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Drilling with a Plunge Router

Sometimes, all it takes to expand the capabilities of a tool is to think of it in a different way. That might sound a bit strange, but bear with me. My fixed-based router has been a key tool in my shop for years. But when I got a plunge base, I found even more uses for it.

Then one day, it occurred to me that the action of a plunge router is pretty similar to how a

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