A Router Table - The Right Way Up

The WoodRat acts as a router table, profiling any length of work with the advantage of having the router the right way up. Now it's easy and comfortable to set your router and to see your cut.

This means you can create all your decorative and funtional profi les, grooves and rabetts. And loosing that router table frees up much needed space.

To keep the wood against the fence, the 'Rat uses a simple brush, acting as a featherboard, clamped beneath the cutter. This allows variable pressure and no kick back. It's low-tech, b ut it works very well. You can use all your existing bits except for large horizonal panel raisers. The WoodRat raises panels using vertical bits with the wood clamped upright.

“Impressively precise.. offers exceptional cutter control”

Fine Woodworking

“It is an extremely clever instrument, having both precision and finesse.”

Michael Williams (Customer)

Sliding Dovetails Make Shelves In Minutes

A real pain by hand, impossible on a router table, the 'Rat makes this essential joint with ease and with absolutely no breakout. This means you can make incredibly strong shelves in no time. You can even put legs on tables.

The housing (dado) is cut with the workpiece clamped under and across the Plate. To cut the tenon, the wood is tracked through the cutter, held in the Cam Clamp.

Dado (Housing) Joints can also be made in this way, but Sliding Dovetails are much stronger and just as simple to make.

“Well made, versatile & easy to master”

Woodworkers Journal

“I've had my WoodRat set up now for about two weeks, the machine is simply amazing. The joinery process in our shop has been cut by half.”

Liam Martin of M&M Carpentry (Customer)

“I'm producing accurate tenons with the cleanest shoulders this side of woodwork heaven, neat mortises, elegant dovetails etc. etc. A great way to tame the beast that is an unharnessed route r.”

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“For me the WoodRat would pay for itself used solely for tenoning”

Paul Richardson, American Router

Mortises & Tenons Without The Hassle

The 'Rat is both a Mortiser and a Tenoner. Because there's no machine bed, Mortises can be carefully placed in all kinds of awkward pieces. Add the PlungeBar (sold separately) and you can easily plunge a row of neat holes and then track the wood to make a slot mortise. A simple shop-made Mortise Rail holds the wood horizontal across the machine. Or, you can opt for the Aluminium Mortise Rail with added features.

Tenons are a WoodRat specialty, deep, square and breakout free. The 'Rats manual powerfeed gives the wood to the cutter on the down-cut, giving a perfect edge to every joint. The size of tenon is set using simple stops so accuracy and repeatability are assured. Forget, M&T jigs, Router Tables and Band Saws, the 'Rat wins hands down.

The WoodRat "Left-Right" registration

WoodRats unique 1- in-9 slope dovetails

The biggest and the smallest WoodRat dovetails

Beautiful Dovetails You Control

As well as being the best way to joint two boards, Dovetails are the perhaps the most elegant and pleasing of all joints. Maybe that's why they've been used for more than 4000 years! Unfortunately, todays range of dovetail jigs do them little justice. For the most part, they look machine made and there are countlesss restrictions on how the joint is laid out and what wood can be used.

Not so with the WoodRat. You can now make any kind of dovetail, through, lapped or secret, using our fine HSS bits to make a joint any craftsman would be proud of. We use a unquiqe method of left-right registration where the tail sockets become a templatre for the pins. Thus you get 100% accuracy, repeatability and there are no teplates to buy, no fingers to adjust and no guidebushes. You can put your joints anywhere you like. You can join wafer thin boards with tiny dovetails or 2" x 30" boards with massive dovetails.

If you are serious about making dovetails, the WoodRat is your clear choice.

“An excellent dovetailer capable of producing the finest joints”

Andy Standing, The Woodworker

“I am blown away with your creation. It is by a long way the best routing and dovetailing platform that I have ever come across.”

Victor Ravensdale (Customer)

Joints can be mass produced saving time

WoodRat dovetails next to those made with a conventional jig

Drawer-Front Dovetails Look Hand Cut

Pull out a door from an antique chest and you'll probably see a charming row of ultra-fine hand-cut dovetails. Compare these to the blocky joints in a modern mass-produced drawer and the difference is clear, but who has time to hand-cut dovetails?

Now you can have the best of both worlds. Fine elegant joints with the speed of a jig. The WoodRat is the only machine to make drawer-front dovetails that closely match classic hand-cut needle-pins.

The sides can b e cut in batches for mass production runs (shown left).

“Money spent will be returned in spades”

Popular Woodworking

“I am completely thrilled with it. It is a very impressive machine and the ideas of things I can do with it are piling up in my head, I can't explore them fast enough.

Dennis Tudman (Customer)

“Thank you for the WoodRat. I love it.”

Duncan Buchanan (Customer)