Ok, so what am I doing wrong????
I picked up two pieces of rough sawn oak yesterday. Both pieces were 1 1/2 inches thick, 3 inches wide, 30 inches long. I first ran it through the planer. Since I do not have a jointer, I used my router table to joint the edges. My router table is a Bench Dog CI (table saw extension kind) w/ a ProMAX fence. The fence has spacers to offset the outfeed fence to allow jointing.
I ran both pieces thru the table multiple times. When I placed the two "jointed" edges against each other, I had a small gap on each end. Placing each piece against my table saw fence confirmed that there was indeed a bow in both pieces.
I'm wondering if the issue is how I am pressuring the work piece up against the router fence as I pass it by the bit. If I press too much on the infeed side of the fence, I get snipe about a 1/2 inch from the end of the board.
For this particular project they will not be placed against each other so I can live with the bow but in the future I'd like to avoid it (especially if I build any panels). Buying a jointer is not feasible due to workshop space.
Any advice would be appreciated.