you just measure from corner but when you connect the pieces together, you end up with a mysterious space and then your like...oh shit...

  • hey stupid ,,,how do you expect to finish the cut with your clamp blocking the router ??????

  • Looks like the second clamp is going to block the router base. OH well, it's just an instructional video. I guess it does not really matter.

  • the video froze at 0.00 and its probably the most entertaining image in the video...

  • use a square!

  • What a lame video. Who wants a bunch of text on a video?

  • @seaglassfull turn off closed captions dude!

  • Why is there text on top of your video - I'm not seeing anything of what you're talking about - would love to though:)

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