Scribd
Upload
84 views1 page

Essential Guide To: 8 Router Table-Mate

This document provides a summary of articles in Popular Woodworking magazine about using routers for woodworking. The articles cover making a router table, techniques for housed dovetails and dovetail joints using routers, cope and stick joinery with routers, and an essential guide to woodworking essentials focusing on routers. The guide has chapters on fixed base routers, plunge routers, and router tables.

Uploaded by

amcoelho
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOC, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
84 views1 page

Essential Guide To: 8 Router Table-Mate

This document provides a summary of articles in Popular Woodworking magazine about using routers for woodworking. The articles cover making a router table, techniques for housed dovetails and dovetail joints using routers, cope and stick joinery with routers, and an essential guide to woodworking essentials focusing on routers. The guide has chapters on fixed base routers, plunge routers, and router tables.

Uploaded by

amcoelho
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOC, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 1

CONTENTS

8 Router Table-mate
With just $50 and a long weekend in your shop,
you can make a router table that puts your old
Workmate (or sawhorses) back to use.
by Steve Shanesy
15 Housed Dovetails
The super-strong housed-dovetail joint is a
stalwart of 18th-century furniture – and it’s
surprisingly simple to cut with your router.
by Geoffrey Ames
18 The $22 Dovetail Jig
Perfect half-blind dovetails with your router
don’t require a $300 jig – you can make your
own for just $22 (including the bit).
by Troy Sexton
23 Cope-and-stick Joinery
Learn to set up and use a matched set of
router bits to create doors that are strong,
easy to make and beautifully detailed.
by Jim Stuard

Essential Guide
to Woodworking Essentials:
This series of articles from a veteran woodworker
and teacher covers all the bases of router use.
From choosing and setting up a tool, to making
intricate and complex joints, to selecting the right
bit for the job, this guide will give you a good start
and keep you routing in the right direction.
by Nick Engler
27 Chapter 1: Fixed-base Router
Reduced to its basics, the router is simply a
motor and shaft that holds interchangeable
bits. Once you understand how the parts
work together, you’re on your way to
becoming a router pro.
35 Chapter 2: Plunge Router
To expand your routing abilities into joinery
you’re going to want to purchase a plunge
router. Here’s how to choose, set up and
use this valuable tool.
43 Chapter 3: The Router Table
Mounting your router in a table makes
many cuts easier, safer and more accurate.
Plus, get ideas for a good table.
Popular Woodworking January 2008
ON THE COVER
Routers do more
than just decorate
edges. Used
correctly, a router
can be a joinery
powerhouse as well.
Photo by Al Parrish
8

You might also like