Talk:Router (woodworking)

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was move. JPG-GR (talk) 05:57, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Wood router → Router (woodworking) — This implement is most commonly called a "router", as can be verified by visiting any power tools manufacturer and looking at their sales terminology for this type of tool. The term "wood router" is not well supported by a Google test, returning only 469 results for the phrase. — —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 11:37, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

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• Support rename to Router (woodworking) Also bear in mind though that we should support both "router plane"s (a hand tool) and "router"s the power tool. Andy Dingley (talk) 17:08, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

• Support, and we probably also need a page at router (disambiguation) to disambig this usage, the hardware usage and the software usage. And there may well be others in more specialised areas. Andrewa (talk) 17:11, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

• Support SilentC (talk) 22:29, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

• Support No one calls it a wood router. 199.125.109.99 (talk) 00:48, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
• Support Yeah my friend and i call it a wood router.SilentC (talk) 22:29, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Discussion

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yeah my friend and i call it a wood router —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.188.213.140 (talk) 07:34, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Verb

According to http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/router#Verb the verb is to router, not to route (third-person singular simple present routers, present participle routering, simple past and past participle routered) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.255.248.188 (talk) 02:30, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Needed?

"Companies that manufacture custom router bits can be found on the Internet."

Really? Is this actually needed. It's pretty mush stating the obvious isn't it? Everything on the planet can be found "on the Internet" nowadays. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.74.206.41 (talk) 00:06, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

The intent behind the sentence's existence wasn't really the means of ordering (online versus offline) but rather just to state that ordering is possible (in other words, you can get custom profiles, not just off-the-shelf profiles). I revised the phrasing to better address your point. — ¾-10 23:40, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Is it even true? I can get bits made for a spindle moulder or shaper very easily. For a router though, I'm hard-pressed to think of any supplier at all. I'm sure they're out there (there are 7 billion people out there - someone is doing it, whatever it is) but it's very far from common (as it is common for spindle moulders). It's way out of proportion to present custom ground bits as if they're the usual way of using router tooling. Andy Dingley (talk) 23:47, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

It's certainly true; here's an example. I don't agree that it is presented "as if they're the usual way of using router tooling". It's one blurb at the bottom of the section. If you see a way to deemphasize it more explicitly, that's fine. — ¾-10 00:08, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Not neutral

Stating that eye protection "should" be worn is not a value neutral statement and goes against the very idea of an encyclopedia, i.e. to be objective. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.224.88.51 (talk) 06:36, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

History

Is there a word of truth in any of that?

Also routers (as fixed machines) appeared in the late Victorian period and the appearance of their work is an obvious dating feature in furniture of the period. Andy Dingley (talk) 08:32, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

Router plane

A separate article exists for the router plane, but this article has the power router and the router plane sort of jumbled up together. But I'm not sure how best to delineate and signpost readers to that (currently pretty short) article. Any ideas? LittleDwangs (talk) 10:40, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

I cleaned up the opening to link the router plane article and minimize the repetitive digressions about hand tools. Hope that helps. JMCorey (talk) 04:36, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Removing promotional edits by daddycarpenter

User Daddycarpenter made several edits to this mage, all uncited and appear promotional. Only edits on account are for this article. References “famous” brands that have almost no google results outside of ali and amazon, seems like mass produced chinese crap. Also statement that there are 16 thousand different types of attachments is uncited, seems completely fabricated. Removing all edits as all evidence suggests WP:COI John wiki: If you have a problem, don't mess with my puppy... 23:19, 5 June 2021 (UTC)