Wood routers are categorized by the way the base is attached to the motor: Plunge routers: The motor is attached to a spring-loaded base, so you can plunge the bit into the middle of a piece of work. They are the safest type or wood router.

Fixed-base routers: Lock in the depth of cut by raising or lowering the motor on the base. They're often considered the easiest for beginners to learn to use, especially when mounted in a router table.

Trim routers: Very light and small fixed-base routers, using bits with quarter-inch shanks, powered by 1-hp or smaller motors. They are also called laminate trimmers or palm routers.

Combo router: Kits come with one mid-sized motor plus both a fixed base and a plunge base. They're a cost-effective and convenient way to get two tools in one.

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Pushsticks are a safety jig, used to push a piece of wood through a blade, usually on the tablesaw, but also for the router table. Everyone has their own variation of a pushstick design but mainly most pushsticks will look pretty much the same, at the least the safe ones do. There are basically two main design features on a pushstick that need to be adhered to in order for it to work properly and to be safe at the same time. They need to be able to push the workpiece properly while keeping your hands away from the blade (or router bit), and they need to have both forward and downward pressure to push the workpiece into the blade while avoiding the workpiece from being kicked up by the force of the blade. It's easy to make pushsticks, usually a piece of scrap wood is cut on the bandsaw, or  [ ... ]