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can you do a video on the kapex 60? There isn't as much content on it as on the 120 and I love your reviews!
Now you have VWS. Vertical Wall Syndrome.
Dang it
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technically the jimmy pin is just a shelf support peg
So it's $40 for a sheet of plywood, but $35 for an entire router... what a time to be alive
I'm afraid it's far worse. $40 for a QUARTER sheet (2'x4')
And wood is regrowing, routers not. Think about it ...
@slartibartfass5729 The size of the trees that are used for veneers take decades to grow 😮
Wood has government code requirements and inspection. Lots of prices
And factor in Chinese state subsidy propping up their manufacturing industries
This was a pure joy to watch. The info-sarcasm with bingo style cultural references mixed with ‘yootoober’ criticism on UA-cam sponsorship is perfect for my ADHD. There’s a lot here for me to unpack. Loved it! I’m going to watch it again and again.
I started with a piece of wood clamped to the edge of the bench. But 20 years ago trim routers were almost exclusively for laminate trimming, and I had a full-sized router. Rather than an insert plate, I mounted the router directly to the bottom of the board. I also had a screw hole for a start pin.
That was an introduction to what a table-mounted router can do. I designed and built my router table after that.
And it's immune from HSS because it slides under my main workbench table.
My router has 2 bases. I mounted the fixed base to the table, and use the plunge base for taking it off the table. It's very easy to clamp/unclamp the body into the other base.
love that
I legitimately don’t care if people say that links are in the description. As long as they’re not shilling you’ve gotta make a living!
Seeing something built that didn’t exist until you drew it is truly satisfying. My first project was a fuel storage tank jet mix system at a small refinery in Memphis when I was working a co-op engineering student. It is definitely a rush.
thats really cool!
My dust collection for all my dust making tools is the rest of the world outside my shop. I simply work outside and do something else when the weather doesn’t cooperate . Of course I’m retired and don’t do production.
If you ever build a shop have an outside section covered but open.
This is great! I’ve searched in the past for a router base that includes dust collection. That and the Jimmy Pin?! Game changer!
Jimmy says thank you
Not to burst your bubble sir but rockler sells that exact piece you’re talking about is one of a kind for trim routers it’s called the “Dust Right Edge-Routing Dust Port” it’s been around for about 4 years
I saw it but I think it's only for large routers?
@@wittworksit’s for trim routers primarily and even offers tool less attaching. It’s universal and can attach to any router base (or plate) with a 1-1/4” opening.
@@techguy38 It does mount via an ring you insert through the throat, so it's a bit different. Regardless, I put in my order for the Wittworks one. :)
Hahaha
This is where counter top sink cutouts get saved from dumpster many times.
Good solid stuff, always smooth, and easily stacked away modified.
Cheers and thanks for reviewing cool stuff, and good looking shop.
That makes it easy to have fun in any direction.
Dude, you solved your HSS in the most superfluous manner, filling any horizontal surface with a tracksaw.
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@@wittworks superfluous was the wrong word, awesome is the word I was looking for.
Haha
Maybe you could also make a “blank” router base kit for those of us whose router didn’t make the cut. I wouldn’t mind drilling my own mounting holes 🤔
That's a great idea! Done. I already made an option on the page (but will need some time for a photo). Which model do you have?
Yep, I didn’t know what HSS was, but darned if I didn’t have a chronic case. Thank you for being persistent in designing a router table for those of us who would sure like, and only occasionally need, one. The dust extraction for a trim router is genius. I own a screw on extractor that fits on top, but it’s not very efficient. I like yours much better. I’m also addicted to your sarcasm & poking fun at “I have skills superior to yours” UA-cam “actors” (even though I sometimes still watch them anyway - usually w/ the volume turned way down low). Oh, and how did I combat my HSS? Three words: French Cleat Wall. Let the haters hate, but building shop furniture is a real skills builder IMHO. Sincerely, Another Satisfied Subscriber. BTW, your 3D-printed track saw blade port cover (?) & track end protectors work great. Thanks for designing them.
How dare you mute Jason Bent. His ego will never recover.
I have 40x48 barn that is full of horizontal surfaces. I regularly have to move stuff off one onto another so I can use my tablesaw, radial arm saw, sliding miter saw various smokers. HSS is in full swing. I once had 16 ft. bench that I cut in half and gave one half away to deal this disease.
we need a group
Just purchased the trim router base and dust collector. Brilliant! Exactly what I've been searching for. Thank you.
Glad I could help!
I've been shopping for router tables, this was gold thank you.
thank you
Hey, Izzy Swan is going to be pissed he didn't come up with this first.
Haha. I showed it to him a month ago and he may have cussed.
