Router
Tips & Techniques
by Bob Wearing
Softcover
210 x 295mm
102pp
Published by Guild of Master Craftsman Publications Ltd, East Sussex UK
R.R.P.$29.90
ISBN 1-86108-214-2
Extract from back cover of book:
In this authoritative new compilation of articles from The Router, Bob Wearing shares his resourceful constructions and devices for simplifying a myriad of woodworking tasks - all using the ever-versatile router.
About the Author: Bob Wearing trained at the famous Loughborough College. He has spent a lifetime teaching woodwork and furniture design, and has written on the subject for over 40 years.
Photos: Colour
Units of Measurement: Metric
Contents
My Router Workshop
Routing
In The Vice
Turn
your vice into a router jig with this simple modification
The
Levelling Foot
Support an unstable router set-up with this leveller
A
Fence For The Levelling Foot
The lesson on routing bars continues with
an explanation of how to make a fence for a levelling foot
Edge
Jointing
How to make a jointing board for use with a router
Biscuit
Jointing
Looking at the biscuit jointer and how this useful tool can be
used with a router
Router
Shooting Board For 45°
How to make shooting boards for a router to
cut accurately at a 45° angle
Router
Shooting Board For 90°
How to make router shooting boards to accurately
rout 90° edges
Routing
Small Circles
How to make a jig for use when routing small circles
Working
Short Slots
The best advice on producing slots
The
Keyed Mitre Joint
How to combine mitre joint and strengthening keys to
make a joint good enough for most boxes and carcasses
Cleaning
Up After Gluing
More work for the versatile routing bars, this time using
them when trimming keys and through dovetails
Combo
Joints By Router
How to make strong comb joints
A
Line Of Holes
The best technique for drilling holes in a line
A
Parking Block For The Router
Save your blades with a neat little "parking
block"
Loose
Tooth Comb Joint
Make your own version of this simple but versatile loose
tooth comb joint
A
Mini Combination Machine
How to handle the fiddly bits with a miniature
combination machine
Splined
Mitre Joint
How to rout the invisible splined mitre joint
Router
Setting Gauge
How to make a neat little setting gauge for the router
Fielding
Panels
You don't need fielding cutters to field panels
A
Hold-Down System
Taking the pain out of workbench clamping with a simple
hold-down system
Routing
Multiple Grooves
There are many ways to rout multiple grooves
Multiple
Mortices
Many ways of morticing with the router
Working
Perspex
Successfully cutting this innovative alternative to glass
Routing
Over A Gap
Using the router to ski-jump the gap
End
Grain Clean-up
How to smooth over end grain aggro
Cross
Halving Joints
Teetering on the workbench is resolved with a foot for support
Morticed
Stability
and simplicity are the guiding words for tackling morticing by router
Long
Bits
What do you do when timber is too big to handle?
Routing
The Waste
Bob Wearing explains how to remove waste from the sockets of
lap or drawer dovetails
Nuts & Bolts for Routing Aids
Fencing
A
fine adjusting fence for the router table