Need some inspo to use my OF1400

[Boski]

So firstly, I am a hobbyist but actually love woodworking and am kind of addicted to it. If I am not working on something I am reading and researching. I haven't been doing it long but have picked up a fair bit and also got the Festool bug along the way.

I bought to OF1440 thinking a good router is essential but haven't actually used it on a project yet.

So far my projects have consisted of:

- Full garage racking
- Three planters, each one getting better and different
- Staging for greenhouse
- A big landscaping project with sleepers, trellis sides and roof
- Work bench 
- Cabinet
- Sub-floor in main bedroom
- Changing corrugated plastic roof for garden lean to

I am making a few more cabinets and wanted to use the OF1400 to cut the rails and stiles but was told this won't be possible.

So I am after some ideas what cool stuff i can use the OF1400 for on future projects, as seems a bit of a waste to have such a good piece of kit sitting there?

 

[luvmytoolz]

Welcome to the wonderful world of the Brotherhood of Festool!

The OF1400 is a sensational tool, congrats. Sounds like you enjoy working in the garden, what about upping the ante and make some circular planter boxes using an angled cutter like the pic below?

Make a simple template in some MDF with a jigsaw and make a small border fence with routed edges, and using a template guide ring route an pattern on the faces?

 

[Boski]

Thanks again, don't think the Mrs would let me get away with carving faces lol, but circular planter could be fun

 

[luvmytoolz]

I just put that pic up as an example of the sorts of things you can do. Templates are a simple and amazingly handy way to achieve all kinds of stuff you wouldn't think possible. The pattern I was thinking of for the faces of a low decorative border fence would be something like the below, as just one idea.

Using templates and vee groove or ball nose cutters you could engrave the legs of chairs, doors, panels, etc. The possibilities are endless.

 

[rvieceli]

[member=79993]Boski[/member]

A start might be one of the router books by the late Pat Warner. You'll see a lot examples of things you didn't realize routers could do.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=pat+warner+router+book&crid=1PONAUL9DS3BQ&sprefix=pat+warner+router+book%2Caps%2C111&ref=nb_sb_noss

You may be able to find them cheaper though just search the interwebs for:  Pat Warner router books

Ron

 

[bobtskutter]

You should be able to do rail and style door construction, just don't make them too big.
Try something like thishttps://www.wealdentool.com/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Frame_Jointing_Set_260.html

Cutting circles is an interesting task.
You could make a loose tenon jig.

Happy playing

Bob

 

[Boski]

I just put that pic up as an example of the sorts of things you can do. Templates are a simple and amazingly handy way to achieve all kinds of stuff you wouldn't think possible. The pattern I was thinking of for the faces of a low decorative border fence would be something like the below, as just one idea.

Using templates and vee groove or ball nose cutters you could engrave the legs of chairs, doors, panels, etc. The possibilities are endless.

Got you, yep you are right, didn't realise you can do things like that rose, which is brilliant.

I'll look into it a bit more.

Thanks

 

[Boski]

[member=79993]Boski[/member]

A start might be one of the router books by the late Pat Warner. You'll see a lot examples of things you didn't realize routers could do.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=pat+warner+router+book&crid=1PONAUL9DS3BQ&sprefix=pat+warner+router+book%2Caps%2C111&ref=nb_sb_noss

You may be able to find them cheaper though just search the interwebs for:  Pat Warner router books

Ron

Brilliant - thanks very much for the link.

 

[Boski]

You should be able to do rail and style door construction, just don't make them too big.
Try something like thishttps://www.wealdentool.com/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Frame_Jointing_Set_260.html

Cutting circles is an interesting task.
You could make a loose tenon jig.

Happy playing

Amazing, I was led to believe cutting rails ands stiles wasn't achievable. Not watched the link yet, but will do tonight. 

Bob

 

[luvmytoolz]

Years back I always thought if you could only ever have one power tool, it would have to be a router, as with some ingenuity you can make it serve many roles. You can thickness plane with it, joint edges of timber for glueups, biscuit join, etc, etc, the uses are endless.

In much the same way, template routing opens whole new avenues of artistic and functional work. Granted I used my CNC to make the MDF templates, but before I had a CNC I was doing them by hand, even though it is more difficult. But below is a low table i've been working on and off again for some time now, it's Tasmanian Blackwood with Red Oak inlaid butterflies using the MDF template and a trimmer router.