Routing - Projects & Techniques for the Small Router

At the age of 28, Toyohisa Sugita began building his own 28ft (9m) cruising yacht. It took five and a half years to complete and launch. This experience was the starting point for his woodworking career. Since then, he has developed, manufactured and sold woodworking products; produced and sold woodworking videos and is currently a Lie-Nielsen distributor. He is the author of Super Epoch-making Woodworking Techniques (Studio Tuck Creative) and All About Sugita-style Sawing Wood (Ohm-sha), which advocates ‘Sugita-style’ sawing, meaning a precision woodworking technique that requires almost no power tools. Toyohisa lives in Tokyo, Japan.

Router trimmers are smaller, more manoeuvrable and cheaper than standard routers, and this comprehensive guidebook will teach you how to take full advantage of them in your woodworking. After covering the basics of operating a router trimmer, there are several detailed tutorials for using the router trimmer with fences and jigs. There’s also an extensive projects section, which includes several boxes, a wall-mounted shelf, a pegboard, chest, photo frame, cutting board and feather boards.

• 4 Introduction9 Chapter 1: Router Trimmer Basics27 Chapter 2: Hand-Held Routing63 Chapter 3: Trimmer Tables97 Chapter 4: Trimmer Projects239 Chapter 5: Planes255 About the Author