Woodwork with Router (Reader's Digest Woodworking) PDF
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WOODWORKING WITH THE WOODWORKING WITH THE ROUTER Professional Router Techniques and Jigs Any Woodworker Can Use Bill Hylton and Fred Matlack Illustrations by Frank Rohrbach Photographs by Mitch Mandel © 1988 by The Readers Digest Asesation, Ine Ilartiony © 1995 by teak Robbe Aight reserved. 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Rots (loa) 2 Woodwork, Malek Tite TE SVs 99 582085 ded 29.4911 Taite=in-Cue” Chnstoher Carag ‘An Dieter: oar Mazoce COpeatins Manger ila J Cassy Desig Tadeeublshita Civile Rayne you lave ayy quosons er exis eonerring thet lente ofthis Dok, pla wit ‘Hence Digest sitorrChi, Lense Refersnce Dos eaters Digs Road Panis NY 10570 esters igst ad he Regs logo re rgd tade- rma othe Readers Digest asco, Ine Aaveican Woodokes tren tank of RD Publisatons, os Visitoursebete a wwvereadenigessom. Autor: Bill Hyon and red Matai Copy Eon Bra Mentos Web ‘sm Diecioe nita Paterson Fook Designer ery O'Rren (Cover Designer: Fan Millon otegtophar. Mich Manel luster: Frank Rebrbich Pte in the United Stats of America S79 wES CONTENTS Introduction * vii Baseplate Materials... Routers = Upgrading the Mounting Serews ——— How to Werk Plassic The Motor 1 ; ‘Soues jor lasts ard Hereare The Collet 7 Clearig the Tito ricinus ee 7 4 Fence Rider Base ate mans nm he BASE nim ect Busepiate ‘The Baseplat smn 10 frames The Assembled Package R Laainele Bimmer asians 16 Bits 17 Design Ahern Cs Mancrints and Constraction Your Need t0 Know wns i! Constructing the eal Top Bit Linge a Keeping That Top FLAT Carbide-Free Bits ones 19 ‘A Router Mint-Tabi Jos Saring? wer Beneath the Tabletop. harp Catr yo 4% Mooring te Rout Shank Sice = 2 pions Using Bits .... 26 Dust Collection — BS BEC rman ‘Wat Rover so Usd BE CHE sos x atin My Rewer Tall an Plecirfying! Router 101 *33 Seting Up in 8 Wik Leads. 7 inet Router Table * 68 $87 ome me Feed Direction 0 Jas end Fixtures ~ 2 Horizontal Router Table* 74 Router Maintenance 2 SECU mn AB Honea Al SAV «snes Router Table Accessories» 80 CONTENTS ‘Template Guided Work= 139 ing Pin. Stand Alone Bit Guards, Fence Split Fence Slee Pir Rewer Arm pl a a) Changing Bis Setung the Br: Hetgh Choking Up on the Ba Controlling the Workpiece Using a Stenting Pin Fixing the Fence Special-Duty Control tea lube Mounted Router @ Sheper? Router Bench» 109 Sualing Yo BENE! on Shop Math Decorative Treatments «115 Profil Bite Edge-Reuting Techniques Magic on the Flee ~ Routing irim for Furnivure no us Three Setups 19 Making Templates. 14 Routing along a Templare 151 Feed Direction wits TSE Ula Basis en DL Jeinery Cuts | Pin Routing serine 160 Routing Curves and Gircle Tammels 162 Rouser Table Cicele Work 199 Overarm Pree smsinina 290. Oval CxttINg essen ira Pereiting In the Erejite 175 Template Guided Cuts stig TS Surfacing with the Router* 183 Flush Trimming, 183 Jointing wit 2 Romer 18 Thiceres8i9g su 92 Shaping Surfaces 197 Frame-and-Panel Constructi Making Frames soos 200 Making Panels - 206 Ratsing Panels with « Straight Bit... 212 Making Arcittectural Deors and Windows revoiny 214 CONTENTS Working Laminates *219 Edge Joints * 252 ‘The Material .. 219 Routing an Eege Joint PO 7 3 Cig Lamia Ba Solna! 28a Jer 2 Temiing Lmrate 220° Bsc Joinery witha ROME anny 38 Ojfse-Base Laminate Trimmer 24 ‘The Less Elegant Solutions oeone» 260 Tongieané Grove Js em 20 Shplap Joins CI 3s Spec ery Bis ™ Mortiseand-Tenon Joints +267 Dadoing and Grooving +225 The Base Pres ' Hand-Guided Through ©. 225 Hand-Routed Mortises 0.000 260 Fractionating Basep!ate 230 Designing the Joint sum 210 ‘Grooviag with an Edge Guide 233 ‘Table-Routed Mortises 276 A Homemade Edge 25 Routing Tenons - ~ 281 Cutting Denticulated Serips 236 Hand-Rowted Tenons 281 Grooving he Works Edge bi eter Table Tarsugh Cut 28 sts Stopped Cuts a 39 Lap Jotees 268, Bt Chose: ™ 2 x Dovetail Joints * 295, Hall-Blind Dovetail Jigs Rabbeting #244 Keller Templates The Leigh Jig Rabbeting with a Pilored Bit ae Precision Positianing Systems Rubeng alga 25 porenCahle's Omi Stopped Rabbers 245 Routed Tals, Hund-Cut Pins ... Wale Rates ma ae ee ai au ‘Siding Dovetail Joint + 308 Rabbeting an Assembled Box 248, Cutting the Joiat .. 