@@wittworks OMG, that's so funny. 🤣
Amazing idea on the vac attachment. Great vid overall. I love you had the Hooked on Wood T square! Great to see woodworkers supporting each other.
Thanks! Bought it as soon as I saw his video. It’s great.
I really enjoyed your personal trim router journey, the evolution and iterations of your router bases, HSS table mounted router tops, and how you swung for the fences with pitching your product invention. Honestly, I didn't think this video was going to promote a product however, If I am going to watch a "product based woodworking video" I would rather it be in this vein instead of someone acting as if they believe in a product they had no hand in actually making and/or truly stand behind while wanting to profit from it. You showed us all how struggles in the shop can lead to solutions and how the possibility of those solutions can turn into inventions that can work for others. Good for you Drew!
Thanks. I struggled with the pitch. V1 didn't even have a pitch and some friends told me to just be bold and offer it without shame. I love it and believe in it, so why not offer it?
@@wittworks its and outstanding idea! Keep making!
I may never buy one, but I appreciate all the work you put into them!
"Never say never" - Justin Bieber
Mind blown at that dust extraction idea . Brilliant
I use X-Fasten double sided tape. It's specifically made for woodworking and never leaves residue after it's pulled up. Great vid Drew!
thanks! I got some a few months back to try out
@@wittworks did you like it? I find it to be very good and not expensive. 3 rolls of 1in is like 20 bucks on Amazon
Witt - I love ingenuity and the bottom mounted panel to make an MFT jig based on your own MFT is a nice move.
This is brilliant timing! I built a table last summer that defaults as a miter table, but the miter mount can be swapped out. The next thing to build is a router insert and you just walked through all of my half baked thoughts in wonderful detail.
Suh-weet innovation. I don't even understand this "routing" and "woodworking" you speak of, but I feel compelled to buy this kit. Here's the rub though - if we all buy this and you are making oodles of manufacturing tycoon money, will you slow your UA-cam output?!? That would be a tragedy - we need our regular WittFix!
More money will help me hire an in person assistant and editor this improving my output. So you should buy a 10 pack.
Your videos are so good. Your last name being Witt is so appropriate. Thank you for them
Awesome video! Loved the story telling you did, showing your design process, some mistakes and all the special details you were thinking about! Great work :)
Thanks a bunch!
That trim router vac attachment is genius
i agree!
Great video, especially the roll out of your first invention. I’m not a trim-router-size-guy. I got a 3hp plunge makita. But I applaud the ingenuity and ambition
Cool, thanks
Dude, your vids, especially this one, are not only simple, informative and easy to understand and follow but also bloody hilarious. Thank you very much for such and awesome vid, buddy
I appreciate that!
I am looking closely a quite common "Disk Brake Caliper slide pin"... IT JUST LOOKS "PERFECT" for using directly as a "Jimmy pin" without any need to order it or having special order made for me... it already has the male thread on one end, and an hexagonal recess for an allen key or bit on the other, and a perfectly smooth cylindrical surface along it, plus the ideal lenght! The ones I use are for VW brakes, which Calipers are either the FS III or FN 3 Calipers, as the pins for both are usable for our Router table guide pin.
Very nice.
Best commentary I've experienced on any wood working channel glad I found you 🤙🏻
Fantastic, can’t believe how brilliant that dust collection is!
thanks
You're one of the most interesting and underrated creators on UA-cam. Keep up the good work and congrats on your cool invention.
thanks
I have a home-made table built into my cheap table saw. It means that I have a ready built fence, and I have been astounded by the amount of use I have made of it - I use it almost as much as the table saw. I have been making a lot of doors and drawers recently!
I used a Bosch plunge router, and made a lift mechanism from a ratchet clamp, which worked surprisingly well.
The loss of cutting depth is a slight problem, but extenders are available (mine is from Trend), and I haven't found that I need to use it very often.
Good stuff. BTW my router table started life as a Formica double sink cutout.
The way a table saw can rocket a chunk of wood at the user’s head if it catches a bind terrifies me! Mitre saws are my fav, routers are catching up now that I’m learning the tricks. (Thank you for that.)
Stand strong, fellow HSS sufferer.
Just a clarification: OSB is not "crappy". It must meet all of the strength requirements of veneer plywood. Yes, the surface is not super smooth, but that can be solved by sanding.
I made a portable router table like this about 15 years ago. I smooth sanded the OSB in a drum sander and gave both sides a coat of Sealcote shellac, then waxed. It still works just
fine, and has not warped or split. Mine is for a Milwaukee 1-1/2hp router.
I agree with you that HSS is a highly contagious ailment!
Thanks. I was surprised how smooth you can get that crap.
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this is an absolutely fantastic idea
You must be so proud of this! Brilliant everything and good job thinking of everything.
