Thanks Terry.....Got the base plate done today...yea!!!! Hope to try it out soon thank you so much for the great infoSorry Rout4you, I missed your post,, I used a piece of Plexiglass 1/4 inch thick about 10 or 12 inches square. You remove the base plate that is on your router, and use that as a template to drill the holes in your new large base plate. Remember, you are NOT putting the original small base plate back on,, but replacing it with the new big plate,so you are not really much thicker then before. You have to counter bore the plate so the screw heads do not stick up above the surface of the new plate,, so the old screws, even though they are not very big, should work fine.