Woodworking with the Router: Professional Router Techniques and Jigs Any Woodworker Can Use (American Woodworker)

More than 10 years after its original publication, this clear and accessible guide continues to serve woodworkers of all skill levels with a comprehensive offering to the router and its many uses. Packed with the techniques and tricks needed to unleash the router’s incredible potential, this manual includes the best ways to cut decorative edgings and moldings, surface wood and joint edges for glue-ups, shape furniture parts, and cut curves, circles, and ovals. With chapters on how to make cope-and-stick frames; raise panels; and cut strong, practical joints of all kinds—including dadoes, rabbets, laps and half-laps, dovetails and sliding dovetails, and mortise-and-tenon—this updated full-color offering complements each step-by-step, instruction-based exercise with hundreds of large, clear photos and drawings that teach crafters about using a router safely and productively.

About the Author

Bill Hylton is the author of Country Pine Furniture P (more…)

Jigs & Fixtures for the Table Saw & Router: Get the Most from Your Tools with Shop Projects from Woodworking's Top Experts (The Best of Woodworker's Journal series)

Designed to make complicated woodworking techniques easier, faster, and safer, this collection is filled with 25 projects selected from the pages of Woodworker’s Journal, and includes tips to help woodworkers make the most of both their machinery and their time. Focusing on techniques applicable for table saws and routers, this book is filled with innovative projects, each including detailed plans, full-color photography, and the expert instruction needed to build with confidence. Projects include precision cross-cut jig for the table saw, circle cutting jig for the router, and adjustable box joint jig for the table saw, among others.  In this essential reference guide are helpful shop tips and other practical woodworking information.  

About the Author

Woodworker’s Journal is a leading woodworking periodical read by more than 500,000 active woodworkers. Intended for craftsmen of any skill level, the magazine has been published (more…)

The Best Jigs and Fixtures for Your Woodshop: 37 Projects That Provide Clever Solutions to Common Problems (Woodworking)

This book compiles 50 of the best jigs submitted by craftsmen from all over the world to the editors of Popular Woodworking Books. Each innovative, clever and simple project provides an ingenious solution to what was otherwise a complex or impossible building situation. Start-to-finish instructions and step-by-step photos for each project ensure jig-making success. It’s all the information woodworkers need to make their time in the shop more productive, fun, easier and safer than ever before.

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Jigs & Fixtures for the Table Saw & Router: Get the Most from Your Tools with Shop Projects from Woodworking's Top Experts (The Best of Woodworker's Journal series)

Designed to make complicated woodworking techniques easier, faster, and safer, this collection is filled with 25 projects selected from the pages of Woodworker’s Journal, and includes tips to help woodworkers make the most of both their machinery and their time. Focusing on techniques applicable for table saws and routers, this book is filled with innovative projects, each including detailed plans, full-color photography, and the expert instruction needed to build with confidence. Projects include precision cross-cut jig for the table saw, circle cutting jig for the router, and adjustable box joint jig for the table saw, among others.  In this essential reference guide are helpful shop tips and other practical woodworking information.  

About the Author

Woodworker’s Journal is a leading woodworking periodical read by more than 500,000 active woodworkers. Intended for craftsmen of any skill level, the magazine has been published (more…)

Danny Proulx's 50 Shop-Made Jigs & Fixtures: Jigs & Fixtures For Every Tool in Your Shop (Popular Woodworking)

Woodworkers take great pride in building shop-made jigs and fixtures that showcase their skill and craft. Now, in his final book, the late master woodworker, Danny Proulx offers a look into the jigs and fixture techniques perfected in his more than 30 years of woodworking experience in a book that includes: -50 projects, each of which can be completed using scrap wood and simple hardware -Step-by-step photos with clear, concise text and enlarged technical drawings for ease of reference -An inclusive approach, allowing projects to be adapted to different brands of tools Teaching woodworking tools a new trick or two is easy with the hints and insights in this book!

About the Author

In addition to operating his own custom kitchen cabinet shop, Danny Proulx was a contrbuting editor to Cabinet Maker magazine, and has published other articles in magazines including Popular Woodworking and The Woodshop News. He was a great teacher, who lea (more…)

Jigs & Fixtures for Curvilinear Woodworking

About the Actor

David Marks has won numerous awards for his woodworking including two NICHE Awards in 2001 and three time winner of Best of Show in Artistry in Wood in Sonoma County, CA. He has hosted 91 episodes of the television show “Woodworks” on DIY and on the How To Channel in Australia. Examples of his work appear in numerous publications such as Fine Woodworking Design Books 3, 6, 7, the Guild Source Book 7, Furniture Studio The Heart of Functional Arts, as well as many others. David is a current member of the AAW, Baulines Crafts Guild, Sonoma County Woodworkers Assc. and of the Furniture Society. You can see his work at his website www.djmarks.com.

David Marks, recognized internationally as a master craftsman of fine furniture, turner, sculptor, and host of the television show “Woodworks” on DIY, shares decades of experience and fine craftsmanship as he takes you step by step through the process of creating an award winning dining ta (more…)

Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guide to Jigs & Fixtures (Complete Illustrated Guides (Taunton))

This book, in the “Complete Illustrated Guide” format covers jigs and fixtures, a subject of perennial interest to woodworkers. Jigs are like clamps. As the saying goes, “You can never have enough of them.” Jigs, simply put, are devices, sometimes shop-made but now often available commercially to enable woodworkers to do something more than once. For example, some jigs are fences that ensure straight cuts or templates capable of guiding tools to create a certain shape time after time. Woodworkers love jigs and fixtures for the same reason they are drawn to woodworking-designing them is about figuring out how to do something. All woodworkers are secretly engineers and inventors, and jig design and construction is a way to indulge that need. Some woodworkers love jig-making so much, they never build anything but. Simple or elaborate, jigs are an essential part of woodworking. This book, authored by prominent woodworking author, Sandor Nagyszalanczy, is organized like his (more…)