I will say I do have a full size woodpeckers router table, but I got it off marketplace for $125… it gets used maybe 3 times a year
you're ahead of the game!
I have 2 Bora Centipede stands, when I first saw them I thought they were a joke, now I love them !!
I know, right!
Drew GREAT video...amazing story teller as always.
Thanks!
Your movie quote/ad read is brilliant.
thanks, I'll forward your comment to Shopify 🥳
As one Drew to another Drew, AWESOME JOB MAN!!!! So one little factoid on your dust extraction, Festol is the same size Ryobi uses. Which is a royal pain and I have 3d printed adaptors for all my stuff. I am in a one car garage, so my Festol is permently hooked up to the sawdust King, aka my CNC. But I use my 18v Ryobi Shop vac for other dust extraction. So Thank you for making yours the right size unlike everybody else
Thanks for the info!
Your attention to detail on your products are amazing the slight bend on your dust collection the jimmy holder with that ever so satisfying klick so well done Drew thanks for posting my only wish you’d drop more Content it always a pleasure to watch
thanks! unfortunately the attention to detail to the videos means I can only produce 1 every 4-6 weeks without burning out
@@wittworks quality is always worth the wait
Great model for marketing honest products
Your narration style is awesome!!! Keep up the good work!
Great work Drew. In the words of @Nick Offerman, I picked up my acoustic guitar, plucked a cowboy tune, and sang "We buy gear with our filthy lucre!"
Order sent.
so great! thank you! Fort Worth for the win.
Holy cow! No wonder you were able to make a living with UA-cam. I want all the things you showed! This is like a masterclass in inventing products to solve a need.
Glad UA-cam put this in my feed. Great video and amazing product.
Not ready yet but will def be picking this up when I get my workshop layout and bench done.
Thanks for awesome content!
I love the dust collection though I believe festool has something similar don’t they? The hose is on top but there is a shroud underneath to collect the shavings like yours. So I wonder if it’s different enough to get a patent
I set up my trim router with your kit and was about to trim the edges of a large box I just built. This was my first use and I was excited to NOT have chips all over the place. The problem is that the box is over 8 inches deep and so I cannot use the vacuum attachment as it can only handle, what 1 1/2" or so of thickness. That's something I think should be mentioned in the video or on your site.
This is the year of creation. John's shop shades, the bourbon blade, and Witts trim router dust collection. I can't afford it all.
As for the question about which tool I'm most weary of, it's high speed sanders. There's a couple of reasons - 1 - anything with a blade is obviously sharp, while sanders are deceptive and don't appear to be as dangerous, so it's easy to take them for granted. - 2 - I've had sanders throw more materials & kick-back more than bladed items, which can put your body parts in harms way. I have taken off several finger pads in the past & nearly took off my thumb when an orbital sander kicked back and flung itself in the air. The edge of the high-spinning sand paper cut my thumb down to the bone. All around, cut-resist gloves are one of the more valuable accessories in my shop.
For your information, I have seen trim routers with dust extraction, but it’s still a great idea 😊
do they have the source hose at the bottom? they all have them at the top and dont work great
No you are right, I haven’t seen any that attach to the bottom of the router like yours. I saw Dewalt have one that looks pretty solid. Good luck with your extractor 😃🌹
Just ordered the base for the Milwaukee i don’t even have yet.
If your gonna be a bear be a Grizzly 😂
that's awesome. Thank you. Never heard that quote! 🐻
My grandmother used to say that all the time. Love it
Fellow HSS suffererrrer here. Will you offer the new Trim Router Base 1000 Pro for the Flex Router?
Yes
I used an panel from an old kitchen cabinet. the smooth surface worked great.
oh yeah!
I love the fact you have 600 track saws. Can never enough!
Great idea, I have a Bosch aluminum router tabletop and I'll do something like this to my miter saw table!
Pica-Dry! My favorite too.
Love ingenuity. Well done, respect and instant fan.
So I am scratching my head on this one... closest thing I've seen is the Festool system but that still captures dust from above. The only real hole I could poke is that it has the potential to be less stable because the hose can place a torque on the router since it is out of plane with your hand. Are there any other disadvantages with your approach? So far I like it!
thanks. the only disadvantage I've found is if your routing a specific radius the opening of the attachment won't clear it - but that's pretty niche
Fantastic! from video quality to content quality!
Cool idea and well built but a lot of work for us regular folk…to save myself a weekend in the shop, I took an old cheap bench top router table I got for like 99 bucks 20 years ago (I think it’s a ryobi back when they were still team blue ), removed the legs and instant portable router table. The fence that came with it works and there is T track already in the table for accessories. Took 10 minutes to convert. When I need it I pull it off the wall and set it on some cheap saw horses. It has a 1.0 HP router permanently attached to it that’s powerful enough to do any job I need it for. 10 years of use in a small shop, it certainly helps reduce the horizons real surface clutter.
