Compensation plates & adapter plates

Routing along an edge is often a shaky affair, especially when the workpiece itself is too narrow to support. In this case, a compensating plate can help to to stabilize the router or to be able to guide it better and more safely. Such compensation plates are available in various designs for most commercially available hand routers.

The 7-in-1 adapter plate from Trend has 7 functions are integrated in a compensation plate. In addition to safe edge processing, the function as a the routing compass for the router and the extended rip fence.