Routers & Router Tables
The Taunton Press, 2012.
$21.95; 176 pp.
This book was our latest giveaway. Lucky jrodri1 is the winner. His comment was chosen at random.
Router & Routers Tables consists of 19 articles pulled from past issues of Fine Woodworking. The book is broken into 3 parts: Routers and Bits, Router Tables, and Router Jigs and Techniques – covering the bases to make you a router expert in no time. The book also includes plans for four shopmade router tables. Whether your focus is for router precision, space saving, versatility, or all of the above, this guide will show you the smartest route to routers for accomplishing your best work.
Lucky jrodri1 is the winner. His comment was chosen at random.
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Comments
I use my router/router table on most of my projects and can use all the tips I can get.
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Sounds like a nice book to have in the collection. Thanks
Another giveaway! Sweeet ...
I need all the help I can get on using a router table ..
Don't know why my previous post said "I" because what I wanted to say was I have four routers and a table. My most used tool.
I've tried more router table designs than any other tool, and I'm still trying to find one I can live with for a long time. I'll bet this book would help!
Very versatile tool. I'd love to know more!
I love the smell of routing in the morning. It smells like . . . shaped wood. ;-)
I just picked up two routers and plan on building a table. I'd like to take a peek at this book for hints.
Another hat in the ring! Thanks!
This could help with my router table build-or-buy decision.
Sounds like very useful book. I've never won before but maybe this will be the winning entry.
Maybe this time!
Looks like a great book.
One of my first shop projects was a router table and use it to this day... The home made fence did get replaced with Incra but the rest has stood the test of time.
Yep, want that.
Looks a like an interested read. I'm curious.
A good router table is such a versatile work station. I would love to learn more from the book!
This book would definitely be helpful
I just built a router table! I need this!
Maybe I can get a REAL table made instead of using that plastic one that came with my router. Can you say storage space?
As an elderly gent residing in the antipodes about to retire and pick up my tools again as a retiree I realy need this book as I can't afford to pay for it on the pension I will be recieving ;-)
I watched my father build amazing cabinets and other items out of wood using nothing more than a simple 10 inch contractors table saw and without the benefit of any books or the Internet. I wonder what he could have accomplished if he would have had access to all of what Fine Woodworking provides....
I think the book should be sent to me - go on, you know you want to ;)
Great chance to feed the addiction!
This would be great as I am in the process of building a router table...pick meeee !
I just received my new router table. This book would be great!
count me in
Tips and techniques for better woodworking? I'm in!
Why not?
I'm all for better education, better yet if it is FREE !
I need this!
As with all of these books, it would be nice to have a list of the original articles that make up the book. That way I would know if I needed the book because I was missing the articles.
please ole please give it to me ;)
Count me in.
I must have this book please.
HI:
This would be a great Book to add to my limited Library. It would help me be a better Router user. Thank for the chance to win one.
Count me in. Thanks.
SOunds like a great book, would be great to have.
I could always use a new book
Oh yes, please add me to the drawing. And feel free to pick me!
Yep!, count me in
I would love to ad this book to my library!
I love Routers...
A router table is on my to do list shortly so I could surely enjoy this book.
Well, this looks to be an interesting book! I can always use a few tips when it comes to routing.
Thanks for the opportunity!
The tips/techniques from the book will definitely help me build my skills.
I'm feeling lucky.
I could use this book.
Thanks, I would love a chance to win.
Please and Thank you !!
I have been thinking of a new router table, and this book looks like it could be helpful
Just bought another router, and now have 5 or 6, but no table since I have a Craftsman moulder and thought it was enough. Not so; a router table can do what a moulder can't.
oh yes please...... let me know when available to buy also please
Would love to include this book in my library! Thanks!
Count me in
I can always use new tips and tricks for using my router.
My router scares me! Need a book like this to help me through my fears so that I can take my router out of the box
I'd love to win the book on Routers and router Tables.
Love more tips & tricks about routing!
Definitely room for this one.
I need to make a new router table and I am sure that Routers & Router Tables from the editors of Fine Woodworking will be a valuable resource of ideas for this project and also the many tips and techniques will be a gold mine on how to use the router table afterwards.
This would be nice, a friend has borrowed a book on routers for 3 years now...
Of course we all want the book, but to say we want the book is just boring. I want the book to increase my creative skills! To tap into the authors knowledge and pull out some new ideas, something that i can say, wow that's a great idea, and put to use, not put on a shelf. I have a router, i use it to route coves, but what else is out there? there is a whole world of new ideas, waiting to be discovered, woods to be conquered! Trees to be cut down to form building materials to which my hands can craft into something that has meaning to someone,,, this my friends, this is why I would like this book!
this would be a welcome addition to my woodworking library
Would be a great addition to my classroom to give the students another source of information besides their old teacher:)
I recently got a new porter cable router and need to build a router table. I would be happy to report back on the book and how building the table goes.
