If you have a piece of wood that's warped, it's hard to route it right on a table. One way is to machine it so that the convex side is down and just keep the part closest to the bit flat with the table. Probably the 'right' way would be to forget the table and go handheld.
So, ignoring every really good solution, I made a long piece of beveled oak for a french cleat. The piece will be flat when I screw it to the wall but it was hard to get the bevel right since the concave side was down on the table. So I had to press down really hard.
It occurs to me that I could make a little elevated table right by the router bit extending from the bit forward. So now the work sort of teeters on that auxiliary table. Think of it like another bearing but this time it's on the z axis.
I think I would have more control holding the piece on that than trying to control a handheld router.
thoughts?