Router Basics

by Patrick Spielman

Hundreds of tips, backed by more than 200 close-up, step-by-step photos and drawings. “A good starter volume.”― Booklist . “Includes a useful glossary of bit types and a list of safety rules....Well-photographed instructions on how to make various cuts―straight, arcs, freehand routing―and includes instructions for a practical application for each of them.”― Woodworker’s Journal.

Genres: Woodwork

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

Reviews

[Mike · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a useful book, but as the title says, some of it is a little basic: The kind of stuff you get from reading the instruction manual on your router. Which is ok; it's the first book that I've read focusing on the router, so I wanted it to err on the side of too basic as opposed to assuming too much previous knowledge. And once I got into it, it had some really good stuff. There were some general instructions and advice that I didn't know, and there was a jig or two that I am going to make. Overall, it was a useful book that I will definitely keep around in my shop, and well worth the $5 I spent for a used copy on amazon.

[Eric · Rating 3 out of 5]

A bit out-dated but still solid introduction to routers, how they work, and how you should use them. I'll most likely make some of the jigs and maybe even give the router table a try.