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Quick Router Setup
Oct 25, 2005
Here is a quick procedure for setting the fence on your router. Grind a center point on the end of a steel dowel pin that fits the chuck of your router. You can grind the point by chucking the pin in an electric hand drill, turning on the drill and holding it against a running bench grinder. To use the pointed pin, insert it in the router collet, and place the pin right on the centerline of the cut. Then set the fence, replace the pin with the bit, and you’re ready to go.
Jeff Trentini, La Mirada, Calif.
Fine Woodworking Magazine, August 1992 No. 95
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