Routing & Shaping

Rick Peters   If you already have a router, This is the manual you wish had come with it. If you're thinking of buying one,... [read more]

Jim Richey   If you're looking for new tricks to teach your router, buy this book. A treasure trove of clever solutions to not-always-standard problems,... [read more]

Lonnie Bird   Lonnie Bird guides the reader toward first visualizing the shape that needs to be made, then drawing it, and then choosing the... [read more]

Patrick Spielman   Includes router techniques from basic to advanced, plus many tips for making your own jigs. Covers joint cutting, safety, maintenance, over-arm or... [read more]

Pat Warner   Router maven Pat Warner tells all, sorts through the wide variety of routers on the market, and offers sound and practical advice... [read more]

Lonnie Bird   More than just a primer, this is a step-by-step guide to the shaper, from basic setups to cutting moulding profiles to designing... [read more]

Editors of Fine Woodworking   This series collects articles from Fine Woodworking magazine published between 1992 and 2002. Here are 25 articles about using your router, an... [read more]

Creative Publishing,Editors of Creative Publishing,Phil Schmidt   Many woodworkers find their routers indispensible tools for all kinds of carving and shaping. Here's a book for novice to intermediate crafters... [read more]

Wood Magazine   The experts at Wood Magazine provide technical advice, projects, and practical tips, for that most versatile woodworking tool, the router. In photos... [read more]

Jack Cox   Jigs and techniques for ornamental routing, including inlaid mirror frames, lidded boxes, platters and trays. Shows how to make scalloped and fluted... [read more]

Zachary Taylor   Here's a new addition to Sterling's popular bench reference series. Includes many jigs and fixtures, joints, templates and accessories.Just about everything a... [read more]

Gary Rogowski   The versatile router can be used to cut many different woodworking joints, here chronicled in great detail. Good photos and drawings. Excellent... [read more]

Carol Reed   Learn everything the router is capable of and take your woodworking to a more skilled and professional level. Choosing the right joint... [read more]

Dick Burrows,Fine Woodworking   The Best of Fine Woodworking series reprints technical articles from 1984 through 1996, in their original format. Here are 32 articles with... [read more]

Anthony Bailey   Powerful and versatile, the router can mould, joint and cut with ease. This handy guide takes the reader from his first router... [read more]

Ian J. Kirby   This is the essential guide to setting up and using today's most versatile woodworking tool. Ian Kirby decodes the seven fundamental guide... [read more]

Ernie Conover   The router becomes infinitely more versatile when you've got a good table for it. The little machine becomes a shaper capable of... [read more]

Bill Hylton,Fred Matlack   If there's a way to do it with the router, they'll tell you about it here-- and whether or not it's the... [read more]

The popular Danny Proulx provides plans for building toolboxes and workbenches that are both solid... [read more]

The long-awaited treatise on a master's techniques for turning bowls, vessels and spindles. A well-organized... [read more]

Here are three of Taunton's excellent reference volumes that provide overviews as well as details... [read more]

How to select, season, and build with any kind of wood This well organized and comprehensive... [read more]