In the second of three tests of tools available from Wood Workers Workshop, Jonathan Salisbury looks at this handy routing aid.

Router templates are easy to make from any flat material, and many woodworkers use MDF. The problem with MDF, however, is that it starts to wear quite quickly, with diminishing accuracy the end result. Add a bit of damp, and you have a template that’s far from ideal. Plywood is preferable, but acrylic is better – especially if you have a laser cutter. But if you don’t, there’s the AUKTools Circular Router Inlay Template. Laser cut from clear 10mm thick acrylic, the corners have 30, 40, 50 and 60mm radii and the 12 holes start at 30mm diameter and increase in 5mm steps, all the way up to 85mm.

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