Great book on routing

Hi

I bought a copy of Woodworking with the Router : Professional Router Techniques and Jigs Any Woodworker Can Use by Hylton and Matlack a couple of weeks ago and have been browsing through since. This book is fantastic! It is very comprehensive while still being concise. It covers every basic topic I can think of about the router. There are a few router table designs in the book, including a horizontal table. It even covers the finer ergonomic points of router purchasing and how to choose and work plastics for a router table insert or router bases.

It is easily the most "complete" tool reference book I have read. In comparison, I have also have "The Bandsaw Book" by Lonnie Bird, "Router Magic" also by Bill Hylton, and "Table Saw Techniques" by Roger Cliffe, which are great books but don't come close to the scope and depth of "Woodworking with the Router".

I agree with you, it is a good book, and in fact I used their plans for a router table, but I actually found Hylton's book "Router Magic" to be a little less dated looking, and it seemed to have more practical jigs etc.
Just my view, but nevertheless they are both worth a look, as is the Lonnie Bird Bandsaw book you mentioned.

Must be a good book if price is anything to go by
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Step-by-step instructions describe how to design and build three different types of router tables: a portable job-site table, a shop table, and a contractor's table.
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ISBN: 1558704590
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 159



Author: McPherson, John
Imprint: Betterway Books
Publisher: F&W Publications Inc
Date Published: 31/12/1997
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