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Feed direction climb cut

Clockwise feeding of your workpiece in a router table, also known as a conventional cut, is much safer than a counterclockwise climb cut.

of the bit is now the same direction that your are pushing the wood. The bit now acts as a fast spinning wheel thai grabs the wood out of your hands and quickly propels the wood across your shop, often

Bit rotation

Feed direction climb cut

pulling your hands into the bit. This is a very dangerous practice and is to be avoided at all times.

When the feed direction is OPPOSITE the rotation of the bit, it is called a conventional cut. It is easy

to control and yields great results. When the feed direction is the SAME as the rotation of the bit, it is called a climb cut. Climb cuts have their place in routing, but generally speaking they arc to be avoided on a router table. Save climb cuts for handheld router use only when the amount of wood you are removing is very little per pass and when you are intentionally doing it and are aware of the clanger.

— Carol Reed

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LiLi Jackson is a reporter for the Woodworker's Journal. She spent the last year attending classes at many of the country's best woodworking schools.

Caroi Reed is the author of Router Joinery Workshop from I Ark Hooks and the farce behind www.routerlady.com.

Ian Kirby is the autlwr tf/The Accurate Table Saw form Cambium Press and a regular contributor to the Woodworker's Journal.

Mike Weiby is an engineering manager for power tools at Sears, Roebuck and Co.

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