The router is the most versatile and resourceful power tool in the woodworking shop, capable of shaping profiles, making duplicate copies, flush-trimming, and cutting nearly every joint used to build cabinets and furniture. Add a router table to the mix, and you can do all these tasks with precision and ease. But wait--there's still one other critical tool necessary to be armed and ready to take on any project: "Routers & Router Tables"! In this all-new collection of 20 great articles from America's premier woodworking magazine, Routers & Router Tables gathers the most up-to-date information on routers and router tables, bits and jigs, tips and techniques for router joinery, and much more. Whether your focus is precision, space savers, versatility, or all of the above, this guide will show woodworkers the smartest route to routers for accomplishing their best work.

This is an introduction to the practice of using a router table - the tool that has revolutionized the craft of woodworking. It focuses on how to make the most of a router table, showing which routers work best with tables; explains how to build jigs and fixtures that will improve the results gained from using a router table; and discussed the principles of jig design so that readers can design their own jigs. Show more Show less

Everything you wanted to know about choosing a router, making a router table, using a router to shape wood, making joints using a router.

For most woodworkers, the router is an essential power tool because it can do so much. Add a router table and you can cut miles of molding, machine fine joints and do all these tasks with precision and ease. This book covers different types of routers and router tables, how to use them successfully and in-depth coverage of a wide variety of router techniques.

The Router Book provides a complete guide to the router. Covering every type of router, its tooling, and best uses, it will be an essential volume for anyone and everyone who owns or is planning to buy a router (or routers).

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.

Hundreds of tips, backed by more than 200 close-up, step-by-step photos and drawings. “A good starter volume.”—Booklist. “Includes a useful glossary of bit types and a list of safety rules....Well-photographed instructions on how to make various cuts—straight, arcs, freehand routing—and includes instructions for a practical application for each of them.”—Woodworker’s Journal.