Discover dozens of ways that the router can be used to increase your productivity -- and creativity -- in the shop. In this video, you'll learn basic router joinery and how to rout the subtle shapes necessary to create a handsome hand mirror.

You will learn about:

- Making spline edge joints in boards with the router
- Routing mortises and tenons that fit
- Routing sliding dovetail mortises and tenons
- A variety of jigs for the router
- Cutting to a pattern, tapers, roundovers, under-cuts, decorative covers and routed cavities

Bernie Maas teaches woodworking to art students at Edinboro University in Pennsylvania. Michael Fortune is a furniture designer/maker in Toronto.