308 Deep Rabbers 8 The Halj-Dovetail Rabbet 312 Custorn Rabbesing Baseplate 230 Drawers with @ Difjerent Dovetail... 314 rubbetng Curved or 250 Brewer Ba 3 Splined Miter Joint 317 CONTENTS ‘Spline and Dovetail Keys * 330 Flat Mites Fage Miers 324 The Box-Jointing Jig... Templave Guide Centered jig eta Spice “Using the Jig Swinging Fingers 0x Joi 317 320 3u4 v7 38 329 329 Making the ji 330 ‘Slowing om the FADE eon 332 ‘Swinging on a Template Guide 33 Spiining a Frame sme BH Hand-Routed SI 333 Patting the Keys nn oe Sources * 337 Index +338 INTRODUCTION The router is woodworking’: most versatile power tool. 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Get cat there and my that outer in aew apples ons You ay Adncover thet the oll way isnt the bes way “Ts book will be your basic router wooeworking msm Ills how te do al sers of woceworlarg Dpervions singe roure. There af jobs tha ra be Aone only wit #tenrer—elge eames and tropa fed work, toname wa, Ovaerjelt—eutsingouves, fest jelvery work—can be done exseptionlly well fits 4 router, thongh these are cthe= options in some stations, the ower woulda De you firs-cheice too forthe Jo>—e're willing 0 concede tha Bur the wer may be a reasonable sierative They" ead to she “hess” Hove todo job may Deeniestoassimlare fyou gasp why itsbemgdore 8 ert way And Knowing ky may ead yo to snot sway thas beter for you-unapbe better pri. Which Tess us o the ext pat Tal hese stations, Lares aways move than sway to do e guen thing. Fred and V have ice prety Cnscigatioasly to find move than ene way to de every prmtion we tll: sox 19 this book Gone thaa. ene ‘paterorerisd anpnos ha is). Forexam,a plunge routermay make az aperston simple. Ne expla ow Buc aot everyone has a plunge woter 9 we expla. how todo shen wal a finec-base router 90 (she's posable), dnd Call, you may want w ay doing he ery samecperaion'en «router table sahow inde that scovered as well “Taotgh he apening chapet sor suters and if lowed by one orbits, odworking with dhe Rewer sit rev a sacy ang guide. What we me tying wo dos pen your eyes tn he variety of weatersavllaleandtn Satres ard cenfignsione thar you may na know abot Instead of tei you what igs to fn, we shoe you what jigs to mae. Aig may Beas simple as an over ‘zed baseplate, bor ifs never more complex thin an Sdjustable trarsinel, Sure, wean open you walltand buy aloof these igs, bet why bya iit you can make it (is always secmed eid ha aks who consider them selves to be woodworkers would buy tems they c= asian nove eccaomc Ij—make themselves ) ‘Our proertsnclude several diferent router tales, ‘ching one in which 1m rer stead berzontally [coffers an “angle ofatsck that ahessome jobe easier roperlorm har. they world be ona regular route ble ‘Toners the wlie cay couter able you make, we bhave a range of aoescoies nit gums, fences, sles (which ate ike your uble sew’s mie guage) and a variety of hold downs ard guides, Most sre sump ingly exsyto male Teall hs information orignal OF couse not. Cute ting 6 dado ts cutang a dade. Someries the best tecknlquss ae the ied-and-true ones "What is oul, youl ind ise legal, heroug, inept preseniadion, Fo: this to bem nic operating rani Ws got to cove those sli, radon tech rages, aswel athe exci, ar derivations Likewise, the infomation mast be cag” :0 find, complete and clemy preeites. 1's got to be doun-co ran snl practical: When you've got aqueston, when you cant Teuverber an operation's exact sequeice of step, 8 ‘want ta be able to Bip 0 he proper oage without thumbing thnoagh the eatce be. You need we be Sonfdent thatthe e2eration is covered, and that is Eovated thoroughly and uncersuanes ly ancthat what's being preerted sit some specuistor, however well: smtentioned INTRODUCTION A base operating anual is exactly what we were inying to produce here, a systematic, thorough guide- 19 teuter wowxlworking. So we've incidel a index and eress-rferenses, Cuiting ips 8a lot ke ig er exo yu sees from ene duper co