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Routing & Shaping

The router is today's most versatile woodworking power tool, but to get the most out of it you've got to know all about router bits, router jigs, work-holding fixtures, dovetail jigs, and other essential accessories. Professional woodworkers rely on the wood shaper, or on the router table, for cutting shapes, mouldings and other profiles in solid wood. See also Woodworking Techniques.

On sale routing & shaping books

book cover unavailable Popular Mechanics Workshop: Router Fundamentals: The Complete Guide (Popular Mechanics Workshop)  NEW!

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]

$17.95
Sale! $14.36
book cover unavailable Wood Magazine: Router Tips, Jigs & Techniques (Wood Magazine)  NEW!

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]

$19.95
Sale! $15.56
book cover unavailable Router Joinery Workshop: Common Joints, Simple Setups & Clever Jigs

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]

$19.95
Sale! $15.96
book cover unavailable Router Methods of Work: The Best Tips from 25 years of Fine Woodworking (Methods of Work)

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]

$12.95
Sale! $10.36
book cover unavailable The Accurate Router: Quick Setups and Simple Jigs (Cambium Handbook)

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]

$14.95
Sale! $11.66
book cover unavailable The Complete Illustrated Guide to Shaping Wood (Complete Illustrated Guide)

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]

$39.95
Sale! $26.37
book cover unavailable The New Router Handbook

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]

$17.95
Sale! $13.46
book cover unavailable The Router Book: A Complete Guide to the Machine and its Accessories

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]

$19.95
Sale! $13.57
book cover unavailable The Router Table Book

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]

$19.95
Sale! $15.96
book cover unavailable The Shaper Book

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]

$19.95
Sale! $13.57
book cover unavailable Working with Routers (New Best of Fine Woodworking)

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]

$17.95
Sale! $12.21

More routing & shaping books

book cover unavailable Router Techinques: An In Depth Guide to Using Your Router (Weekend Woodworker)  NEW!

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]

$19.95
book cover unavailable Decorative Routing: Jigs & Techniques

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]

$25.95
book cover unavailable Router Bench Guide

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]

$14.95
book cover unavailable Router Joinery

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]

$24.95
book cover unavailable Router Projects and Techniques (Best of Fine Woodworking)

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]

$15.95
book cover unavailable Router Tips & Techniques

Bob Wearing   Bob Wearing shares 34 jigs, devices and techniques for the router, in this collection of reprints from the British magazine The Router.... [read more]

$12.95
book cover unavailable Routing: A Workshop Handbook

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]

$14.95
book cover unavailable Woodwork with Router (Reader's Digest Woodworking)

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]

$19.95

New items!

Popular Mechanics Workshop: Tables & Chairs (Popular Mechanics Workshop)
$19.95

Build functional and good-looking tables and chairs from the pages of Popular Mechanics. Along with... [read more]

Small Intarsia: Woodworking Projects You Can Make
$14.95

This book of small items for yourself or gifts includes 13 ready-to-use patterns with step-by-step... [read more]

American Furniture 2003 (American Furniture)
$60.00

Begun in 1993, this annual provides a forum on American furniture history, technology, connoisseurship, and... [read more]

Wood Magazine: Scrollsaw Patterns (Wood Magazine)
$19.95

With techniques and projects from their best articles, Wood Magazine has selected these 80 patterns... [read more]