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Bundle: The Ultimate Router Skills 5-Class Set with 3 Tools (DVD + Streaming Video)

Router skills are among the most fundamental and important in maximizing your time and success in your wood shop. With this set, you’ll get in-depth instruction and new ideas related to router-based skills. Including detailed training with hand-held routers, router table essentials, and router table joinery, you’ll come away from this multi-class program with new ability to create more projects with more creativity and efficiency.

These classes will provide you with invaluable training and will help you get more out of your router tools, your time, and your skills!

To maximize your convenience and long-term flexibility, you’ll own these classes in TWO forms – on DVD and via streaming video online. With this 2-media access, you can enjoy or share the instruction no matter where you’re at!

Each of the five classes you’ll receive includes bonus printable PDF resources that will supplement and expand upon the video instruction you’ll see.

This class bundle includes over 8 hours of video instruction with the titles and topics below. In addition, you’ll get a digital height gauge, a set of brass set-up gauges, and a bottle of router bit lubricant – all are fantastic items for using with your router tools. These three items alone have a value of $52 when sold separately.

See this video for a preview of this great Class set:



Hand-Held Router Technqiues

Hand-held routers are incredibly versatile. Used properly, they can add detail to an edge, create rock solid joints, add decorative details, and more.

There are many keys to successful and safe router use. This video class, with your instructor George Vondriska, provides you with excellent router know-how, including the following specific elements:

  • Types of routers and bits
  • Buying advice and maintenance
  • Mastering cutting techniques
  • Advanced router skills and know-how
  • Instructor: George Vondriska
    Video run-time: 95 minutes

    PLUS, you’ll get the following BONUS resources and helpful information to supplement your class content:

  • Class Guide PDF, as reference for key elements of the class instruction
  • Speed Chart PDF, to see the appropriate RPM speed to run your router bits
  • Class Resources PDF, for a list of tools, suppliers, and other helpful information
  • VIDEO: Meet your instructor
  • VIDEO: Listen to George talk about turning your router into the versatile tool it can be
  • Router Table Essentials

    A router table adds a LOT to the shop. With amazingly diverse router bit profiles, there are many different things you can do on a router table, from edge profiling to joinery.

    With George Vondriska as your instructor, this video class will give you many important tips and fundamentals – helping you to get the most out of your router table. You’ll learn all about the following:

  • Best set-up for your router table
  • Buying advice
  • Safety Tips
  • Maintenance
  • Making clean cuts
  • Techniques for various cuts
  • Instructor: George Vondriska
    Video run-time: 100 minutes

    PLUS, you’ll get the following BONUS resources and helpful information to supplement your class content:

  • Class Guide PDF, as reference for key elements of the class instruction
  • Speed Chart PDF, to see the appropriate RPM speed to run your router bits
  • Class Resources PDF, for a list of tools, suppliers, and other helpful information
  • VIDEO: Meet your instructor
  • VIDEO: Listen to George talk about the versatility and value of having good router table skills
  • Router Table Joinery

    It’s hard to beat the across-the-board versatility of joinery that can be done on a router table. With this video Class, your arsenal of woodworking joints will grow. Your instructor, master woodworker George Vondriska, will teach you how to use the router table to:

  • Joint edges
  • Cut tongue and groove joints
  • Make cope and stile joints for frame and panel doors
  • Create mortise and tenon joints
  • Craft rock solid boxes with a drawer lock joint
  • Finesse the elusive lock miter joint
  • Instructor: George Vondriska
    Video run-time: Over 2 hours

    PLUS, you’ll get the following BONUS resources and helpful information to supplement your class content:

  • Class Guide PDF, as reference for key elements of the class instruction
  • Class Resources PDF, for a list of tools, suppliers, and other helpful information
  • VIDEO: Meet your instructor
  • VIDEO: Hear George talk more about how his experience, and mistakes, can help you gain new skills on your router table
  • 8 Jigs For Hand-Held Routers

    Are you getting the most out of your router? There’s so much that a router can do, we want to help you optimize what these machines are capable of. The eight jigs we show you in this class will help you take your router skills to a new level.

    For each jig, your instructor George Vondriska will lead you step-by-step through the process of using and building the jig: setting it up, choosing the correct router bit, positioning the jig on your work, and more.

    George will teach you about the following eight jigs:

  • Edge Clean-up
  • Adjustable Dado Jig
  • Two-Piece Dado Jig
  • Adjustable Shelf Holes
  • Locating Dadoes on Center
  • Hold Down Pattern
  • Board Flattene
  • Instructor: George Vondriska
    Video run-time: Nearly 90 minutes

    PLUS, you’ll get the following BONUS resources and helpful information to supplement your class content:

  • Class Guide PDF, as reference for key elements of the class instruction
  • Class Resources PDF, for a list of tools, suppliers, and other helpful information
  • VIDEO: Meet your instructor
  • VIDEO: Hear George talk about the value of using Router jigs
  • Advanced Hand Held Router Techniques

    Routers are such great tools and can do so much for you and your woodworking. We’re ready to take you and your router to the next level with some advanced techniques. The techniques you learn in this video class will help you with many of your woodworking projects. Here’s what we’ll cover:

  • Making and cutting in bowties
  • Creating a liquid inlay using colored epoxy resin
  • Using a router as a biscuit joiner
  • Making bowls and trays with a router and template
  • Routing specialized slots for fastening solid wood tops and allowing expansion
  • Using templates and a specialized guide bushing to create inlays
  • When to replace your router collets
  • Instructor: George Vondriska
    Video run-time: Over 90 minutes

    PLUS, you’ll get the following BONUS resources and helpful information to supplement your class content:

  • Class Guide PDF, as reference for key elements of the class instruction
  • Class Resources PDF, for a list of tools, suppliers, and other helpful information
  • VIDEO: Meet your instructor
  • VIDEO: Hear George talk about how router skills can add a unique and fun element to your projects
  • Whiteside 2 1/2″ Brass Set Up Gauges

    Quickly and easily make accurate set-ups with this very helpful tool!

    5 piece set comes with 1/8”, 3/16”, 1/4″, 3/8” and 1/2” stackable squares which allows for a wider range of sizes. A great way to make exact depth movements on plunge routers. On table routers, they’re perfect for setting distances from the fence to the cutter, or for checking the bit height above the table. Recommended by George.

    Wixey Mini Height Gauge

    The Wixey Digital Height Gauge with Fractions is a highly accurate measuring device developed specifically for woodworking. They include the same advanced Wixey Technology features found in all our other Digital Readout products.

    It can be used to set saw blade and router bit height as well as set the distance from a router fence to the bit.

    Router Bit Lubricant Spray (2 oz)

    Remove heat and reduce Router Bit cutting friction for fewer burn marks and smooth routing.

    This unique fluoropolymer liquid allows router bits to cut all kinds of materials in a cleaner and cooler way, and with less friction. This specialty cooling lubricant penetrates and bonds to the microstructure of the tooling surface.

    Router Bit Lubricant Spray prevents bit and bearing fouling caused by heat and contamination while it prolongs the life of high speed steel, carbide and diamond tooling.