Routers and Router Tables: How to Choose and Use the Most Versatile Power Tool in the Workshop (Tool Smarts)

Shop-tested expert advice for amateur woodworkers on how to choose, use, and get the most out of routers and router tables. The modern router allows woodworkers to shape edges, cut joints, and manufacture cabinet parts. Mounted in a table with a fence, the shop router becomes as versatile as a shaper, and it's a whole lot cheaper.

Trim router, plunge router, multi-base router - which one should you buy? Along with shop-test buying advice, this book includes complete plans for four complete router tables and routing work stations, a spiffy router lift, plus several more auxiliary fences for special operations such as raising panels and jointing edges. Plus dozens of proven photo-illustrated shop tips and router table add-ons. Includes special section on amazing sliding dovetail joints, which can only be made on the router table.