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).

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.

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.

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.

Explains the versitility and capability of a router and how to integrate it with other tools, and provides step-by-step instructions to make five woodworking projects, including a mule chest and grandfather clock

Articles from "Fine Woodworking" magazine address the skills needed to use a router in woodworking and include instructions for making clocks, a display cabinet, and other projects