 How can a router help you as a woodcarver?
- Planing: flatten awkward surfaces (for joints or to remove warpage for example)
- Relief Carving: removing background waste around the subject of a relief carving, or rendering different levels of ground within the main carving.
- Plunge boring: neatly drop depths within the elements of a detailed carving with a narrow cutter and a depth stop.
- Bench slots: a better option than a hole for inserting the screw fixing of a holding device or carvers screw.
- Mouldings: start with a blank, profiled strip of wood into which the carver incises repeat patterns.
- Rebating frames for carvings; or as part of the original wood.
And how about:
- Jointing planed boards?
- Splines between boards for panels?
- Rebated batons at the back of panels to stop warping?
- Circular or oval panels?
- Repeat curves?
- Mortises and tenons for your benches....?
I have worked with routers a lot in woodcarving but found a great deal to learn in this book.
Routing for Woodworkers contains the complete low-down on the router: bits, jigs and fixtures you can make, traditional and new techniques .
An outstanding book for its breadth and depth of knowledge - a future 'bible'. Very well written and friendly; you can feel the experience. The photos are black and white and a bit dark and 'grainy', but clear enough for the job.
Aimed at the general woodworker, it contains lots that we carvers can use.
If you lack confidence in the router, are about to start using one, or feel you'd like to know more, here's the book.
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