Originally Posted by
seedsbelize
If, like many of us here, you tend toward thriftiness, you can buy a short subscription to Fine Woodworking's online edition and then download like mad. I also subscribe to Woodworker's Journal digital. I believe it is free.
I like my vintage, 1980 Craftsman router very much. When buying a router, heavier weight is generally a better quality router.
Good advice, SeedsB. I subscribed to the paper version of Fine Woodworking for many years and it is a very good publication. I still have stacks and stacks of them and the problem becomes, what on earth to do with them? This was before the online archives stuff was available. Great magazine though. I even have a copy of issue
#1 .
I agree also on the router. heavier is good. As is more power. Plenty of outfits make good routers these days. Porter-Cable. Hitachi. Makita, etc.
I have my 3 HP Elu mounted under a router table, which is very handy for doing moldings and profiles, etc.
By the way, SeedsB…I am interested in woods. Do you happen to know what species of cedar you're using? Spanish? Of course, I just learned there are many, many species of it down that way.