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Default Using a Router to create molding/trim

In article om, Nosstech wrote:

I am feeding the boards from right-to-left (as you look at the router
table), the same way the bit is spinning.


In that case, you must have the workpiece on the opposite side of the bit from
you -- which means you're reaching your hands over the spinning bit. And, if
you're using a fence, you have the workpiece between the fence and the bit.

Both of these are highly unsafe conditions.

Is that right


No.

or should I
feed the board in the opposite way the bit is spinning (left-to-right
as you look at the table)?


If you're using a bearing-guided bit and no fence, then you should be feeding
the board from right to left, with the board between you and the bit.

If you're using a fence to guide the board, the bit needs to be in the middle
of the fence with only the cutting wings projecting beyond the face of the
fence. (Most router table fences are two-piece affairs to facilitate this. If
yours doesn't have two pieces, get one, or make an auxiliary fence, that
does.) Then you feed from right to left, with the board against the fence,
and, again, with the board between you and the bit.

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