Festool MFS Fence System Instruction Manual page 36

never had a 1000 or 1010 router bog
down no matter what I was routing.
All you need to do now is just drop the
router plate into place and start using it.
Total time? The first time you do it, it will
take you 20 to 30 minutes start to finish,
after that no more than 15 minutes all be-
cause the MFS profiles make a first rate
template in a hurry and one that sits flat
and secure on top of your
work piece.
The photos here don't show it
but I held the work piece, the
plywood that held the work
piece off of the table top, and
the template, all three with
one Festool "F" clamp
mounted from below the table
engaged into the bottom "T"
track on one of the MFS pro-
files. That way there was
nothing in the way of the
router and nothing shifted on
me either.
You can make a similar tem-
plate for applications like this
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with scrap sticks, but doing
so is usually not as fast,
not as safe, nor as accu-
rate.
The picture below shows
everything, the router plate
we started with, the MFS
template, the Festool
clamps that held everything
secure, one of the routers
we used, the dust collec-
tion, the guide bushing and
straight bit, and, still
mounted in the router, the
flush trim bit along with the
finished work piece itself.
If you look closely at the picture to the left
you will see that I did not have a 1" di-
ameter flush trim bit of the correct length
to match the 1/2" radiuses used on this
router plate so the radius cut is a bit
smaller. This doesn't hurt anything and
doesn't effect how snugly the router plate
is held so it would not bother me. But, if