Safety week router right hand rule

This is COOL!!

Electronic/Electrical theories also have right hand rules. Yours will make it even easier for me to remember.

Thanks!!

Ha Thats funny you mention that lew… I’m an electrical engineer. Thats why I assume this must be old news for routers even though I’ve never heard it before.

-- Wipe the blood stains from your blade before coming in.

Pretty spiffy memory trick. Sort of a touch and go … touch with your thumb and go where your fingers point. Unless of course you’re left handed … but let’s not get into that. ;-)

-- Working at Woodworking http://www.VillageLaneFurniture.com

Well just remember right is right and left is wrong. On a side note I had a left handed plumber when my house was built… it took some work to get the second floor straightened out. Although hot water in the toilet was interesting. Like a refreshing steam bath for your butt.

-- Wipe the blood stains from your blade before coming in.

What technique do you use when freehanding routing on a router table?

-- Each and Every step of any project should be considered your masterpiece if you want the finished product to reflect the quality of your work. Greg Little

Greg

the same rule applies. if you point your right thumb to the wood where the bit is going to cut it, then you move in the direction of your index finger. If your using a table then the router doesn’t move so you move the wood in the direction of your finger. Its still correct because the router is upside down.

-- Wipe the blood stains from your blade before coming in.

Hot water in the toilet, eh? At least you didn’t have to worry about a cold seat.

-- Working at Woodworking http://www.VillageLaneFurniture.com

I volunteer at a high wood shop were the teacher was showing students how to route but he was going the wrong way so the router bounced away from his fence. when we were away from the students I told him router from left to right unless you intend to do a climb cut(going left to right) sometimes done to control tear out for light cuts . except router tables are right to left.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

Thank you!

-- Never board, always knotty, lots of growth rings

brilliant :)

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

As my shop teacher says, go the right way not the wrong way

Routing with the aid of template guides and using a female template rout in a ‘clockwise’ direction and uasing a ‘male’ template rout anti-clockwise.

-- Getting more from my router with the aid of Template Guides

I fear I am about to get my chops busted here, but I am trying to understand the application of the formula to a Festool router. After destroying a guide rail going left to right (which I believe would be counterclockwise), I contacted Festool and was told to rout in the same direction as the arrow that appears on top of the base of the router—something not mentioned in Festool’s somewhat scant operator’s manual. That arrow turns in a clockwise direction (which I gather is the direction that the bit turns). Clockwise would be right to left—but then again I sometimes get the two confused! Given these facts, is Festool and exception to the formula?

-- Rick in Sunny AZ