Router Table Safety Boost
Tool: Mushroom Mag Switch Manufacturer: General International A magnetic switch is a safety device that’s common on many new stationary tools. They’re quickly becoming a requirement [...]
Radial Router Jig
So tell me—how many jigs do you have scattered around your shop? Is it true that a guy can’t have too many, just like you can’t have too many clamps?...
How to make a Sliding Dovetail
Sliding dovetail joints are peculiar—sometimes, the two parts are meant to travel past one another; other times, they’re glued together. Whatever their purpose, making these joints is [...]
Tool Talk – Festool Router Table
On one end of the spectrum, there’s the router screwed to the underside of a piece of plywood, supported on sawhorses, with a board clamped across for a fence. On...
Tool Talk: JDS Multi-Router
The JDS Multi-Router recently passed its 25th anniversary. In all those years, there’s been only one relatively minor change to this venerable joint-making machine—a remarkable feat when [...]
Router Table with Nice Features, Nice Price
Router Table with Nice Features, Nice Price Looking for a full-featured router table? Don’t want to break the bank? If so, the Premium Die Cast Aluminum Router Table from Craftsman...
Router Table Box Joints
Router Table Box Joints Making box joints on a router table is a time-saving alternative to making them on the tablesaw. You don’t have to fuss with a dado set,...
Starting Block for the Router Table
Router bits that are guided by ball bearings make it possible to add a profile to a curved edge. If the entire piece is curved, it makes sense to do...
Making a Deluxe Router Table – Final Installment
This isn’t the simplest project you’ll ever make ,but it may be one of the most useful. It involves making mortise-and-tenon joinery and raised panels, fitting a drawer to its...
Jim’s Redesigned Router Table – Finished
This is it! The final installment on how to build a deluxe router table.
Router Table Revisited — Part Deux
It’s been interesting to make a drawer from MDF, plywood and pine. I am constantly amazed at the amout of scrap wood I have lying about my shop, garage and...
