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:oops: Thank you everybody. Obviously (now) it makes much more sense to do it the other way round. I had got profiling and edge trimming in my head, stupid of me. So now I need to buy another bearing - the spending never stops does it.

I'm wondering if I am doing this all wrong. Here's a picture, I hope you can make out what's going on, the ply is clamped to a support piece, the router bit has created the 12.7mm rebate, leaving 5.3mm of the 18mm, and I have gone 5mm deep. You can see how bad it is. Yes, the router has a speed...

A beginner with this technique, and struggling. I want to put a rebate in 18mm birch plywood bookcase uprights, to accept a back panel. I have a brand new Trend rebate router cutter. I have done one experiment and the tear-out is terrible - 1" or more of the veneer layer torn off and thrown...

Thanks again for this. Very helpful.

Thank you so much for taking the time to reply - really helpful. I'll test your generosity with a couple of follow-ups: Very interesting - I wouldn't have known that the sawn edge of birch is more durable than softwood edging if you hadn't told me. You obviously don't think that over time the...

Can anybody advise me on the simplest way to edge bookcase uprights? I am in a new house, and have to create about 70m of book shelving, split across 4 rooms, all fitted. This will involve about 17 bookcases around 500mm wide and about as tall as the rooms i.e. 2100mm or so. So that's 34...