I assume that you are using featherboards to hold the piece being routed to the fence of the router. I have had the same experience with regards to the problem you mention on the last inch or so of the strip. My interpretation of what is happening is that the featherboard is putting slightly more pressure on the strip during the last inch (thereby creating a deeper cut) because there is a space in the fence at that point (I am using a Craftsman router table with the fence that comes with the table). It definitely sounds like a set up issue. I simply live with the problem (ie cut off the end of the strip).

: Anyone got some advice on the finer points of setting up a router table for
: milling strips?

: I have been milling some more strips to finish off my Razor Billed Auk deck
: and ran into an issue I couldn’t explain. As I send the strips through my
: router table cutting beads, the last one inch of the strip seems to get a
: extra 1/8” taken off. I have not had this problem before and am using
: feather boards on both sides and above the bit.

: Obviously this isn’t a big problem to cut off the last 1” but I was curious
: if anyone else has had this problem. I am assuming that it has something
: to do with getting the fence parallel to a tangent of the bit but I kept
: getting “snipe” on that last 1” no matter how I fiddled with the fence.

: Regards,

: Jack