How To Set Up A Router Table As A Jointer

Rockler offers a set of Router Table Jointing Shims that make setting up to use your router as a joiner quick and painless.

How to set up a router table as a jointer. Its a simple procedure - heres all thats involved. Ive seen some people secure right. If there is an insert in the hole remove it.

Chuck your bit into the router and raise it just above the table surface photo 2. For example plywood can beat up high-speed steel jointer knives but wont affect a carbide router bit so thats when Ill set up my router table for the job. I set the knives on Gibb style cutter heads by having the lock screws set as tight as possible and still raise the knife to touch the gauge I dont care what you use as long as you can judge the contact while rolling the head back and forth.

Cleaning up an edge forming a rounded top or cutting any curved part will be a breeze. Cutting a finger joint on a router table. With the router unplugged use a square and a 12.

Lay the face of the workpiece down on the table and butt the material up to the jig. Raise or lower the bit until the long index mark on the jig aligns with the centerline you marked on the workpiece. Prepare the router table.

In a pinch you can use your router table as a jointer. I screwed the fences through the base and counter sunk the screws. Now ready for routing.

Move the fence forward and tight its both end. Sharp knives an outfeed table thats dead-level with the highest point in the cutterhead knives path of travel and a fence thats set perfectly square to the outfeed table. Place your laminate piece at the left-hand edge of the bit-clearance notch in the router table fence.