Advanced Router Techniques
⚙️ SHOW NOTES — EPISODE #150: You can create some great things with a router, and also a whole lot of damage in an instant! Before CNC machines became the rage, you had to get creative with your router to handle any tricky situations. At the time of this filming, Tom doesn’t own a CNC, so he’s full of resourceful, or as he would prefer to say, “advanced” methods for using a router. In this episode, assuming you too are an old school aficionado with the router, he demonstrates some of those advanced methods, doing his best to avoid any catastrophic damage! (Closed captioned)
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• General Tom McLaughlin resource links: https://www.epicwoodworking.com/resources
• Horton Brasses – Makers of fine hardware: https://www.horton-brasses.com/
• Ball and Ball – Antique Hardware Reproductions and Restorations: https://www.ballandball.com/
⚙️ RELATED VIDEO RESOURCES
• How to Design a Queen Anne Footstool with Tom McLaughlin: https://youtu.be/mwCRfMshN9s
• Lombardi Trophy Replica Build with Tom McLaughlin: https://youtu.be/KdBE0M8P04I
• Router Basics, Tips and Techniques with Tom McLaughlin: https://youtu.be/EHUUSUwrJD8
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LIVE EVENTS are filmed in the shop of Tom McLaughlin, host of TV’s Classic Woodworking and Shop Night Live. Tom loves to pass on the craft of woodworking by creating projects to present in live video form backed by his over 30-years of experience making fine custom furniture.
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Thank you, very useful.
Hey,great event.I wanna be like you when I grow up!!😀
Joining the neighborwood sounds like you have to channel your Elmer Fudd to make it happen.
Thanks for the router tips! “You’re a funny guy, Tommy.”
I always like SNL. But missed this past Thursday night. Just finished it and thoroughly enjoyed. This ones gets the gears grinding in my head. One of the best SNL.
Many, many thanks for another super session. I have been a hobbyist cabinet maker for over half a century, and you just expanded my kit of tools exponentially. I am in the agonizing process of designing and building a pedestal table for a small, but special, work of art, and you have just given me the spark of inspiration for the design. Love what you do for all of us humble woodworkers.
Really enjoyed watching(weekend woodworker,) and learned A LOT….cheers…rr Normandy, Fra.
Thanks for the video. I truly hate a router, however, I constantly come right back to it.
Love that base!
Great ideas.
Hi Tom, missed you live, I tuned in late, just got done watching. The router jigs you came up with are amazing, great ideas, I learned a lot on router techniques, thank you. Looking forward to the two different ways you create the Queen Ann legs.
See you and Kris this coming Tuesday for the Queen Ann foot stool course. Have a wonderful 4th of July, Independence Day.