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Check it out:
http://www.woodworkerz.com/minimize-router-burns/

That really IS slick. Thanks for posting it.

Now we need someone to test this. Not me, too cold in the shop to do much of anything for the next couple of days at least. Besides I don't have any cherry or maple to test on...... well some maple but not to just waste.

Ed

After burning a fair amount of cherry on a project I did a few years ago I got feed up and went to see David at Infinity. He sold me a bit that made it almost impossible to burn cherry.
Instead of the cutting edge being parallel to axis of the shaft the cutting edge was on a slant.
That made the cutting edge only to touch a very small portion of the wood at a time. Plus it made it cut with a slicing action rather than scrapping. Worked for me.

I learned a similar trick from my dad years ago. Rather than putting the tape on the wood, I wrap the router bit bearing a couple of times and do my first pass. Take the tape off the bearing for the final pass.

I haven't had problems with router burns on cherry wood, but I always seem to get some small burns when sawing cherry. It takes time, but I can sand them out by hand after cutting the wood.
With the router, I make multiple passes taking off just a small amount of wood, and that seems to avoid the burns.

garys, I do a lot with cherry and feel ya. B4 sanding out the TS burns, work some MS, Turpentine or Naphtha in and while still damp do your sanding. It is the oil in the wood that burns.