Routing wooden bezels?

[flanajb]

Have worked out how to route small diameter circles on the router table, but am struggling to deduce how I route the inner edge of the bezel once I have routed the outer edge on the table.

Anyone have any tips or know a way of doing this?

 

[andersonec]

How big is it? if small then use some hand screw clamps (if you have any) to hold the work piece and a small bearing guided cutter, on a inside circle and if using a router table the work piece must turn against the cutter in a clockwise direction.

Andy

 

[flanajb]

How big is it? if small then use some hand screw clamps (if you have any) to hold the work piece and a small bearing guided cutter, on a inside circle and if using a router table the work piece must turn against the cutter in a clockwise direction.

Andy

If I use a bearing template cutter then I need a template? The outer edge can be cute without a template by securing the piece to a board and then rotating the piece until I have a circle.

 

[carlb40]

How big is it? if small then use some hand screw clamps (if you have any) to hold the work piece and a small bearing guided cutter, on a inside circle and if using a router table the work piece must turn against the cutter in a clockwise direction.

Andy

If I use a bearing template cutter then I need a template? The outer edge can be cute without a template by securing the piece to a board and then rotating the piece until I have a circle.

Do the same for the inner circle doing it in steps, just leave it say 1mm from the top surface and then cut through with a knife and sand the last bit off by hand.

 

[MMUK]

Personally, I would rout the inner first and then the outer

 

[Richard S]

If they are small diameter circles surely it would be safer and quicker to drill the centre hole with a Forster bit.

 

[Spindle]

Hi

Fit two guide pins to either the router base or the side fence - use these pins against the outside circumference to guide the cutter on the inside.

Regards Mick

 

[rafezetter]

Just by accident I came across this tool today - a cyclone attached to a circular saw..

https://www.canadianwoodworking.com/video/sponsored/roan-dust-collecting-circular-saw

 

[Richard S]

Very interesting Rafezetter, not sure it helps the op of this thread though, did you mean to place it in one of the current threads on dust collection further down the board?