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: 4.9 / 5 from 34 reviews.
I love the full sized templates. they make the boards look perfect!
Hi, i have made 4 so far and really enjoyed working with them. I don,t do as much as i used to,as i am 87 yrs. old and it takes a little longer than it use to. I still love to when i can. Again thanks for a great product. Regards Neal Roberts.
We like some brass in the boards. THis is 1" brass tube, but not it is from Asia and NOT 1", but it was small and I took a 1" spade bits and ground it down till it was just right..can't do that with a Forstner, so there is a real reason for spade bits.
Templae routing is so much fun.
One more note; We have a Bosch 1617 in our router table.
It has been too noisy and I know its the bearings. Ordered new ones, but got the SKF very, very good ones
The template works great. Especially combining the template with the same mold, it makes for easy setup for pushing some boards out. Super pleased with this.
This was the perfect size for making charcuterie boards that I made to gift to my coworkers. The material is rigid and will take some abuse. Highly recommended.
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