Not going to use my router till I've heard from the supplier about the jamming bit, so I've had a practice today with my old mans 1/4 inch jobby I think to get the best cut for a curve I need to work from right to left with the grain? Seems better to me anyway.
Nice work I think if the bits in the router spins clockwise you should work around the piece anti clockwise. I tend not to think about it and just do it, so I should read up if I were you. You'll soon know the difference, one way is almost uncontrollable.
Silver is right. If your using a guide (hope you are) . If the bit spins clockwise go anti with your cut. This makes the router push on the guide. If you go the other way it'll try to move away from the guide and be uncontrollable.
The easy way to remember is, the router always wants to move to the left. About your tight cutter, have you got the correct collet fitted. I have 3 for mine, for different sized shanks, and I'm sure two of them are pretty close in size.
Just making it up as I go along really! Will be using a proper guide /jig to do the real thing but just found a roughly curved off cut of floor to play with! Yep it's a half inch machine and came with quarter inch collet aswell but I've not opened that. Not sure why it's too tight, doesn't seem right that I have to whack the bits to get them out
