Using a router table or a handheld router, woodworkers can make cutouts, sharp edges, rounded edges, joints, decorative cuts, rabbets, and dadoes, and they can even make duplicates from a pattern.

I designed this DIY router table to be solid, stable, easy to build and easy to use. The joinery is simplicity itself. Just butt joints and screws no miters, no fuss. But don’t get me wrong, ...