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Here is the definitive guide to a revolutionary woodworking tool that can be used to carve, drill, cut wood, metal and other materials, simplify reproductions, and perform an array of other essential tasks more quickly and accurately than any other tool in the workshop! This book examines not only basic and advanced operating techniques and the variety of routers, bits, and accessories available, but also shows how to apply both technique and tool in the construction of over 50 intriguing projects, Nearly 600 illustrations highlight this one-volume working encyclopedia that explores: • Scores of available routers, with an analysis of capabilities • Safety and sharpening procedures • Techniques for making and fitting exact joints, carving designs on wood surfaces, and creating panels, cabinet doors, and wood signs • Tasks that can be performed on commercially made 'and homemade router tables • Routing techniques for dovetails, plastic laminates, joints, and surfaces, as well as the use of templates and patterns • Money-saving ways to make jigs and fixtures that will help in unusual routing operations o Special advantages of freehand-routing techniques and production carving machines • Overarm and pin-routing techniques • And much, much more! From the basic operating procedures that beginning woodworkers need to know, to those specialized skills every craftsman wants to know, this inclusive handbook leaves no avenue unexplored. Now, for that one essential tool in every craftsman's workshop has come the one indispensable book for his library! |
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