ok guys here is a question I need answered,alot of the wood I have is rough,so how do I smooth it down w/out a planer,i will get a hand planer soon,but for now how can I smooththem down,I do have the small Planer I won,but that might take awhile to do,so any suggestions ?

Ron, here is a good image of the principal of doing it with a router, which you have. Make a couple rails and a carriage to mount the router too, and your off and running. It is very effective.

Here ya go

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker

If it is not too wide, you could do one side on the jointer and then do like John said.

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Lew Kauffman-
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What I do for pieces that are too big for my planer is to make a carriage and holder like in the second photo john showed. Lay the wood down and rock it back and forth, flip it over and repeat. Which ever side moves the least is the side I start on. Add shims to support the piece to be planed, Hot glue it to the bottom frame, insert a wide mortising bit in my router and adjust the depth to barely touch the high spots. I make my passes from let rt right only, and one pass across the complete board. Take a pencil and color in the whole board then make progressive passes till the pencil marks are gone.Take a sharp chisel, cut the hot glue and flip the board over, and repeat for the other side. The hot glue comes off very easy with a sharp chisel. I found this to b the best way if you are doing a slab table top or larger piece. Take your time and remember to only cut with the routers direction of rotation. Hope this helps. You cake your jig out of scrap mdf or ply as long as it is big enough to hold the piece. Takes some time but works great.

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Wayne Mahler
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The router bridge is the fastest, but will leave plenty of tool marks to sand away.

Whether the base stock is uneven or not you can use screws from the back in parts that will be cut away to lock it down ot make little dogs with teeth to clamp the work down in choice locations  pulling or down on the  high points to prevent warping of just shim it.

A hold down dog like this can clamp from the edges where the router cutter can't contact