I could certainly use some help and ideas for a router table!
Send it to ME...please.
Mel
need to biuld router table. book would be very helpful
I am just about to build me a router table to get by on. I would love to have this book. I am planning on building the ultimate router table in the near future, and with the help of this book I could accomplish it quickly. Please choose me!
I am a new to woodworking and would love to have this book to start my collection and if finewoodworking picks me I could biuld a router table for my bosch 2.25 router that I love so do a new guy a favor pick me please.Thanks for the oppertunity.
I'm getting ready to build a new router table. I'm sure this book is full of great ideas for it.
I need to build a new router table.
I am setting up to build a router table. The timing could not be better.
More knowledge on routers and tables... count me in.
I'd like to win this book.
I need a book like this!
What a great looking book. Count me in I would love to learn more!
I have recently purchased a new router table, and I am eager to learn about learning to use it. This new book looks right on point.
A project that's been on my burner for awhile.
Looks like a great book for stepping up my router skills.
Thanks,
--- Steve Heil
Looks like a winna!
Looks like something I could use to expand my skill set.
BTW, isnt it Thursday Oct 18? :)
Yup, CedarTim, you are right. S/b Thursday 10/18 - I'll fix it. Thanks, B
I would like to be a wizard-ess with a router.
mine
Ya got me.
I could certainly use all the router table help I could get :)
I'm working on building my first workshop in my basement and could definitely use some direction with choosing a router and router table. Regardless of who wins the book I always find this website extremely helpful for finding woodworking information. Thanks guys!
I think this book would be a great addition to a novice woodworker, like myself :)
I'm looking to develop my router skills. This would be a good tool.
Future high school woodshop teacher (Hopefully) would love to have this as another resource. cannot afford im a poor college student.
That's a great looking router table on the cover of the book, very much like I want to build.
Having the book would be a bonus for any shop. For those of us that are in the group that looses, refer to http://www.patwarner.com
I would love to add this book to my library on woodworking and tools the library has about 500 books some duplicates but I DONT HAVE THIS ONE AND WOULD LOVE TO BUY A FULL SET
I could use a good router howto book.
I have so many different plans about how I want to built my routing table that I might need this book to help me decide!
I'm a novice, bought my first router, I sure could use some instruction. Maybe a router book?
I have a Router...and I need help.
I would love to add this book to my library
this would be a good book to add to my library. Jim
I'm prepared to get in a Row ter get this book!
Violence it may be, but Collet what you want!!
Don't take a fence, but a man's got dado what a man's got dado!!!
;-)
This book will be a perfect addition to my research library!
Mine,mine, mine! :)
Oegan - I'm not sure I would have gone that route..
Oegan - I'm not sure I would have gone that route..
I would love this book.
That would make a perfect addition to my library. Thanks for the chance.
Fine woodworking has tremendously helped me with my woodworking as a begginer.
FW's articles and books are the best source of useful tool tips I've ever found. I'm just about to build a router table (a DW625 and Incra table insert are sitting ready an arm's length away as I write) and I can't wait to read this new book.
COME TO PAPA, BABY!
This is the only woodworking magazine I have subscribed to simply because of its quality
Wow! Free Book?! I'll take it!
Awesome - count me in!
I m in :)
I really do need all the help I can get.
Love this stuff!!
I could use the info.
Routers have always been one of my favorite tools.
DB
FW Router articles are really good. I particularly like Pat Warner's writings.
Robin Johnston
Count me in . I think I am under using my router and I would love to expand on this skill.
let's try again
I NEEED a router book!
Love what you are doing!
help me out here. i need the plans for a router table.
I could use that book
I have a router that is much neglected and could use a table in order to become more useful!
I'd value anything that came from Fine Woodworking.
There is always something you can gain from having a great book like this on the shelf. I built my router table 15 years ago and have modified it over the years using techniques from books such as this...and indispensable tool!
As a beginner wood worker this might be the perfect book to have!
I am new to routing and would love to learn more about routing and how to build a great router table. This book sounds just like what the doctor ordered.
My shop definitely needs a router table - it would be very helpful to see some different design options.
I have sighed up woodworking.com a couple days ago.
Let,s see if I have a beginners luck.
I was delighted to receive your email announcing Fine Woodworking router book "giveaway." Upon opening the email, however, I was upset to learn the so-called giveaway was actually a contest. Pretty deceptive if you ask me. Definitely disappointing, and certainly disturbing.
Always good things from Fine Woodworking
1:136, better odds than the lottery, plus all the info in one place. I'm in.
