Hi: I take it that your side fence is actually an edge guide. The router base has posts with holes in them, and set screws to lock the rods in. The edge guide locks on to the rods, and helps keep the cut straight when guideing from the edge of a board,like when you want to make a dato in a side to accept a shelf. I would buy a book on basic routing. I suggest the following books "Woodworking with the router" by Bill Hylton and Fred Matlack. And of course "The Router" by Robert Rosendahl.
Hope this helps out.. Woodnut65 |