I like to work with quartersawn oak but many a project has been lengthened by pieces destroyed by splintering of oak during routing.
What can I do to minimize this? I have reduced the rpm's to about
14,000, am using a Freud 3.25 hp router (in a table), sharp bits, and my feed rate is neither fast nor slow.Perhaps the cuts I am taking are too aggressive? Last night I cut a rabbet (with a CMT rabbet bit) 3/32 x 1/2 inch in one pass (red oak) and had significant splintering. Is that too much to take in one pass or is this just the nature of the wood?
Suggestions?
TIA
App