New Product - "CMT Router Table with Large Insert"

    Beth uses the adjustable square to align the fence with the bit's bearing .

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    She has adjusted both fences to give her about 1/8" clearance on both sides. As a last minute check, Beth rotates the bit manually to ensure that it clears the fence.

   Using a push pad, Beth routes a sample.

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   Remember the 1/8" lip she wanted and set the router for? Here is that lip. It is very important to have that.

   It took Beth less than 3 minutes to make the cuts in all eight ends of the rails.

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   Before she changes routers or bits, Beth uses this handy gauge to measure the router bit's height. She is measuring the top of the post. While "matched sets" usually allow us to measure heights from the bottom, I assume we can also measure from the top.

   Beth puts back the router with the cope bit (1) and takes out the router with the matched profiling bit (2). What could be easier.

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   For this first time, she carefully adjusts the router height to the height gauge she set from the profile router.

   And, once again she sets the fence to the bits bearing. She could have put stops in place for setting the fence, but this way seems easy enough.

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   To run the rails, she presses the coped end into the push block which she has cut the profile in. It holds exactly and minimizes tearout of the coped end. This is a real neat trick we learned from Marc Sommerfeld.

   With the push pad and rail together, Beth can make the profile cut of the rail.

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   Running the longer stiles is easy. She just uses her left hand and a safety push pad to hold the piece down and against the fence and her right hand with a Stots push shoe to move the piece safely through the cutter.

   Beth does a quick test of a corner. It is perfect.

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