An all-new collection of 20 great articles from America's premier woodworking magazine gathers the most up-to-date information on routers and router tables, bits and jigs, tips and techniques for router joinery, and much more.
Back by popular demand, these classic woodworking titles from Fine Woodworking magazine are filled with first-rate information that is as timeless now as it was when first published. By mounting your router under a table, you not only make it safer but also greatly expand its usefulness. In this book, Ernie Conover gives you his easy-to-use router-table techniques to help you improve your woodworking. You'll learn which routers work best with router tables and how to build your own table. Conover takes you through the most critical steps in router-table construction: selecting the core material and surface, applying a laminate, setting in the baseplate, and cutting a miter slot. He shows you how to make a fence that will outperform commercial fences and explains how to choose accessories that make using a router table safer and easier. In the section on techniques, you will learn how to do edge treatments, create moldings, do cope-and-stick and other types of joinery, and raise panels. Photo essays show you stpe-by-step how to make drawers, boxes, and doors. Use these tested techniques to make the most versatile tool in your shop even more versatile.
The more than 50 new jigs and fixtures covered in this book help save time, money, and effort. Expert Hylton shows everything from planing boards to making fluted dowels, crafting flawless cope-and-stick joints to creating spiral-beaded columns and finials. 275 photos. 200 illustrations.
Routers can be used to cut a wide variety of joints quickly and accurately. In this video, professional woodworker Gary Rogowski demonstrates router joinery techniques that can be mastered by any woodworker. You'll learn why correct setup and good stock preparation are essential to accurate work, and you'll see how to cut common frame and carcase joints using a hand-held or table-mounted router.
More than 1,000 photos and drawings showcase a brilliant array of how-to-use instructions and unusual jigs and aids. Everything’s covered: sharpening and maintenance procedures, making and fitting exact joints, cutting, safety—and lots more. With great money-saving tips for making ingenious jigs and fixtures, too! “Will serve as the primer on a very useful tool.”—Booklist.
This is the most comprehensive course ever on making joints with a router. Innumerable and spectacular photographs and illustrations, plus invaluable knowledge straight from "The Router Lady," make each step of the process clear. You'll find a whole host of the newest fixtures and procedures that router expert Carol Reed has devised.
Suitable for complete beginners and shows how to get the best out of their router, this title includes eight revised and updated projects, as well as eight projects also including bedside table, stool, flat screen TV unit and circular mirror frame.
The router has become the most versatile and popular woodworking tool in the workshop today. This book shows and describes typical routers designed for the home workshop, together with the range of cutters and accessories available. Using colour photographs and step-by-step drawings, the book demonstrates the basics of setting up, using and maintaining a router in the inverted and overhead positions for special tasks. Further chapters explain how to use the router for shaping, drilling and boring, how to construct woodworking joints, and how to utilize the router for jobs around the house, all clearly presented to enable the woodworker to get the best from this popular woodworking machine.
Woodworking with the Router shows woodworkers how to build timesaving, economical jigs and fixtures to make their routers work better, faster, more accurately, and more safely. Included are hundreds of photos and diagrams, all created especially for this book.