Routers and Router Tables (AW): How to Choose and Use the Most Versatile Power Tool in the Workshop

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Routers and Router Tables (AW): How to Choose and Use the Most Versatile Power Tool in the Workshop
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Randy Johnson
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:240
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 190
Category/GenreCarpentry and woodworking - general
ISBN/Barcode 9781565235083
ClassificationsDewey:684.083
Audience
General
Illustrations 50 Line drawings, unspecified; 600 Halftones, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Fox Chapel Publishing
Imprint Fox Chapel Publishing
Publication Date 1 August 2011
Publication Country United States

Description

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

Author Biography

Since 1985, American Woodworker magazine is the premier magazine for woodworking. The magazine has a circulation of 275,000, with more than 150 issues in their backlist.

Reviews

If you are new to woodworking you will want this book. If you are an experienced woodworker you will want this book. If you are about to buy a new router you will want this book. In this writer's opinion there is only one expert at using the router and that is Patrick Spielman and sadly Patrick is no longer with us. This book is the next best thing. There are many woodworkers involved with the publishing of this book and American Woodworker/Fox Chapel has chosen the best. The book starts with the basics like choosing a router like fixed or plunge base tools and covers trim routers as well. This section looks into router lifts and tables. Further on into the book you will find great plans and ideas for building your own router table along with a router lift. Router bit storage is nicely covered as is the proper selection of bits for plunge work. Raised panel work is covered as is template routing. There are excellent tips to be found on page 130 and you will want to read about joining wood with the router on page 172. This book will be a constant reference for you in your woodshop! ROUTERS AND ROUTER TABLES, from the editors of American Woodworker magazine, offers practical advice on how to choose and use the most versatile power tool in the shop. Fully illustrated, the book offers buying advice for identifying the router that best suits your needs. It also includes plans for building four router tables and routing workstations, a router lift and several auxiliary fences for special operations, such as producing raised panels and jointing edges. Dozens of shop-tested tips and router table add-ons are included, along with a special section on producing sliding dovetail joints.