Build Your Own Router Tables

Step-by-step instructions describe how to design and build three different types of router tables: a portable job-site table, a shop table, and a contractor's table

Even those with no woodworking experience at all can experience the satisfaction of making beautiful furniture--right away. The secret lies in modern-day power tools, which allow anyone to produce first-class results without years of practice. And this superbly illustrated and easy-to-follow guide shows novices the way to success. It contains all the information necessary to a fundamental understanding of the craft, including essential descriptions of wood’s characteristics, explanations of the basic principles of furniture construction, and guidance on all the necessary techniques. Buying lumber, planing, jointing, gluing, and using the tablesaw, bandsaw, routers, and drills: it’s all here. For every one of the projects--which include a chest of drawers, bookcase, and end table--each procedure is shown in fine detail.

Covers all aspects of building your dream woodworking shop. Includes 5 basic layouts and dozens of projects.

Presents detailed instructions on constructing housing and other equipment for beekeeping, including information on installing electric fencing, building hive stands, and making swarm-catching kits.

This is an introduction to the practice of using a router table - the tool that has revolutionized the craft of woodworking. It focuses on how to make the most of a router table, showing which routers work best with tables; explains how to build jigs and fixtures that will improve the results gained from using a router table; and discussed the principles of jig design so that readers can design their own jigs. Show more Show less

This is the most comprehensive course ever on making joints with a router. Innumerable and spectacular photographs and illustrations, plus invaluable knowledge straight from "The Router Lady," make each step of the process clear. You'll find a whole host of the newest fixtures and procedures that router expert Carol Reed has devised.

The first operator's manual for the router table If you don't have a router table in your shop yet, you should! The router table opens up a whole new world of using the router that simply can't be done using it any other way. Operations such as edge profiling, making mouldings, cutting lock-miter joints, box joints, rabbets, grooves, splined miters, using templates, pin routing and more can be done using a router table. Using this book, you'll learn basic router-table knowledge, safety issues, setup fundamentals, feed direction and workpiece control. Also, you'll learn about specific operations unique to the router table and how to do them safely.

The more than 50 new jigs and fixtures covered in this book help save time, money, and effort. Expert Hylton shows everything from planing boards to making fluted dowels, crafting flawless cope-and-stick joints to creating spiral-beaded columns and finials. 275 photos. 200 illustrations.

Superbly detailed, this step-by-step guide walks readers through the stages of planning, design, construction and installation. It makes it all possible, even with only a few basic tools. And its practical, one-foot-after-the-other approach anticipates the readers' questions and concerns every step of the way.

Less cost! More features! Bragging rights! Let's face it: Woodworking isn't cheap. Wood and materials alone can cost a small fortune. And well-designed commercial woodworking machines are often so expensive that they are beyond the reach of many home woodworkers. So what's a woodworker to do? Do what Stumpy Nubs does and build your own! In The Homemade Woodshop, James Hamilton, creator of the popular Stumpy Nubs website, shows you how to build woodworking machines for a fraction of the cost of store-bought models--and with more features to boot! You'll discover 12 detailed projects for building precise, durable shop-made machines including: • Sliding-top router table that makes joinery safe and easy • Multi-function downdraft table that combines dust collection with countless workholding applications • Sliding crosscut table that gives your table saw the precision and convenience of a high-end European saw • 24" band saw that offers all of the throat capacity of an industrial model in a size that will fit on a benchtop • Crosscut "super-sled" that allows you to create box joints, splined miters, tenons and more • Table saw workstation that affords you a complete workshop in a 4' x 8' footprint • And 7 more! The projects in this book not only save you money, but they allow you to add more features and, ultimately, greater precision and more versatility to the machines in your shop. And let's face it: Having a shop outfitted with machines that you built yourself is just cool.