How to Use a Wood Router Table - woodworkweb 

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Kent Smith ..... Since Colin hasn’t responded, I hope you don’t mind my chiming in. I’m still pretty new at using the router myself but learned a lot about the bits. There are combo sets on Amazon that run about $25 for approximately 12 bits. They don’t last long at all though. Cheap bits dull very quickly or they break. You may get 2 or 3 uses out of them if you’re lucky but they ARE good for when you’re learning how to use a router. Also, you’ll get a sense of which bits you use more than others. Long term though I recommend not buying in a set. Buy the bits individually. It’s absolutely worth spending $20-30 or more on a single bit especially if you’re going to use it often. I myself have 3 bits I use all the time. Straight bit, chamfer bit and my favorite, the Roman ogee bit. Those cost me between $22-$57 a piece but they are so worth it. That’s low to mid range for a quality router bit. I’ve seen some that cost 175 each! In a nut shell, if you plan on using the router often or even for years to come it is worth investing in quality router bits. Good luck!

It really depends on what surface of the 1x4 you want to route.

like you, im new to woodworking, and from my understanding the feather board keeps pressure on the wood against the router blade. you can also get a feather board for the back fence too to keep downward pressure on the wood too.

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SPOREOUT3 The router's fence does need to be mostly parallel to the feather board. The feather board is often referred to as "another set of hand" meaning it allows you to hold things in place while thus freeing up one of your other hands and as Rookiemistake0607 mentioned, putting pressure on the wood to hold it against the bit or blade

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joga821 Did I say edge grain somewhere?? ... should be END grain, also known as cross grain. Yes it will "blow out" or splay when hit with the router bit. That is why we do the long grain last, because it almost always fixes and end grain blow out that happens. Bits can jump sometimes when they hit a certain gain pattern and and not as well supported as they could be, or when they hit a knot or even the edge of where a knot was. The grain in these areas is often harder and of a different pattern. In most cases you can re-rout these areas and get a good cut. Depending on what you are using the trim for, you may get away with small defects like that where nobody will notice ... except you. This is a pretty common thing among woodworkers. We all have little imperfections that we can see and know about, but nobody else can notice. If you are finding this an ongoing problem, maybe you need to support the wood you are running through your router a bit more firmly. Maybe featherboards might help?? Let me know if you have more questions ... I will try to help out Colin

You really need to test it with the wood your using. You'll find that different types of woods can react very differently to being routed or cut.I prefer to start off slower when testing and going from there. Hope that helps.