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What is a Router?
Wood Router Safety
How to Remove a Router Bit
How to Install a Router Bit
Types of Router Bits
Flush Trim Routing
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How to Duplicate a Shape with a Router
How to Use a Router Table
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How to Make a Circle with a Router
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Wood Router Maintenance
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Summary: Proper use of a wood router tool will promote safety. Learn how to do woodworking with routers in this home maintenance video.
Kevin Mouton has spent the last four years making custom, high end, solid wood and veneer furniture for local and national clients out of a shop in Austin, Texas. He attended ACC,...read more
"Hi my name's Kevin and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to be talking to you about router safety. A router is a very useful tool that can also be a very dangerous one if used improperly, so there's a couple things you can do to make sure that doesn't happen. For starters, it's always a good idea to wear hearing protection 'cause a router is often loud and you're operating it really close to your ear. So it's very important to wear hearing protection and as well as respiratory protection, but absolutely essential is eye protection because unlike a sander that for the most part is just creating dust, a router has got blades. So in addition to dust, its creating wood chips that are being thrown in all directions so its just absolutely essential that your eyes are protected and that you're not getting anything in your eyes during the operation. When you're actually using the router, you want to have both hands tightly on the router. You don't ever want this guy to get away from you because unlike the sander, which has a trigger than you can just let go off, this has an on/off switch that is up here and when your hands are down here, when something goes wrong, its a lot harder to just let go of the trigger. So you always want to make sure you have a firm grip on the router at all times. When you're using the router, you always want to go from left to right with your cut so that you're going into the cut against the way that the blade is spinning. It is spinning like this so if you were to come this way, the router is just going to want to take off really fast and its hard to get away from you. That's called climb cutting, some people use it, I don't recommend it because its really easy for the router to get out of control and potentially get hurt. So always, good firm grip from left to right. Always, left to right into the cut."
eHow Article: Wood Router Safety
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