How To Use A Router Table As A Planer

With the high spot located raise the cutter and then lower it.

How to use a router table as a planer. These screws will prevent the jig from moving side to side before the router bit cuts into the rails. Using readily available lumber and a few specialty router bits anyone with a router table planer and table saw can make their own crown molding. An insert that sits below or above the surrounding table can lead to an inaccurate cut or stop a workpiece in mid-pass.

Turn the table on its side and line up the mounting holes on the bottom of the plate with the correct securing points in the router which you identified earlier. Rotate the second rail around the screw until the rail is parallel to the first rail then remove the first screw and slide the rail up or down until level. It is very easy to joint a board on a router table.

Drill out a large hole in the center of the plywood. Make sure the insert plate holding the router tool is properly attached and sits in. Cut the lumber to width plane it to the correct thickness and begin routing the profiles on the face of the stock.

The router will be attached to the insert plate with bolts which are inserted into the plate and go through to the router base. Using a combo-square mark lines across the jig at the edges of the hole. It requires a straight bit and an offset fence.

Put the router on the jig and pluge down lightly until you make contact with the work and lock the plunge depth. Make multiple passes cutting on the left side of the bit until the edge is jointed. Level the playing field.

Turn on your router and run some scrap material across the table using the fence to guide and support the piece. Remember the bit rotation from the top is clockwise so with your straight edge on the left make a push cut and the rotation will hold the router tight to the fence photo 13 - above. Mount the screws with the heads raised slightly.