clean up round edge with router

[Philip Florio]

I cut a circular 6" diameter piece on my bandsaw. I need to clean up the edge on my router table. Since this is one piece is there a way to do this without make a template as a guide? Phil

[Jerome Hanby]

Haven't tried this, just throwing out the idea. Maybe if you used a large diameter pattern bit then the bigger bearing would be less likely to telegraph the rough spots during the cut. You could cut about half the thickness on pass one, then flip the disk and use the new, hopefully smooth, surface to guide pass two. Maybe flip it again for pass three if the second pass produced a better surface than pass one.

[Mark Rakestraw]

If you have some type of belt sander this may work for you. I take my bandsaw circle cutting jig over to the edge sander. I put a bolt hole through the jig and the table so I can just pivot towards the belt until I have contact, then clamp it down and rotate the piece in the jig. Normally I'm doing this for lazy susan sized circles, but it works just as well for smaller things.