Making A Router Sled For Planing

Gather materials and get stoked cause this thing works like a champ 2 x 2 x 4 pieces of mdf wood 1 2 thick.
Making a router sled for planing. How to make a router sled to flatten slabs step 1. Measure your router and router bit. Carefully clamp one inner and one outer rail together. In this video i make super fast and simple router flattening sled for a combo build with mike montgomery from modern builds.
Using a router sled along with a good planing bit is an easy inexpensive way to flatten level and plane live edge wood slabs. Making a simple and cheap router sled for flattening boards and slabs. This jig allows you to joint and plane bigger boards that won t fit in your planer or jointer with help of a router. Cut the rail parts.
Plane your wood slabs with a planing sled that you build step 1. Diy router sled planing flattening leveling live edge wood wild revelation outdoors. Now slowly move onto the surface of the workpiece and make your first cut by slowly passing the router over the surface adjusting it about 3 4 on each pass. Measure your wood slabs maximum width and length.
After that it s time to make passes without being too blatant play a little hard to get. Once you surface one side flip your work over and repeat the process. Cutting the sled parts. Make sure your router bit is away from the surface of the workpiece and turn the router on.
Figure out the maximum thickness of the slab. You want to run the router around the inside of your sled with the base plate making contact with all edges. Start with your wood slabs.