With a handful of standard bits and extraordinary jigs, fixtures, and techniques, this book shows everything from planing boards to making fluted dowels, crafting flawless cope-and-stick joints, and creating amazing spiral-beaded columns and finials.

Contents

Introduction

Boring
Crosshair Baseplate…1
Slotted Pilot Template…4
Boring Template…6
Shelf Support Template…12

Carving
Router Duplicator…19

Circle Cutting
Trammel Baseplate (Trick-Bag Basic)…39
Vacuum Trammel…44

Clamping Systems
Vacuum Clamping…50

Custom Baseplates
The Generic Baseplate…63

Dadoing and Grooving
T-Square (Trick-Bag Basic)…69
Routing Straightedge…75
Fractionating Baseplate (Trick-Bag Basic)…81
Center-Finding Baseplate…85

Dowel Joinery
Doweling Jig…89

Dowel Making
Dowel-Making Fixture…97
Dowel-Turning Jig…102

Drawer Making
Slot-Cutter Drawer Joinery…112

Edge Forming
Offset Baseplate (Trick-Bag Basic)…115

Flush-Trimming
Flush-Trimming Baseplate (Trick-Bag Basic)…119

Mortising
Mortising Jig (Trick-Bag Basic)…124
Shop-Built Slot Mortiser…131
Template-Mortising…145

Router Tables
Custom Router Table Top…156
Universal Router Mounting Plate…163
Bit Opening Inserts…173
Router Crank…177
Table Saw Extension Router Table…183
Horizontal Router Table…191
Bench-Top Router Table…203
Floor-Standing Router Table…212
Split Fence…237
Sleds…246
Featherboards…256

Surfacing
Surfacing Baseplate (Trick-Bag Basic)…264

Turning
Router Lathe…269

Appendix:
Jig-Making Materials and Hardware…298

Index…308