Routers

Routers are tools that are used to rout out or hollow out an area in a piece of wood. Think about the elaborate stair railings found in Victorian homes, and you get a good idea of why a wood router would be necessary. Obviously, the first ones were not electric or motor powered. In fact, they worked a lot like the early sewing machines, because the routing part was on a spindle that had a foot pump. You would pump the spindle into motion, and then use that to hollow out the piece of wood that would ultimately become a stair railing or whatever else you were making. Obviously, though, people would not tolerate using the same technology that was used over a century before, and now routers look a bit different than they did before. There are electric ones now as well as motorized ones, so you don’t have to pump the spindle in order to make it move.

Actually, traditional wood routers are still widely used, but electric ones are used for finer work or moulding. An electric one can cut grooves and edge molding, and in some cases, can cut joints. There are two basic types of modern routers—the plunge base and the fixed base. With the cut-base, the cut depth is set before the tool is turned on. There are many different types of routers and many different nuances and details because they do so much different type of work. But if you are serious about woodworking, it’s important to have.

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