TECHNIQUES OF ROUTING

Jim Phillips

Northwood Ltd, 1980

This is the first book to be devoted exclusively to one of the most versatile and useful tools available to professional or amateur woodworker. It can be used for jobs as simple as bevelling the edge of a shelf and as complex as making an accurate reproduction of a Chippendale chair. With the right accessory, it can be used to trim plastic laminates and suchlike products to an absolutely clean finish; to cut dovetails and staircase housing, accurate to a fraction of a millimetre; to carve letters, figures, or anything you please on wood; and to turn table legs or chair arms on a lathe.

Almost every job which needs to be accomplished, using wood or wood products such as hardboard, can be done more quickly, more accurately and more easily using a router. All these use – and many more – are covered in this informative and exciting guide to an important and often under-rated tool. There is also a comprehensive appendix which shows many of the cutters available and explains their particular functions.

A scarce hardback copy, the book is in very good condition. There is no dust jacket, rather, pictorial cover boards.