Customer Reviews

Router Methods of Work

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
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1 star:		(1)

 

 

This book is what I have grown to expect from Taunton Publishing, and the Editors at Fine Woodworking.

As a collection of the best tips on router use from Fine Woodworking Magazine, I assumed with out opening the cover that all of the tips would be well thought out and useful, and I wasn't wrong.

I keep my copy in my travel case for my routers, and refer to it frequently. Less so now than I did a year ago when I first bought it, only because I've learned a lot from it, and am starting to memorize it.

If you own a router, this book is a must own / read.

If you're looking for a book to learn how to use a router, this isn't it.

If you have some experiance using a router this is a great book. This book contains the best ideas that Fine Woodworking readers have come up with in the last 25 years. As future projects come along, I'll be checking this book often.

You can pick up a few tricks in this book but there are better choices.

Router Methods of Work provides hundreds of innovative methods to use the most versatile of all woodworking tools. From dado basics to fixtures for complex circular work, Router Methods of Work has the techniques to expand the capabilities of your router. It's all from Fine woodworking's Methods of Work column, the premier forum for woodworkers to share their best tips.

You'll learn about:

router setup and maintenance
router tables and mounts
router joinery
router dovetails

fluting, reeding, and milling
fixtures for curved and circular work

lots of great tips one of the best router books i have read, highly recommended, also get the table saw version of this book

Look at Charles Sharp's review I totally agree with him. Got this book today, nice book but not for the beginner.

I have to disagree with the reviewers who gave this book high marks. While Jim Richey is very knowledgeable, this book is a set of one-page clippings from various past magazines. The drawings are very basic, and there's not a single photograph to help the beginning to moderate woodworker. These tips are too basic for the advanced woodworker, so I really don't see an audience for this book. It didn't help me at all. There's nothing wrong with the book -- if you want to read about other people's woodworking. However, to help you build your router skills there are wiser ways to spend your money. Several are sold right here on Amazon.