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Making a Circle Jig

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     Have you ever needed to cut a circle? Turns out you can't just freehand that. If you want to cut a circle you need a.... Circle Jig! This handy little thing straps onto a standard router. You stick a pin in one of the little holes for the center, strap a router to the other side and route yourself a circle.

Here's a commercial circle jig. Seems simple enough. Now what if you want this thing -Right Now-? Well then you better have a Laser Cutter and some Acrylic.


Step 1 of the design comes from measuring out the dimensions of the existing router plate. What are those curved holes for? Who knows? But they look cool right?


Starting from a base circle of diameter 1/4 in (size of the router bit) we offset another circle at some whole number of mm to mark the smallest radius we can cut. Then we offset a whole bunch of other circles in 2mm increments. Then add some horizontal lines.


We want to place the center holes at intersections of the horizontal lines and circles. It took forever. And ever. That's a lot of holes.


Then you throw that on the laser cutter and BAM! New Circle jig. Well with some post processing. The laser cutter can't inset the screw holes for attaching this thing to the router. Those were cut with... A router. How about that

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  1. TFSDudeDecember 16, 2014 at 11:05 AM

    Looks great, can you post the DXF or .CB files somewhere?

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  2. UnknownMarch 19, 2015 at 5:38 AM

    hi I 'm from Brazil macapa -ap , I have a router and wish to have the file to print and adapt my router .
    blackgroll@gmail.com

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