Woodworking Books

Complete Illustrated Guide To Routers
by Lonnie Bird

The router, for its simple design, is one of the most versatile tools you can own. You can shape decorative profiles, cut grooves, flush-trim, raise panels, and cut almost any joint.

In the Complete Illustrated Guide to Routers, you'll learn how to unleash this versatility by choosing the appropriate bit, and guiding the cut in the proper manner. You'll also learn that while a multitude of bits are available, a few essential bits will enable you to accomplish many of your routing tasks.

More than 800 photo and drawings show you how to use and care for your router and how to get the most from it. In addition to mastering the use of your router, you'll also learn about router tables, and how to make one that works perfectly in your shop

The Shaper Book
by Lonnie Bird

With the proliferation of table-mounted routers in the woodshop, most woodworkers have never experienced the power and precision that a stationary shaper has to offer. In addition to a quiet, vibration-free cut, the shaper allows you to surpass the capabilities of the router by offering wider, deeper cuts, production runs, and custom moldings. In this book, author Lonnie Bird demonstrates how versatile and extremely productive the shaper can be. You'll see that the shaper, with its vast assortment of cutter heads, fences and jigs, can handle a wide variety of woodworking applications. Regardless of your level of woodworking, the shaper can increase the quality and efficiency of your work, and it can broaden the scope of your woodworking. More than just a primer on shaper techniques, this book gives shop-proven examples of how the shaper can be put to use. With an emphasis on safety, this book is a step-by-step guide that will teach you all about the shaper: from basic setups to cutting curved molding profiles to designing shaper jigs that will expand your woodworking potential.

Router: Methods of Work
by Jim Richey

The best router tips from 25 years of Fine Woodworking

Router Methods of Work provides hundreds of innovative methods to use the most versatile of all woodworking tools. From dado basics to fixtures for complex circular work, Router Methods of Work has the techniques to expand the capabilities of your router. It's all from Fine Woodworking's Methods of Work column, the premier forum for woodworkers to share their best tips.

You'll learn about:

• router setup and maintenance
• router tables and mounts
• router joinery
• router dovetails fluting, reeding, and milling
• fixtures for curved and circular work

The Router Book
by Pat Warner

A Complete Guide to the Machine and its Accessories (Paperback)

There is no more complete guide to the most versatile tool in the woodworker's shop than this book. The Router Book covers it all -- from the tool's wide range of uses to tips for maintaining it in the best condition. Router expert Pat Warner sorts through the great variety of tools on the market and offers sound, practical advice on choosing the right router for every woodworker's needs. Ideal for anyone who owns, or is thinking of buying, a router, this book covers bits, accessories, and a wide variety of routers, and surveys the router's many uses -- from edge work to cutting joinery.

Working With Routers
by Fine Woodworking Editors

Getting the Most from Your Router

For most woodworkers, the router is an essential power tool because it can do so much -- whether you are working with solid wood, sheet goods, or veneer. Add a router table and you can cut miles of moldings, machine fine joints, and do all these tasks with precision and ease. Articles contained in this book provide overviews on the different types of routers and router tables and how to use them to finish projects successfully.

• Router safety and maintenance
• Choosing bits and building your collection
• Deciphering the differences between dozens of cutters
• Making and using router jigs
• Getting the most from your router table
• Creating a no-frills, horizontal, or bench-mounted router table
• Router template basics

Ultimate Guide To The Router Table
by Bill Hylton

The router is one of the most versatile tools in any shop, and router tables make it even more versatile by incorporating it into a stationary platform. The router table opens up a whole new world of using the router that simply can't be done using it freehand. Illustrations and close up photos show procedures clearly.

Router Tips and Jigs
by Wood® Magazine (Editor), Peter J. Stephano (Editor)

From the professionals at Wood Magazine come technical advice, wonderful projects, and practical tips for that most versatile and popular woodworking tool, the router. Plentiful photos and solid information show how to use it to straight-edge and surface boards; cut dadoes, rabbets, and Grooves; work circles and curved surfaces.

