Thread: Which Router?

Originally Posted by Auld Bassoon

Hi MaxD,

- but a word of caution: make sure that you get some proper tuition as these can be vicious beasts perfectly able to remove fingers, arms, etc without a pause...

Most of the skills I've aquired in the past have been through just having a go, reading and watching hours and hours of Norm on the New Yankee Workshop.
As I don't know anyone that I can go and ask for advise apart from you guys, should I maybe sign up for a TAFE course or join a club to learn the essentials?

Look for a wood club near you some one on this forum might know of one.There they will proberly have one, or have a member who has one that would be willing to show you.The tafe might have a course you could do but the fundermentals of a spindle are the same as a router table just on a bigger scale.Safety is the same keep your fingers ,arms ,head ,leg away from the spiny thing in the middle of the table and you will be fine.All jokes a side you have to learn about setting up the cutter blocks changing blades and you can improve safety with a power feed.Unless you bought a 3 phase industrail machine you would only be using small cutter blocks with blade limiters.And most single phase spindles around have router collets for them so you could use them anyway.I would only look at the 3 horse power spindles with at least a 30mm spindle so factor that into your price