That's a brilliant attachment.
thanks
😂😂😂 the sawdust covering the mess up got me
That trimVac is mindblowing and I'm so proud of you for hitting that 100k!
Thanks!
Great video. Nice design on that dust collector, looks like it works very well.
"I can't believe no one's done this yet."
That's what I say about literally every improvement I'm making in my 45 YO house.
And still I have not yet come up with a marketable idea for any tool like this.
Great idea! My scariest machine is a Grizzly 1026 3HP shaper. Bought in August 2019 for $995. Got it all set up, but haven't run one piece of wood thru it. I suspect some cost savings were achieved at the expense of the safety guards. It should ship with a kevlar apron and ballistic face shield. Been grabbing the DeWalt 625 and just going free-hand for now.
3hp shaper! That’s some serious HSS
I’ve never been prompted to behave in the comments before. That’s really awesome, if you don’t have anything nice to say, maybe don’t say anything. I really enjoyed the video, but I threw down about 5 months ago and bought the woodpeckers router table and fence system. Which I absolutely do not regret purchasing 😍🥰
I am sorry for your wallet 😜
Just a quick mention since you have thought of everything, what about attaching that dust collection adapter with magnets. Should be pretty easy to install magnets on both the router plate and the adapter. Bennett would go on and off in a fraction of a second and also come off in the event that you dropped the router
That was the first thought. We moved on from it for security reasons and in the event someone was using the router in general and went over a screw or something in material - wouldnt want the magnet to be pulled
¡Brilliant idea! By the way. a nice way to show how it really works with many imprecations. But in the end, it works.
You are incredibly funny - I love your HONEST narrative and tips.
15:50 jointer ever was and probably will ever be the most respecful used tool i'm working with
it can change your life before you realize it!
Your ideas seem nice, your videos are cool, your word flow amazes me and puzzles me at the same time!
mission accomplished
@@wittworks not mine?!
Oops already bought one.. no worries have had OSS much before woodworking. Thanks for the laughs
haha thank you
@@wittworks oss is open surfce syndrome...
fantastic dust extraction concept. Id love for you to open source for non commercial then sell manufactured versions to retail and online!
Schamfer LOL. Thanks for your videos, we UK blokes love them.
Thanks mate
The router hose mount is awesome.
Yeah I am still surprised how well it works
I have to admit, this is pretty slick. I hate cleaning up the floor after using my Makita trim router.
yep, that was part of the inspiration
@@wittworks the bane of a woodworker’s existence.
Ah, if only I had a router, or a shop, or a garage, or any woodcrafting tools at all, I'd order this right now. Great work.
Thank you very much!
Fantastic video Drew. That trim router base is sick! Well done!
Glad you like it!
Table saw still gives me nightmares/insomnia...i respect the heck outta the table saw...
made my router table from an old microwave cart and the piece of laminate countertop cutout for the kitchen sink. Of course, I had to put some bracing on the underside to support the weight of the router. Also, hardly anyone has these cutouts anymore because they want fancy countertops and postform/formica are rarely used. Besides that, the microwave cart is practically extinct.
Did you send Erik Curtis the OSB subscriber plaque? Feel like that would go up right next to his one of a kind Japanese saw
it will be in the mail soon. best part is, he doesn't know about it
Boom. You sir got yourself a new subscriber. Quite a good stuff you present us! Thank you !!
Great video Drew!! Love the Easter eggs! Keep making great content and products!
Thank you 🐣
I'll be that guy. The Jimmy pin probably could have just been a brake caliper slide pin. lol
LOL, Jimmy currently printing a million trim router dust collectors.
HSS, I knew I had it, just didn't know what it was named lol. Great video, great router table.
Thanks! 👍
Thank you for including the Bauer routers from Harbor Freight! Hope to buy a kit soon!
You bet!
i been doing this for years with my M18 cordless for building speaker boxes
Total Boat Baby!!!
"Keith, wrong channel"
lol that had me rolling
This is brilliant, and exactly what I've been looking for. Booking one! Thx.
When you first mentioned “HSS” I thought it was going to stand for “He Said So” lol.
nice video i literally just bought a full size router table for the workshop lol but love watching these ideas being made... was super exited to order the clear makita base with trim home kit but damn i can't do £96 :(
Another great video and outstanding new product. Hope you do well with it and I'll probably order one (even though I have the large router table that's covered with stuff). Lots of great tips sprinkled through as well. Appreciate all your doing. - Chris
thanks! I hope you defeat HSS
I can probably defeat HSS if I could overcome hoarding and buying tools that I don't need .