This Old House: I always run a test cut on a scrap of the material I'm routing first, to make sure the bit's height is set correctly and that it's not spinning so fast that it burns the wood. Hardwoods are most susceptible to burning from high bit speeds.
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I always find it fascinating how good people get at specific tasks. If you had asked me to write an article on how to router something I may have come up with a few lines about going in the opposite direction of the blade’s spin and that’s pretty much it. The mastery that you can achieve and the understanding of how something functions best that comes from doing it eighty or a hundred or a thousand times is really cool to see in any discipline. I love watching a true craftsman do their work regardless of what it is because there is a beauty in how they do their work that is so essential to the final outcome of that work. It doesn’t matter how dirty, how simple, or how large a project is. Done well, watching anything is beautiful.
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