snather share auch telersrics partnent ‘Wier we've invented technigue or uot, we've weed tin the woodworking shop. Thats to the ‘coopesation and generosity of router and bst mam facturers, weve becn able to orave eu our tee nies using » simply capital asorement of otters and bits. Ard we had a ready supy of entcism and fcvice, swells an aoundance of suggestions, (rm four soodworking coleagues, There's nothing in hte dat we sen conticent about, nding that we havent siccessally come Wha's ners is not che sim total of what we tried, of course, We Left out lecnigaes that proved to be probkanatie, excessively ino, oo sported, or simply hazards ‘what you yl finds the asi on: Bil ane Teed snes exelent outer tec ‘The Authorial Team Bill Hylton has been writing and edling wood working books fo: 20 yeas, He i theauihov of Bull Te Beer Yourself, #8 sell as the backyard building books Projects for Outdoor Living and Furniture Fred Matlack as been building projects for mae nes and hooks lar 12 years. He hes designed and onstrated Kurdveds 3f projects, ranging ‘tom solst foul divers to toys 1 aatigue reproductions. Frank Rolubacl cated Woodring with he Renters course lasiraioms. 4 Tontime crate Fisuns, and Setups, bigs, He ib regular f Wndvorke magazine foniristor “0 An Mitch Mandel ‘oo the patos in Woodring wth fhe Router A photographer foe more than 12 9 ‘Much sca avd and accomplished woodwoike: He is | comiriating writer and photographer for American eedworker magazine (alt ghd Bl, Fred,photagrapher Miteh Mande, book designer Jerry (Orie, and ilastrtor Frank Rabibach vith ROUTERS The basic router is extremely simple. Te general tes, i's @ moter and seven! erucel eangals. The motor (Gn range up to about 35 horse: pover und ean tun saywhere om Oneo pp co around 3,000.4 ovary cer is Btzed inte the collet the hover god oh ute: moe Wis dlevr dein che parest form, omplcaze things ita Thug vary of eaters 6 available (Ser the chaptey "Bis.") Being the business end of the machine, the cuts largely determine what you ‘an co with he wouter, ‘Thee ae four ma router the mar the cole a the bssep ie ‘Themevars the ype row asa ‘universal moor. the same sor chars used your ether portable power tools Cour tab saw, jimer, and coher stationary tools see ifr lead of mora called an indaction rotor) The poser ratings of the ‘rotors used rowers range fom ¥: horsepower up 19 abous 34 horsemen. he tne power the ‘morn has, tiger the routers “Tie cals simple bt ace dru. Altace oe end ofthe rmovaranmarathokis tekst sah ‘motarcan make the Bespin, Designs vary, ad simnecolles ae inns ‘ally eres than hers ll calles, owever, lw yu to charge it, erate bases what olds the rua, posidaning tin relation to dae work Ttusuely incorporates andles «0 the operate? ean hold ‘ral nur the machige, One ote ose ciel lemons of re has is its deptoeut adjustment mech- anism, There are ro fundamental types of Bases: the fie! hace an! the plage base. The ype of base yur router has fx petal to what your router does, hos it handles, and what i cost. “The baseplate sa planicaole an the bottom of hebrse eserves as bearing Becween the router and the ror, tabluag the router to slide Sony actss the work without smarngit Let's take a cose lok at cack of she four pars THE MOTOR Here's curiosity. Mentally chock ‘over the power tals you have, ane those you'd have. What othe measure of wily a eapariy mest ‘oumonly used with each 003 Does omer, depen fupon its Roeseposer rating a che cular sew chess, oad se fn tens of te Dade dames fist. Dri? Cheek enact foe parses tease from. ek te solemn fot all presses. ard es6? Depth of the dant, Plane or joiner? Leigh of che cating lees Sander? Sie of che sanding area or belt, Hark ne vowter hebose- powerteingyei meron. Youre fing irl that's thaoughoun his boos. know dat because we veal ready aniten most) There ae some othee measures th might be ngfulcelle: capacity. range ff moar rave, haseplae damerer (erlengrs ane width orarcetlinear ‘pe), weght, Bur she pover cmveys the sizeof he bits i wll ds, ard suggests a sie and weigh
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