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Getting the Most from Your Router
1h 58m 25s
FWW61065245
Access includes complete video series plus all class materials.
Instructor

Overwhelmed by the choices between routers and by the variety of router bits?

Don’t despair. Roland Johnson, Fine Woodworking Magazine’s power tool guru, will sort it all out for you.

Roland will explain all this:

The differences between routers

Recommendations for router bases

What’s important about shaft size

Tricks for adjusting your router table

Change the motor brushes

Pattern bit or flush trim bit – what’s the difference?

Make a shop-built router table

Clean and maintain your router bits

Add a foot switch

These noisy, dusty little machines can be woodworking wonders, IF you use them and maintain them properly.

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