Precision Joinery Made Simple

The original router-based joinery system. Cut dovetails, mortise & tenon, and more - with precision and repeatability.

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WHAT IS WOODRAT

WoodRat is a precision 3-axis control system that mounts your plunge router, transforming it into a versatile joinery machine capable of cutting virtually any joint in wood.

WHAT CAN YOU MAKE

WHY WOODRAT

One system, endless joints

No CNC required

Repeatable accuracy

Built to last

Start with the Essentials

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PlungeBar™ (all types)

£39.00

The hand-held router was invented in the early nineteen fifties and not much has happened to them since since. They, still need two hands to operate them in a router table where they get put upside down, where you cannot read the depthing scale. There are many types of windey handle to avoid pushing up on the two handles, but none as neat and quick as Woodrat’s PlungeBar. Squeeze the bars to raise the router and lock it off with one hand while you check the depth with the other. Or forget the router table and have it the right way up in a WoodRat.

It makes a clean and efficient mortiser – not as deep as a chisel mortiser, but a lot more nimble, and you have the ability to track the work with finesse…. and cut slots at exact intervals, in any length of workpiece.

There is a PlungeBar for most models of router. Festools and difficult to accommodate as they skew the fixing points and there is not much to hang onto, and the Triton has its own raising and lowering hand wheel which conflicts with bars.

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Musclechuck™

£70.00

Musclechuck™ quick change router collet. Made in the USA. Comes with 4mm allen key.

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Mitre Box MB3

£65.00

The Mitre Box fits firmly into the Cam Lock and holds work at any angle to the cutter. You can use it to make mitred (secret) dovetails, mitred laps or even hold table-legs horizontal to cut sliding dovetails. The Mitre Box is also used for holding small pieces horizontal above the reach of the cam clamp.