Router table jointer

[specialist]

I couldn't find a post that would cover this, so if it is doubled, I'm sorry.

I don't have a jointer, so in the past I've had to resort to a straight edge and router for jointing. It used to take forever.:~

I got the idea from a book or internet somewhere. They used a bobbin sander.

I just thicknessed two boards, one 1mm thinner than the other and bolted them to the front of my router fence. My fence obviously not straight hence the 4 thicknesses of paper shims to make the pine boards parallel.

The last pic shows three boards butted up together, not clamped to show the joins. I clamped them at one end and the other end openned up about 1mm under pressure, so that is good enough for now untill I can get the reall thing.

[swiftden]

Hey that is a great idea i watched this video last night in the office at work when it was quiet and they do the same thing using a router table.

http://www.woodworkingonline.com/podpress_trac/web/607/2/070208-RTTips.wmv

[niki]

Hi Specialist

This method is called the "Split Fence jointing method".
Usually they use the same thickness for both fences and put some shims under the Outfeed fence.

I did try this method but it never worked for me so I reverted to the "Straight Edge" method that gives me 100% success each time.
The set-up is very fast because I use "Straight Edge Locator Blocks" to clamp the Straight edge as you can see on the first pic below so, it takes seconds...

But when the boards are too narrow to clamp a straight edge or, if I want to get consistent width along the boards, I use the router table but with straight edge set-up that guaranties 100% success each time as you can see on the 2nd pic

Regards
niki
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[specialist]

Thank you for your comments, swiftden and niki.

It took a long time to set up and probably 2 inches of material before I realised just how to fix it. I like the idea of the locator blocks, never really thought about useing them, but will probably do so now, because I can't always have the router fence setup all the time. After a couple of false starts, I was able to watch that video and will be able to used a couple of the things that were discussed.

Robert