Hand Feeding the Router With Baltic Birch Plywood

How do you hand feed a router with Baltic Birch Plywood? This is largley a matter of developing a "feel" for how the router performs-the sound of the motor, and the quality of finish on the cut material. YOu want to maintain a constant "chipload" on the router bit. One key factor is to avoid always stopping in the middle of a cut.


At 20,000 rpm, the cutting face of the carbide will easily burnishes the edge of the material, creating extreme amounts of heat, and hence the burning, if you have some knowledge of woodworking

 I would suggest "climb cutting" the material on the first pass- moving the router in the same direction as the direction of rotation of the router bit. This can be an unnerving experience at first, as the the router wants to run away on you -and from your control. Try it on a piece of scrap first. The advantage to doing this is that the bit pushes all the waster material behind it as it cuts, keeping the cutting edge clear of waste, and does not go right through the material as it does when conventional cutting. Climb cutting is frequently done on CNC gear and when using power feeders. It offers much better finish on solid woods, where it is used most often


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