The New Router Handbook

Spielman adds another solid woodworking text to his long list of publications, and it's as well done as all the others. (In fact, if you want to accumulate a library of woodworking texts, just buying Spielman's catalog is not a bad idea.) Oh, most woodworkers may not use the bulk of what's here, but still, this will serve as the primer on a very useful tool, so those about to get a router ought to at least thumb through it, if only to learn that a router can be used for more than just making fancy edges. More than a thousand illustrations make this an easily understood tome, too. Jon Kartman