Woodworking with the Router, Revised and Updated: Professional Router Techniques and Jigs Any Woodworker Can Use (Fox Chapel Publishing) Comprehensive, Beginner-Friendly Guide (American Woodworker) - Softcover

Still the Undisputed Champion
of Router How-to Books

Woodworking with the Router remains the most highly regarded—and best-selling—router manual available. Clear, comprehensive, and readable, it's packed with the techniques and tricks you'll need to unleash your router's incredible potential. You'll find the best ways to...

• Cut decorative edgings and moldings
• Surface wood and joint edges for glue-ups
• Shape furniture parts
• Cut curves, circles, and ovals
• Make cope-and-stick frames, and raise panels
• Cut strong, practical joints of all kinds—dadoes, rabbets, laps and half-laps, dovetails and sliding dovetails, mortise-and-tenon
• Make simple, accurate jigs and fixtures
• Design, make, and use templates to cut joints and shape parts
• Design, build, and use a router table

You'll find all that and more in this expanded, thoroughly revised and updated edition. Hundreds of large, clear photos and drawings—now in full color—show you everything you need to know about using a router productively and safely. The information is specific, tested, and accurate, making this crackerjack manual almost as indispensable as the router itself!

About the Author
Bill Hylton has been writing about woodworking for more than 20 years. His dozens of books on the topic include Illustrated Cabinetmaking and Outdoor Furniture for the Backyard Builder.

Bill Hylton is is the author of Router Magic and Woodworking with the Router, and appears at woodworking seminars and demonstrations around the country. He is an expert on routers, power tools, and furniture building. He lives in Quarryville, Pennsylvania.