Home based bread making is big business (or at least a ridiculously popular hobby). Put your own spin on it by creating bespoke bow style bread knives with the help of this handy template. It's compatible with the standard 10.8" / 275mm long bread knife blades available all over Amazon. Simply shape your wood with this template, sand and finish, then attach the blade. Wait until the foodies see your creations.
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 76 reviews.
I think I pretty much have all the templates Crafted Elements sells - well maybe not all, BUT the ones I do have are just the best you can get. Very easy to use, so many varieties; and they ship to me from Canada in an amazingly short period of time. Highly recommend them. For me they are very reasonably priced. So, I will be reviewing all that I do have, so this review may look repetitious, except if I need to annotate something other than perfection in the mold and templates I do have.
These will work great at my upcoming craft show.
Received quickly, well packaged, very good quality. The little extra gift was very kind and goes a long way to connect with customers.
Thank you, will order again !
Brilliant product. This is a replacement for one that i wore out. You cant go wrong with these guys and girls at Crafted Elements. Thank you for the little gift
I’ve used templates to make over 10 bread knives. They have all came out great. I like the quality of all the templates I’ve bought from Crafted Elements.
I enjoy most of the product line you offer. I like the shape of this template. I have a increased request in bow bread knives and eager to use this, and see how it works for me.
I believe the handle should be a bout 2 inches longer to accommodate people with larger hands. we had recently purchased a bread cutting bow knife and the handle is approximately 5" in length. Which is comfortable to handle.
The only thing I would change is that I wish the handle was a little longer. With that being said, I am a kind of a bigger fella with big hands. I'm fairly sure that it would work great for those with "normal" sized hands. The whole tariff thing going on at the time delayed delivery a little while but that's the fault of higher powers and not the company. I will definitely be ordering more templates in the future.
Worked well then i used my 1/4 inch flush trim bit. But when i used the new 1/2 inch ultimate trim bit I just bought for almost 200.00 it jumped and cut a gap in the side of the top long part . If you check my orders you will see I have order another one along with two more to make shipping.
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