After having my very first time using a router (for making the templates), i felt confident to move to routing the body. I tried a bit on some scrap wood (same wood as the body) so as to get used to the hardness of the wood.
Here´s the body piece, after having jigsawing most of the excess away:
Fixated the template on the body piece using some screws and some fixating-dings-stuff (which i dont know the name in english, but check the picture )
And off i went! But uh-oh...
Ran into some problems! When routing up-grain (if there is such a word
), the routing bit was lifting up too much "splinters". Theyre not exactly chunky tear-outs, but to sand them down ill remove about 1mm-1,5mm of wood...
Can anyone enlighten me, what can i do to avoid this? Im routing in the direction that has been discussed in oh so many other threads (in Bucko's BUTTERCASTER thread, even), but even so didnt manage to do this smoothly.
The wood is very fragile and very open grained, so i think this MAY be normal. I also realize im taking off too much at a time, but i wasnt able to find a smaller bit!
Any comments welcome!
Cheers
André Ripoll