Router 101: Router basics for absolute, total beginning woodworkers.

Whoa!
Old Steve, no, younger Steve.
Wait, what?

Great info

ROUTER!!!!!!!!!!! YOU GUYS NOW GET TO DO A PROJECKT WITH ME !!!!!!!! ROUTER!!!!! BENGINER ROUTERER WITH MY NEW ROUTER WITH MY ROUTERER TOOL CANT WAIT TO ROUTER ON CUBORDS WITH MY ROUTER

i love how hectic these early vids are.

a yelling and over-emotional host is not helpful

It's like Phil dunphy and Bill Nye wrapped into one guy

He looks like he's on meth 😂

bloody hell, Steve was quite different 11 years ago in how he made the videos

For added fun, watch this at 1.5x speed at least :)

Man....I really wanted to learn about routers but your delivery feels so aggressive with the dives into the camera (my face!) that I can't watch it! Granted I do have past trauma but I have not found it usually affects me when watching you tube videos! Maybe your content is great but I can't watch it, sorry. I genuinely wish you well with it though.

.....I just read your reviews and people are saying how good your info is so I will try again...maybe holding phone much further away!!
Update!...I managed it!....info is great thank you....just the face-dives were pretty hard to be honest! I guess most of your audience though will be fellas who (hopefully) have not been through attacks. Best wishes and thank you for sharing your knowledge. I will try a get hold of a router and table once money allows :)

So energetic haha what happened?

I really appreciate this. I have the same router, so I just needed a quick tutorial. Thank you!

I am brand new to routers. Bought one with a table and a few practice/get to know me bits. The goal is to create baseboards. I was intrigued by the title of this video and all of them like this. The one thing that doesn't seem to be addressed, or I have flat-out missed it, is the affect of stock thickness on the profile that a router bit will/will not produce. This is in part of shopping for router bits where a myriad of sizes/dimensions are given. To a newbie, it is more than confusing.

This question arises from what I came across. I wanted a bit to match the baseboard I installed on our second floor that has since been discontinued. It has a roman ogee profile that is 7/8" long and 9/16" deep. There is a bead detail at the bottom of the profile but I am fine with a fillet/shoulder. The stock is 3/4" mdf. I found a bit with the exact measurements I need (shout out to Yonico (not sponsored or paid)) and it worked flawlessly.

However, I had an idea to go with 5/8" stock because the casings I have are 3/4". I went with 3/4" upstairs because who will see it and I don't really mind it, but I wanted a bit of reveal on the main floor. With the bit in my router and the success I had, I made a test cut on some 5/8" material. To my surprise (at the time) the top edge of the profile was way shy of the 5/16" on my original. Simple, I thought, lower the bit by whatever and that worked but it totally got rid of the fillet/shoulder at the bottom of the profile.

This makes absolute sense to me now (a bit with a 9/16" cut depth on stock that is 10/16" thick is going to look different) but it would really have been useful when I was looking for bits originally. A video or two on how different router bits are affected by different stock thicknesses would help out a lot of us, I think. Thanks

Hi, nice video. I am a home owner and i'm planning to do the woodworking maintenance at home myself and that is mending wooden things that are old and damaged and making new things like wooden cabinets, chairs etc. I'm not planning to start a woodworking business. One week ago i bought a plunge router and it is a heavy beast. Later on i saw the trim router on the internet and i think that would get more use after seen what you can do with a trim router. I'ts also lighter and more maneuverable. Question is do i still need to buy the trim router and keep the plunge router for heavy duty stuff? Or is it a waste of money to buy the trim router? Hope to hear from you soon. many thanks

We're in the second part?

Great i brought. One and dont know how to use it

I own a good router but haven’t even plugged it in yet. I really needed this instruction. BTW,
You’ve changed a lot in
eleven years! 😊

wow he looks younger now.

Man, didn't recognize you at the start, so much energy floating around :D

Thank you for the great explanation! Helps a lot!

I have not used a router since the 90’s and forgot the basics. This video was super helpful, thank you!!

Thank you!!

Thank you so much. I love wood working. I took a class in 1990 in the 8th grade but it wasn't offered in high school. I never got back into it so I'm addressing my bucket list to learn. I'll watch your second video in this series.

At 30 seconds you reference a video of yours I want to find. It's not showing up on my phone but I'll keep looking.

this guy is my bill nye for wood working, thank you sir

Beats the Bosch.

What an idiot

your legacy lives on. very helpful video.

Thanks Steve. You taught me how to woodwork and started me on my journey.

Superb!

Excellent video! You are a really great teacher! I watch all your videos and every one of them is wealth of info and so easy to understand! Thank you so much!

Wonderful. exactly what I needed. I built a work bench and want to work a router table into it. This was an important frst step. Currently, I make lots of very square things :-)

Anyone who does real work for a living you will never and mean not once see them wearing safety glasses and or ear protection just a fact.

Thank you Steve Ramsey! I'd just bought myself a "Black & Decker" router from Argos (in the UK). Never used one before. I found your video on U-Tube and found it very, very helpful indeed. I can now set the machine up correctly, and run it the correct way when cutting. I've only used it once so far, to round off the edge of a piece of scrap wood. It worked great! I just couldn't have done it without your clear instructions. I'll look at your other instructional videos for more guidance. I'm only a DIY er so it's a learning curve for me. I do however fancy having a go at building a guide bench. We'll see! many thanks again Steve. Phil Edwards. Connah's Quay, North Wales. UK.

Remember kids, adderall is meth too!

Anyone else totally ph*cked off with the massively-long 'animated' adverts for... I don't know what... and I'd never buy it *ever*, even if it was something that 'appealed'?!

I made a couple estate sale router purchases and one included a table. When I attach the router to the bottom neither set of screws sit flush at/below the plane of the table. It seems like this might be an issue. Any woodworking peeps out there got an idea what might be going on?

Smoke meth much?

Thank you! I did not know how to attach my router to a table. I think I can do it now

Thats a hilarious video.. like was it your first? I love you.. and your videos I'm always looking for new ones but this one was before you figured out your style so i laughed and laughed even tho i still thought it was full of good information.. love your new vids but now im gonna go looking for a few more of your old vids

Ahhh just the video I was looking for. Brand new to woodworking. Trimming out windows and decided I’d use a router for the window sill. This is very helpful.

Thankyou! Have watched all of the router table videos because I have a craftsman table very similar to yours. I’ve always had the same problem with the fence hole being too big, your idea is simple but perfect!

Holy hell. Great info. But im waiting for the Car bomb commercial.

I like your personality and appreciate your video being on point. So many videos are filled with fluff but this one was perfect!!

great vid very helpful for me and my son who are making a desk

WOW ! Love this guy!!!!!!!

Good video

Oh is not a number. What you meant to say was One zero one or one hundred one. Please redo the video and reupload with the correction.

Subscribed. Excellent tutorial.