Router Q&A (was Use a router table like an Oscilating Spindle Sander?)


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On 12/15/2024 at 3:41 PM, gee-dub said:

Only with a template or a bearing guided bit.  Free handing on a non-guided straight bit at the router table is like cross cutting without a guide at the tablesaw IMHO.  Danger Will Robinson!

That's what I thought.  Thanks!

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Very little control with it, and too high risk of grabbing/kicking IMO. Clamping the board down and holding the router would be safer, but still not ideal. The dynamics are a lot different for abrasion vs cutting. 

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This was a situation where I didn't have a template, and any way I could make a template would work just as well to make the actual piece.  It was an internal, irregular hole and I used a Forstener bit to hog out most of it, a coping saw, and a spindle sander.

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1 hour ago, Beechwood Chip said:

I use it if I'm using a router bit with a guide roller without the fence.  I press the part against the guide pin and slowly pivot it into the spinning bit.  Once the piece is firmly against the bit's guide roller I can ignore the guide pin.  Just helps to stabilize everything during that first contact with the spinning bit.

How about when using a template like @gee-dub?

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If your table doesn't have a starter pin, clamping a block to the fence, allowing its corner to protrude out next to the bit,can serve the same purpose.

Now I have a question: Anyone have experience using a 'pin router', the setup that suspends a rod above the bit to guide a template from the side opposite the cut?

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On 12/16/2024 at 7:50 PM, wtnhighlander said:

Now I have a question: Anyone have experience using a 'pin router', the setup that suspends a rod above the bit to guide a template from the side opposite the cut?

I've never heard of a pin router, but it sounds similar to a pantograph, where a pin follows a template in one location, and the router bit traces an identical path somewhere else.  The router path can be scaled up or down from the template.

Matthais Wandel made a home made one and used it in a bunch of his videos, and eventually companies started selling them for people who didn't want to make their own.

 

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