Completely new to woodworking, just got a bunch of tools from my gf's mom's basement... Most of it is brand new. I watched a few videos on using a routing table and wanted to do a simple project, trying to make a dice box for tabletop gaming. My plan was to cut a square and 4 sides and cut them all to 45deg angles and glue it all together.
The whole process is kicking my butt, but I got 2 nice smooth "square" bottoms cut and matched up sanded the edges so they are nice and smooth and ready to angle the edges. Then I ran the first one through the router... did the first pass on one side and it went okay had a small issue with one of the guards being slightly out of line and put a small gouge in the wood when it bounced on the bit. On the second side of the square I started hearing different sounds and knowing how dangerous these things can be I stopped the table and looked at the wood. The 45deg angle rode up the side of the wood like a ramp, very subtly but enough to leave uncut wood on the table side of the piece.
I took a minute to look over the router and made sure things were tight and moved the adjusted the height of the bit and tried on the 2nd piece of wood. My results are as follows... (assuming the pictures work) What the heck is happening, whats it called, and any links to solutions would be great. I dont even know what to call this or what the term for the problem may be so looking it up before asking is hard.
The whole process is kicking my butt, but I got 2 nice smooth "square" bottoms cut and matched up sanded the edges so they are nice and smooth and ready to angle the edges. Then I ran the first one through the router... did the first pass on one side and it went okay had a small issue with one of the guards being slightly out of line and put a small gouge in the wood when it bounced on the bit. On the second side of the square I started hearing different sounds and knowing how dangerous these things can be I stopped the table and looked at the wood. The 45deg angle rode up the side of the wood like a ramp, very subtly but enough to leave uncut wood on the table side of the piece.
I took a minute to look over the router and made sure things were tight and moved the adjusted the height of the bit and tried on the 2nd piece of wood. My results are as follows... (assuming the pictures work) What the heck is happening, whats it called, and any links to solutions would be great. I dont even know what to call this or what the term for the problem may be so looking it up before asking is hard.
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