Thread: Router safety question

Sounds like an ideal situation for binding and kickback to me. How about attaching your black walnut onto a larger board and then running that through the router?


Cheers

Stinky

I'd be moulding the profile on a wide piece of timber first, then cutting the strip off.

Hi,
Didn't the other two black fingers that came with the RTA300 do the job?
Regards

Originally Posted by A Duke

Hi,
Didn't the other two black fingers that came with the RTA300 do the job?
Regards

Not firm and positive enought on slim mouldings for me.

I'd turn the left-hand finger 180 so that it matches the right-hand one.

Ray

Thanks Ray, had not thought of that one. Still need something to hold the slender moulding to the bit. I have the other board with two black flexible arms but still inclined for the bit to come off the timber being moulded.

BTW long time no see, what are you doing these days?

Featherboard or a block of wood held to the face of your timber just before the bit would stop it from moving away from the bit. I would be wary of clamping another fence to the front of it.

Harold

Use a Magswitch featherboard before the bit. Then you can use a pushstick to feed the piece, and control the outfeed with your other hand.

Thanks all, the Triton table might not be acceptable to a magnet where needed? But where there's a will there's a way.

I shall have to make a feather board that can be clamped in position just to touch before the bit, but I also like to have the guard in place as well.

Got another problem coming up shortly. I want to make a tissue box with a decorative wavy strip dividing the carcass face. I intend using a guide wheel on the router cutter against the former with double sided tape. However I dont want to hold the piece being formed with my fingers. So how do I get over that one?

Originally Posted by jow104

Thanks all, the Triton table might not be acceptable to a magnet where needed? But where there's a will there's a way.

Works fine on mine John.

HI how about something like this to hold the material for your wavy strip.Instead of the setback in the face of the base use the same shape/wave that you want in your box. and use a pattern bit with the bearing on the shank and no fence.

Regards
Harold

Thanks Pal. I will have to knock up something like that, I just cannot bring my fingers to hold the workpiece to the cutter.