Shaper Handbook
by Roger W. Cliffe & Michael Holtz

The shaper is a stationary woodworking machine used to produce decorative moldings, edges, and joinery. Every production shop has always had a shaper, but now advanced home woodworkers are increasingly likely to own one of these versatile machines because they are affordable and because they greatly expand the capability of a shop. A shaper, however, is one of the trickiest woodworking machines to operate properly and safely. This handbook explains hundreds of shaper techniques and illustrates each with drawings and photos. Advice is offered about what to look for when buying a shaper, and maintenance, troubleshooting, and tune-up are also covered.

Woodworking with the Router
by Bill Hilton & Fred Mat Lack

Professional Router Techniques and JIgs Any Woodworker Can Use

Best all-around book available on using the router in woodworking .Covers routers, bits, and general operations. Focus on making and using jigs and fixtures for your router. Chapters on cutting individual joints, frame-and-panel work, cutting curves and circles, making and using templates and much more.

Routing for Beginners
by Anthony Bailey

Revised and Expanded Edition

Nothing comes close to the portable router as today’s most popular woodworking tool, and nothing is better than this hugely successful, comprehensive guide for showing beginners how to use it. Now this classic is revised and expanded, with 350 photos and a completely reworked text that reflects all the changes in the field. There’s an additional chapter on router accessories, 2 new chapters on workshop projects, more diversity of content, and great coverage of North American routers, cutters, and accessories. With it, woodworkers can quickly master all the skills they need, from basic handheld operations to jigs and templates, to inverted routing, joint making, and dovetailing. Try your hand at practical projects for your workshop, including cutter selection boards and router tables, plus 8 more projects for the home.

Router Tips & Techniques
by Bob Wearing

A major contributor to both The Router and Furniture & Cabinetmaking magazines shares his resourceful constructions and devices. You’ll learn about vice-jaws, trimming keys and dovetails, making multiple mortises, cleaning off dowels and tenons, cross-halving joints, fielding and beveling, and lots more. Each device appears in large-size color photos, many in close-up, and diagrams illustrate every process in detail.

Success with Routing
by Stuart Lawson

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.

Router Jigs & Templates
by Anthony Bailey

Guided Routing for Perfect Project Building

Woodworkers of all levels will benefit from the practical, time-tested information in this lavishly illustrated, comprehensive routing guide. Expert woodworker Anthony Bailey covers all aspects of this essential tool: how to select the proper router and improve accuracy; how to do both freehand and table routing; and how to make 20 jigs and templates. Instructions for eight useful and attractive projects include a doll's house, a chessboard, a roller-front bread bin, and more.

Router
by Alan Goodsell

A Craftsman's Guide (DVD Inside)

This book reveals how some of the fundamental techniques of routing can be employed to create impressive pieces of work. This book and the accompanying DVD will show you, the craftsman or budding craftsman, that a router is the most versatile woodworking power tool in the shop. The techniques can be learned quickly and easily using a unique combination of reading the book and watching the accompanying DVD. This immersion into the world of routing will ensure that the skills you learn will stay with you and that you will be able to use them to your own requirements. With this book you won't just be shown things to make but how to make the things you want.

Routers and Router Tables
(New Best of Fine Woodworking)

In this all-new collection of 20 great articles from America’s premier woodworking magazine, Routers & Router Tables gathers the most up-to-date information on routers and router tables, bits and jigs, tips and techniques for router joinery, and much more. Whether your focus is precision, space savers, versatility, or all of the above, this guide will show woodworkers the smartest route to routers for accomplishing their best work.

Routing: A Woodworker's Guide
by Stuart Lawson

The router is no ordinary power tool. With the right accessories, jigs and work aids, this versatile machine can be used for virtually any woodworking task, from smoothing surfaces and trimming edges to making joints and cutting grooves. Used correctly, it can transform the way you work and improve your enjoyment of the making process as a whole. 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, Routing—A Woodworker's Guide 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. Ultimately, the router's creative potential depends on the jigs you use.
• Projects include: large router table, housing jig, small circle jig and end-trimming jig.