Routing Circles
There are all sorts of ways to cut circles out of plywood or solid timber in your workshop. In my workshop, the bandsaw and jigsaw jump to the front. The problem is that they both leave you with rough edges to contend with. I don’t mind sanding and smoothing curved edges, but there’s a way to avoid all of that work — your router. Well, your router and a trammel.
As you see in the photo above it doesn’t always have to be a fancy set-up to give you a perfect circle with a finished edge. This simple trammel is nothing more than a piece of Masonite with a block glued to it. The block has multiple pivot holes for predefined circle sizes.
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The trammel you see on the next page is dandy if you need to make large circles and curves. It’s easy to build, inexpensive and can be
