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   Seth_Frankel | Mar 26, 2002 05:25pm | #1

   Here's a few reasons I'm guessing you won't see this:

   1.) Shapers have blades that can be reversed. Router bits can't be reversed. In order to make thm reverse means developing a substantial line of bits just for this purpose. This means major industrial retooling and on and on.

   2.) I also see possible liability issues when the wrong bits are used spinning the wrong direction. It's much harder to know what's going on under a router than on a shaper.

   3.) Routers have been repurposed for router tables, but they're all still hand held machines. This reversing may provide a few advantages as a router table, but not nearly as many as a handheld, and likely would lead to user confusion.

   There may be some mechanical reason why this isn't done I'm not familiar enough with those things.

   Best,

   Seth

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   Andrew | Mar 26, 2002 07:00pm | #2

   you can just climb cut with a router, and it will eliminate tearout 99% of the time.

   the problem with doing this by hand is that if you take a big cut the router can jump away from you, which could lead to disaster, so you have to be EXTREMELY careful. you can't climb cut on  a shaper without a power feeder if you value your body parts.  a router in a router table is the safest way to climb cut with a router.

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   kcg99999 | Mar 26, 2002 07:39pm | #3

   Hi Andrew,

   Just like climb cutting on a shaper, you MUST use a power feeder to climb cut safely on a router table. That said: 99% of my router table work is climb cut using a power feed. It works really well.

   Hope this helps.

   Regards,

   Kim Carleton GravesCarleton Woodworking

   Edited 3/27/2002 9:52:01 AM ET by Kim Carleton Graves-Carleton Woodworking

   Edited 3/27/2002 9:53:18 AM ET by Kim Carleton Graves-Carleton Woodworking