Hopefully I can explain this well enough to make sense.
Last night I was making the base for some storage cabinets I'm making, the base was white oak and 1x4" in size, I had the 4 pieces cut and will screw adjustable feet into the bottoms because the basement floor isn't perfectly level.
I thought I'd cut a kinda flatten n section out of each bottom piece so the base wasn't flat all the way around.
Made a couple of jigs with the curve and traced out on the base pieces and cut with the band saw, so far so good.
Then double sided taped the jig back onto the piece and was gonna used a flush trim router to remove the excess the saw left.
Jig on top of the piece, router jig had bearing on outer end and set at the level of the jig....still good so far....
Router bit was 1.5" and was long enough to do the inch thick piece in one pass, but I knew I to take easy passes, so I started to feed the piece into the router, that's were the problem starts.
I'm using a router table and a PC router btw
Part of the piece disappeared, another part has cut tracks across it and what was left was still partially in my hands.
I also am two band aids short in my first aid kit.
I'm guessing the cutter caught the edge of the wood, and with the thickness of the wood, it didn't cut as it was fed in, but hooked (?) the piece enough to pull it in further and then launched itself?
Was thinking of buying the Rigid belt/spindle sander and this might just speed that up a bit, but I'd like to know what I should have done to prevent this....other than not doing it...
Thanks for any help, not having someone here to help with the learning curve, you all have been a great help.
Al.....who's just bought more band aid stock