Synopses & Reviews
With a router in hand, you can accomplish almost any woodworking task! In addition to basic trimming and edging work, routers can be used to smooth surfaces, cut grooves, and even make joints. Woodworkers of all skill levels will appreciate the concise instructions and detailed techniques, as well as the more than 150 color photographs and diagrams. There's professional advice for choosing and buying equipment and accessories, using cutters, controlling dust, and lots more. Using jigs is one of the keys to unlocking the router's potential, and their applications are discussed in great depth, including housing jigs, trammel jigs, and finger-joint jigs. Other featured topics are using a template and guidebrush, mortise and tenon joinery, and doing table routing.
Synopsis
Whether you are interested in bench woodworking and are thinking of buying a router, or simply want to get the most from an existing machine, Success with Routing is ideal for woodworkers of all abilities. The contents provide an in-depth guide to the equipment and how it is used, covering topics such as basic router anatomy, cutters, accessories, safety, dust extraction, table routing and work holding.
About the Author
Stuart Lawson, editor of Woodcarving and The Router, past editor of New Woodworking and author of Success with Routing (ISBN 1 86108 490 0). He lives in Brighton, UK.