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.

The first operator's manual for the router table If you don't have a router table in your shop yet, you should! The router table opens up a whole new world of using the router that simply can't be done using it any other way. Operations such as edge profiling, making mouldings, cutting lock-miter joints, box joints, rabbets, grooves, splined miters, using templates, pin routing and more can be done using a router table. Using this book, you'll learn basic router-table knowledge, safety issues, setup fundamentals, feed direction and workpiece control. Also, you'll learn about specific operations unique to the router table and how to do them safely.

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.

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.

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.

Whether you prefer the sleek lines of an Adorondack chair and table, or the sturdy scissors of a family picnic table, Yard & Garden Furniture has a project to suit your tastes and needs. There are 20 projects in all, each with a complete parts list, cutting plans, exploded assembly views, and step-by-step how-to photos. The projects include:- Porch rocker- Deck table and chairs- Planter bench- Tree bench- Recliner- Hammock stand