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Craftsy

Handheld Router Techniques & Tips

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Overview

Description Discover the best applications for your handheld router with professional woodworker and renowned author Paul Anthony. Start with how to set up your router. Get crucial safety and lighting tips. Then, learn to create perfect profiled edges with no tearout. Get confident flush-trimming cabinet face frames, solid wood edgings, splines and plugs. Quickly cut accurate dados, joint short pieces for a dead-straight edge, easily create slots for biscuit joinery and more. Use your router to make loose-tenon joints, through-mortises in thick stock and precise hinge mortises. Achieve perfect circles and arcs with a simple trammel. Create identically shaped parts with template routing. Plus, make a variety of jigs that boost your efficiency and accuracy. Learn how to use a handheld router like a pro.

Syllabus

  • Class Preview
  • Introduction to Handheld Routers & Bits
  • Setup, Safety & Lighting Tips
  • Profiling Edges
  • Flush Trimming
  • Router Joinery
  • Mortising
  • Shaping

Taught by

Paul Anthony

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