1:136, better odds than the lottery, plus all the info in one place. I'm in.
Great publication!!!! Keep it up.
I would like to see what if anything hasn't been written on this subject in this new book that hasn't been covered in the zillion books already written on routers.
It'd be great to have this book, with all the FWW router articles in one place. Thanks!
My other books from FineWoodworking have always been excellent, so I'll give it a try. Better odds than the lottery indeed, but then it's not $200 million either!
If this book is as good as the articles in FW, it's worth the price and I'd love to have it. Winning it would be even better. The info from the magazine is very well written and easy to follow.
Just getting started, so this would help kick off what I hope will be a lifelong hobby.
this book would be a welcome addition!
seria el libro ideal para mis elaboraciones, sigan asi
Routers, especially when used with a competent table and a few of the myriad jigs available, are perhaps the single most versatile tool in all of woodworking. This book could be ten times more extensive than it already is and STILL not scratch the surface of router use.
I want it, I need it, Can't wait for it. Your books are the greatest so if I don't win I will buy. Thanks for the giveaway.
It sounds like a great book.
I am interested in the book because I consider the router a "must have" power tool.
I'd love to have this book.
I know about a router from my dad. Growing up i would help him build things and make furniture to show him having a girl instead of a boy is not bad. I watched him and he taught me alot. Now I still enjoy redoing furniture and be proud of what I make, my new husband did not beleive me that I can work with wood. I showed him and he was impressed. I would make more wood projects but just being married money is tight, so I go to yard sales and try and find old furniture to redue. I miss my dads router and what it can do....learning more about a router as I beleive this magazine shows would be an honor to have. My dad is still alive and when ever I can I send him pics of what I have done. Thanks for listening Jamee
I've used a couple of commercial tables that leave me looking for something that really works. Hope this provides that.
Routing is an important operation in wood work, this book would be a handy asset in anyone's shop. My look forward to the results, keep up the look work.
Am about to purchase my first router...hope this will help.
Pick me! Pick me!
This would be a nice birthday gift. My birthday is the 17th but it won't be much fun. I get to spend it in the hospital instead of working in my wood shop. Getting old is not for the timid!
Don't pick Goosenoose, Pick ME!
I really do need that book. Choose me.
"Wood" enjoy the book.
Just starting to use a router. All the help I can get is needed.
The instructional books are always helpful.
For built anything using wood, you must know how use a router correctly. And I hope use that tecnics here in Brazil too!
I read ther intro and yes the real key is controlling the motion of the router . I make the error of spinning the wrong way occasioanlly and think a re-read is going to be good
You can always learn something in a good book.
You are never too old to learn something new. I always enjoy a publication that teaches me a new and better way to do woodworking
This looks like a very useful book to have and a good read for those winter days when the woodworking bug strikes, but you can't get to your shop!
Always need to learn more about routers!
Looks like a good book, I would like to read.
Never too old to learn!
I've been procrastinating building a router table, unsure of the best design for my particular purposes and the router I own. So your book is just the thing I need to get me off my butt and build an awesome table that will be just right for me.
That book would ba very good addition to my library.
I love working with a router. this book could help me do it even better and more
Looks like an interesting book.
Nice! I'd be happy to read it.
Looking forward to perusing this one!
This would be a great addition to my library. Need to learn how to make theist of router and table.
I have been using a router table that I built when I first started woodworking, and would love to upgrade to a safer, and more accurate setup. I think this is just the book I have been looking for!
I've built two "router tables", they certainly don't look like router tables that anybody else has built. I'd love some guidance...
Been researching router table plans for several months to find just the "right" one! Still relatively new to the site and the "Fine" woodworking community. Been a "gross" woodworker for several years and enjoying the challenge%2Pr
I could really use this book!
This sounds like it would be a great addition to any wood worker library.
So far all I've got for a router "table" is a piece of plywood that I attached my router to underneath. Looking for some good plans to build a proper setup, so this book would be a welcome addition to my small but growing woodworking library.
I have been rereading past issues, but the new features on your web site etc. are far advanced. I believe the router book might be a good place to start. I have been retired a number of years and instead of repairs and new duties (pushing a shopping cart--I refuse) I would like to get started on the things I wanted to do when I retired.
I have the router/router table. I need some good ideas for a router cabinet and how to improve on my router jigs.
A router, powered and human powered is vital in my shop. I would like to see this book.
I've been kicking around the ideas for a router table for some time now. A 1 1/2 HP Craftman router was the first tool I ever bought. This book would be a great addition to my personal library. Thanks for the review and a chance to win it.
here it goes again, trying to at least win a book ;)
Routers are the most bestest tools. Me hope to win the book.
you all do know that these books are just compilations of past magazine articles....
Please!!
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