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…)

Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking Set: Three Step-By-Step Guidebooks to Essential Woodworking Techniques

As a tribute to Tage Frid who passed away in 2004, combined with the 30th anniversary of The Taunton Press, this three-volume slipcase set is the most complete, authoritative guide to woodworking for readers of all skill levels. The books in the slipcase include: “Book 1: Joinery,” “Book 2: Shaping, Veneering, Finishing,” and “Book 3: Furnituremaking,” The techniques illustrated in these books are demonstrated step by step, with clarity and organization that allows readers to understand and carry out virtually any woodworking project. This is a limited edition.

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LATHES AND TURNING TECHNIQUES FROM FINE WOODWORKING MAGAZINE

Learn the secrets of production turning. In these 36 Fine Woodworking articles, woodworkers reveal the secrets of production turning and share information on decorative folk turning, spindle turning, and sharpening and honing tools. There are also techniques and projects — everything from traditional nutcrackers to 3-ft.-wide burl platters.

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