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Bill Hylton is the author of a dozen or so woodworking
books (including one my favorites - 'Illustrated
Cabinetmaking'). He's also a regular contributor to most of the
major American woodworking magazines. He knows a lot about
woodworking, and from the photos that I've seen of his work,
he's none too shabby a woodworker to boot.
This new book is a revised and expanded edition of his popular
1993 book of the same name. If it has to do with routing, then I
would be amazed if you can't find it in this book.
The 26 chapters cover everything you want, or likely will every
need to know about using routers in the workshop. While the book
will be of inestimable value to the novice woodworker, it has
enough meat in it to satisfy all but the most experienced router
professional.
Topics include: how to use the router safely, making and using
jigs and templates, making and using router tables (including a
section on making a horizontal router table), how to use the
router to trim laminates, plus sections on using the router for
making circles, curves, frame and panel joints, laminates,
dadoing, grooving, rabbeting, edge jointing, mortise and tenon
joinery, lap joints, dovetailing, miters and box joints (and I
probably missed a few).
The book is very well written, and amply supplied with
photographs and illustrations - over 450 of them. I liked the
fact that many of the photos are close-ups - it really helps to
amplify the text. I found the photos to be first rate - well
lit, sharply focused and well composed. Just about every
technique that Bill uses has a photo.
The illustrations in the book are also well done. Along with the
photos and clearly written text they make duplicating any of the
numerous jigs in the book very easy.
This book is really a gold mine of practical, technical
information to help you get the most out of your router. A
definite 'keeper'.
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Woodworking with the Router
Bill Hylton
Fox
Chapel Publishing
Available through your local bookseller
0762108002
376 pages, hc/sc, 7 1/2 x 10 3/4
2006
$19.50 sc, $39.96 hc
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© Canadian Woodworking
Magazine, 2007
Note: This review originally appeared in the Nov
2006 eNewlsetter
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