Bill Hylton's Ultimate Guide to the Router Table

The first of its kind, this router table user’s manual covers the basics, from checking your setup, changing bits and using a starting pin and fence to feed direction, controlling the workpiece, and making damage-free cuts. It features a variety of cutting profiles as well as advice on frames and panels, cutting joints and using templates.

But this handy guide isn’t a buyer’s resource or a construction plan for any router table. Rather, it provides all the information you’ll need to make use of your table regardless of brand or specific model, whether it’s shop-built or purchased, freestanding or benchtop, full-featured or rudimentary, etc. Even if your table is different from the ones highlighted in this guide, at base all router tables are the same and this manual will apply to yours.

Softcover, 128 pages, 2007.