How To Set Up A Router Table As A Jointer

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How to set up a router table as a jointer. Hold the router upside down under the table and position it under the insert hole. So I figured out a way to joint boards using my router table. Cutting a finger joint on a router table.

Unplug the router and chuck-up a straight bit. With the router unplugged use a square and a 12. In this short video furniture maker and Fine Woodworking contributing author Gregory Paolini demonstrates his technique for jointing wood on the router table.

Now ready for routing. Lay the face of the workpiece down on the table and butt the material up to the jig. Chuck your bit into the router and raise it just above the table surface photo 2.

Rockler offers a set of Router Table Jointing Shims that make setting up to use your router as a joiner quick and painless. You can make a fence for your router table by double sided taping a piece of plywood or other thin material to the outfeed side of your fence photo 3 - left. The rigid router fence will keep the laminate from flexing.

Ive seen some people secure right. When it comes to milling wood proper jointer set-up requires three things. Set the height of the router bit and tighten it in the table.

Sharp knives an outfeed table thats dead-level with the highest point in the cutterhead knives path of travel and a fence thats set perfectly square to the outfeed table. Raise or lower the bit until the long index mark on the jig aligns with the centerline you marked on the workpiece. Place your laminate piece at the left-hand edge of the bit-clearance notch in the router table fence.