The Romeo & Juliet III set is a miniaturized version of our popular Romeo & Juliet serving board set. This smaller version can be cut out of a single 16x12" board and is perfect for smaller charcuterie boards, or cheese boards.
This unique template set includes TWO acrylic templates to create a nesting Romeo & Juliet style cutting board or serving board set. The handle of the smaller board leans and locks into the crevice of the larger board, creating a nesting set.
We also added a heart that joins in the mid section of the boards when they come together. Awww... how cute.
Crafted Elements Acrylic Router Templates
The Crafted Elements line of laser cut acrylic router templates are precision cut templates designed especially for woodworkers. Unless you have access to a CNC machine in your shop these templates are the easiest, most accurate and most repeatable way to shape wood and wood+resin pieces into things like charcuterie boards, serving trays, handles, functional art and more.
Like our line of maker molds, we designed these templates to save you time and boost production efficiency. These take the guesswork out of shaping and fabricating. By simply pulling one of these clear templates off the shelf and lining it up on your material you’ll instantly know how your final piece will look before you even start cutting and shaping.
We laser cut all of our templates out of long lasting and durable 1/4” thick cast acrylic to ensure the bearing on your router bit has enough surface area to glide on. These templates can be used over and over and will quickly become a go-to tool in your shop.
Reduce errors, inaccuracy and problems with making complex shapes perfectly symmetrical. We even have templates to match many of our awkwardly shaped silicone molds, so you can cut and shape pieces of wood to fit perfectly snug within our molds before you pour your resin.
All you need is a template, flush trim router bit (like this one) and a router table. Even the most basic routers are capable of shaping materials up to 1.5” thick.
Using our templates is easy:
Place the template over your material (usually wood or wood & epoxy resin). Trace the shape of the template onto your piece.
Using a jig saw, scroll saw or a band saw (where appropriate) cut out the rough shape you traced onto your material, leaving between 1/16” and ¼” outside of the perimeter.
Install your appropriately sized flush trim bit into the router in your router table such as the Crafted Elements 1/4" High Performance Spiral Down Cut Flush Trim Bit. Be sure your router bit has a blade long enough for the height of your material. Line up the bearing of your router bit with the acrylic template.
Turn on your router and glide the template along the bearing of your router bit, allowing the router to remove the excess material on your piece, effectively duplicating the shape of the router template.
Carefully remove the template from your material. Remove the two sided tape or hot glue. Sand any leftover residue off of your project. You can use goo-gone or other adhesive remover on the acrylic templates for any stubborn or sticky residue.
We also have a full tutorial on our YouTube channel which you can find posted below:
Customer Reviews
Overall rating: 4.8 / 5 from 33 reviews.
I have a bit to learn about using templates on the router table. Seems easy enough, but I had to cut the cross grain stuff right on the line to prevent the bit from chewing up the wood.
My husband's first experience in using the acrylic templates - he enjoyed the ease of using them. He is looking forward to using the templates ordered.
What can you say other than cute, cute, cute, cute, cute! I created a board from Mahogany, Roasted Ash, Tamarind wood with a black Weng accent and cut the shapes with only a 1/16” clearance b/t the two pieces and they fit like a glove. I’m keeping this one, but using it on my Etsy site to help sell our custom serving board business (as I have so many pieces made from Creative Elements templates.). Nice template to have in your library.
I cut my own template out of 1/2" plywood for these nested boards, but after ordering a few CE templates, I opted to order the smaller "romeo & juliet" template set, to get the much smoother edge. Unfortunately, the heads/handles on the CE templates are HUGE. They just don't feel comfortable in my hand, so an actual board wouldn't either. (The heads on the ply templates I made are roughly 3/4" smaller in diameter, and much more comfortable.)
Percent size, the charcuterie board will be a secret gift for my son and his bride at there wedding. I will also laser there names and wedding date in it as well.
All the templates I received were very smooth cut acrylic. My order was processed and shipped in a reasonable time. I look forward to making use of them
A very nice design. Settled on the blue tape and CA glue
method for a template that does NOT slip. Those double bearing compression bits are spendy, but so great at not going against the grain. I made a spare master copy right away in case I nick the template one day.
This is fun and I'm an ole guy.
I took my first woodwork class last October, aged 68. It has become something of a passion! Moving through the gears as quickly as I could I decided the time was right to do some routing. But, what to make?
Last week I came across this lovely template from Crafted Elements and ordered it on the spot. It was delivered within a few days to Ireland together with a High Performance Template Router Bit - 1/4" Spiral Down Cut Flush Trim Bit.
Both template and router bit are of very high quality. I don't have a router table...just my hand-held Bosch plunge router which I had previously used for a few round-overs. But this was my first serious project and I was delighted by how easy it was to produce two lovely boards.
I highly recommend these products from Crafted Elements.
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