Milescraft 1212 SignPRO Sign Making Kit for Routers- 2.5 in. & 1.5 in. Horizontal Letters (166 templates), 1.5 in. & 2.5 in. Vertical Numbers (80 templates) - 3/8 in. Router Bit Included- Complete Kit

This is a great piece of kit,I made a perfectly good sign on a piece of oak on the first attempt. Easy to put together and use.I watched a milescraft “how to”video first and with a bit of practice the signs will Look professionally made.l shall enjoy using this and it will pay for itself in no time. Setting up ,like most things takes the time ,and taking care in operation.Be careful not to catch the plastic templates It would be even better with symbols etc .For sample I would like to make direction signs. I have now made an arrow template for this cut from an old plastic/vinyl sign.

The service is very good. Very easy to set up.. It comes with everything you need except the router. I would recommend this sign writing equipment. It. 's make sign writing much easier.

This is a very comprehensive kit and with every thing you are likely to need in the box, sadly the part that fits on the router would not fit the three I have and had to buy another one that would. The results are pretty hit and miss on some of the letters N R B are a bit dodgy so be prepared to do trials on scrap wood before attempting anything decent , with practice you should be able to achieve good results for basic signs.

Very impressed with the quality and ease of use. Also produces excellent results. Really good value for money imo.

Great product fast delivery service 👌

would definitely recommend

You get lots of parts for your money but when you start to use it you'll quickly realise that its actually very cheaply made and very fiddly to assemble and use, letters do not sit securely in the frame and the router guide doesn't fit Dewalt cordless router without some modifications. Supplied router bits have gone blunt very quickly. If this sold for £30 I'd recommend it, but at £99 it's really not worth it.

Something for DIY-ers. Help make some simply sign. Need some training.

I have been using the Rockler Interlocking lettering kit for several years with excellent results but found them a little tedious to use. I saw the Milescraft kits and liked what I saw . I also saw mostly good reviews but some bad reviews but went ahead and ordered the kit along with extra lettering. I had already watched a couple of videos on how to use the Milescraft and after unpacking the kit went right to work making signs. The kit comes with a router base plate with many holes to fit many different routers, including mine. The reason for the new base is because the kit used the Milescraft nose bushing that fits into the letter templates. I have a complete kit of nose bushings that work with my existing base and one of them was exactly the same as the Milescraft bushing. Consequently, I went ahead and used my existing base and nose bushing. If you plan on buying a complete set of Milescraft nose bushings then you would need to use this base plate since each bushing interlocks with the base. Compared to my bushing set the interlocking set would be nice if you want to quickly change bushings. Here are some Milescraft to Rockler comparisons: - Lettering Material is pretty much the same, fairly stiff plastic. In both cases I found this to be more than adequate - Rockler interlocks, Milescraft slide into a slotted rail. - Router slides over the Rockler plastic templates, Router slides on Milescraft aluminum rails and does not touch the template + less friction and no chance to hangup on tape with the Milescraft + i found it easier to see what I was doing with the Milescraft + sawdust does not build up in the router with the Milescraft - You must tape the Rockler templates to your work, You clamp the entire Milescraft rail system to your work - tape can leave residue on the work pieces as well as on the letters - Using Milescraft's extra rails you can increase the length of your work area to around 36 inches. Rockler is limited by the number of letters you have. The drawback with Rockler is that long lines of letters becomes unwieldy since you must usually change several letters and make as many as three passes through the line to get complete letters. You are constantly messing with your tape and trying to make sure that you have the correct letter parts installed. With Milescraft you simply string the letters together and route! Letters like A, B, D, O, P, Q, and R require that you maintain the nose bushing against the template to keep from routing out the 'islands'. This was not difficult to do as long as you stay focused. If you are making several signs with the same lettering you simply slide a new board under the Milescraft and route. With Rockler you must un-tape and move the unweildly string of letters. Most letter stings require that you change the template and make multiple passes. This makes the Rockler harder to use. - It is easy to facilitate longer lines of text with Milescraft. I use a 6 foot work area and screwed boards to the work area that are no thicker than my sign material. My sign board slides between the two boards. I align the left side of the Milescraft to the left side of my sign board and use the Milescraft clamp to clamp this end. I then screw the right side of the Milescraft to the boards I attached to the work area. After routing the first set of letters I change the letters in the Milescraft by removing the clamp on the left, remove and replace letters, reattach the base, slide my sign board to the left the appropriate amount, re-clamp the left side and route. I don't do anything with the right side. If you are using sign material that is wider than about 6 inches you can't use the clamps or the extra boards. Instead you will need to figure a way to lock down the rail system. You can use tape which would probably work very well or screws if you don't mind small holes that might need to be filled. This system worked very well for me. When I get to making a sign on a larger work area, for example 2' X 4 ' I will probably attach some material to the turn-lock base plates to increase the width of the plate to accommodate taller material. It may work just as well with good tape. We shall see. - I am going to order another set of rails and rail connectors from Milescraft for $12 which will allow me to extend the lettering length to about 45 inches which will be plenty. I will screw a piece of angle aluminum to the rail connectors with the flat end on my work surface so that I can tape to my work surface to help stabilize the rails. - Some reviewers commented that they had damaged the letters because they were flimsy. If you do not have a plunge router I don't recommend either the Milescraft or Rockler systems because trying to drop the bit onto the work surface with the bit spinning would make it very difficult to get the nose bushing into the slot and very easy to have the bit contact the template. Here is what I do: - with the bit raised and motor off drop the nose bushing into the template slot. - start the motor and press the router into the sign material, lock the router in the down position. - carefully push the router along the template taking care when doing certain letters (mentioned earlier) - Raise the router bit then turn off the motor. - You could lift the router at this time but I like to wait for the bit to stop first. Why don't they make the templates from stronger material? Simply because a carbide bit spinning at 12,000 RPM that hits a stronger surface could be disastrous. If it hits plastic you have just sacrificed the template and possibly saved an eye. An entire set of letters only costs about $10. I can easily recommend either sign making system but think that the Milescraft is much easier to use. If you need to make many signs you will like time saving aspects of the Milescraft system. I am thinking of fabricating a rail system that would accept the Rockler letters if it gets to where I think it might be worth the investment of my time. Us retired folks have so many irons in the fire that we don't have any spare time! Since I now have 4 different lettering sets between the Rockler and Milescraft there are so many options. Good luck with your sign making! Buy the kit, BUT WATCH THE MILESCRAFT VIDEO BEFORE YOU USE IT!

they work great but the N hard to follow

Son aditamentos de excelente calidad muy recomendables

It does not fit my Router???..what is wrong with you negative people this is a 5+ star product. All you do is drill a hole to match the clear plastic base plate and it works like a dream...amazing...it takes a little bit of time but use a sharpie to mark the clear plastic base plate to match your Router and then drill and countersink the holes to take the existing screws from your Router....so simple. Should you be using a Router or woodworking if you cant figure this out???? This a brilliant product and fantastic quality... and I don"t even work for these people and live in Australia...great product ...great service

Le he usado para hacer letreros para senderismo y trabaja excelentemente bien. Fácil de usar y una vez que se familiariza con esta herramienta el trabajo es muy fácil.