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Routing, from Canadian Woodworking, provides practical tips and proven techniques for using your router safely, accurately, and effectively.
Routing Basics – Part 5: Joinery Bits
Without a bit, the router is just a fancy paperweight; but when you slip one of these joinery bits into the collet you unlock the potential of creating a multitude of strong and attractive joinery options for your projects.
Routing Basics – Part 4: Edge Profiling Bits
While square edges on furniture projects are commonplace, they don’t have to be the first or the last choice in edging.
Routing Basics – Part 3: Straight Bits
The ability to quickly change the bit in a router is one of the features that make it such a versatile tool in the workshop; in a few moments you can switch from a joinery bit to a decorative edge-profiling bit.
Routing Basics – Part 2: The Router
The router is one of the few tools that comes fully set-up and ready to go right out of the box. Insert a bit into the collet, set the depth of cut, and you’re ready to start routing.
Perhaps no more than forty or fifty years ago, grooving, decorative edge work and intricate joinery in most small wood shops would have been done by a wide range of hand tools.
The finger joint is a router joint that not only adds strength to glued-up boards, it can extend your scraps by joining them together end to end for use in a hidden area.
In addition to using the router to help make traditional joints, you can use the router and a single bit to make unique joints that solve specific joinery issues.
In addition to using the router to help make traditional joints you can use the router and a single bit to make unique joints that solve specific joinery issues.
Use your router as a biscuit joiner
Many projects need some form of joint. Biscuits not only hold projects together but also make aligning your stock very easy.
Router spring removal for Porter-Cable 693
Many woodworkers have plunge routers mounted in their router tables and can’t adjust the height of the routers as easily as they see me do it.
Router spring removal for Dewalt 625
Many woodworkers have plunge routers mounted in their router tables and can’t adjust the height of the routers as easily as they see me do it.
Hitachi M12V router adjustment
Find out how easy it is to adjust your hand held router.
