Edge jointing on router table

[Bill in Buena Park]

Still not having made the decision on which jointer will suit my future needs, and being without one but having some edge jointing to accomplish, I decided to try making a jointer sled for my router table from an article I'd run across somewhere (WW mag or internet, I can't recall.) Basically requires a couple scraps of plywood, some solid scrap to make a piece to fit the miter track, and a couple of toggle clamps.

Turns out it works pretty well. Picture below shows LOML helping with some edge-jointing with the sled of soon-to-be stiles for the Hope Chest project.

What is amazing to me about the closeup photo is that I took this with my little Olympus (not high end) digital camera during the operation, with the router bit presumably cutting at ~20K RPM - but my camera managed to "freeze" the bit (you can clearly see the carbide) without any substantial blurring!

[Bill in Buena Park]

Sorry - closeup didn't upload in OP. Here it is.

[dlminehart]

Bill, the reason the bit was "stopped" in the photo was that the flash was used, and it was a closeup. The flash is automatically shut off when the picture has received enough light. A light close to a subject is brighter than one far away. The flash always fires with its full brightness, with the total exposure (brightness * time) varying with how long it is on. So, closeup shots = less total light needed = constant brightness for shorter time. Some of these "simple" cameras can shut the flash off in 1/10,000 or even 1/20,000 of a second! You could, for instance, capture a bullet bursting a balloon, or water droplets hitting a surface and rebounding, if the camera were very close and you used autoflash . . . and triggered the shutter at exactly the right moment!