Afternoon gents. I'm doing to pattern routing for chair parts and running into a bit of trouble here and there. I'm getting catches where I have not expected them and I can't quite understand it. I'd appreciate any insight.
The arrows show the direction I have been feeding when successful, but what confuses me is why the inside curve wants to be routed against the grain. I don't recall it having such preference last time I performed this operation (which was with walnut and ash) but for some reason it seems to prefer it here.
The catches have been completely unnerving and so I want to better understand what I'm doing here to prevent any kind of injury.