I am getting ready to rout bead and coves and have a question. What is the standard way of feeding the strips into the table? I have read on one oceans site and another that I cannot remember now that "back routing" is the way to do it as in feed the strip with the rotation of the cutter giving you a very clean cut. Now I dont have any experience with a router table but this seems like a risk. I dont want projectiles with rifle like force shooting across the shop. Is this actually the way this is done? Nicks second book says to feed against the rotation this seems more logical.

Another question I have ripped quarter inch strips anybody with experience care to throw 2 cents towards the "best" depth to cut the cove into the strips? Again Nicks second book has a page that shows four pics of different depths I think the shallow cove would be best. I am just fishing for input from those who have been there so any thoughts would be great.

Thanks
Dave