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Rabbeting Bit Accessory By Brad Holden I got in a pickle the other day when I needed to rout a curved rabbet that was 9/32" wide. None of the bearings with my rabbet bit set would work. [...]

Rev-A-Shelf Top-Mount Pull-Out Waste Containers with Soft Close By Brad Holden Hardware from Rev-A-Shelf for hiding a trash can behind a cabinet door now has a soft-close feature. You just give [...]

Infinity Cutting Tools Professional Coping Sled By Brad Holden A good coping sled is a must for cope and stick routing. A great coping sled is icing on the cake, and that’s what Infinity [...]

Irwin Marples Woodworking Series Circular Saw Blades By Brad Holden You'll be seeing a whole bunch of new 10" thin-kerf saw blades in stores pretty soon: the blue Marples line, from [...]

  Veritas Bench Chisels By Brad Holden A bench chisel is probably the only type of chisel most woodworkers require. It’s used to pare dovetails, chop mortises and for every job in [...]

Ultimate Face Vise By Brad Holden A good vise is essential to a good workbench. It’s your extra pair of hands, hands you rely on every day. The trend in vises seems to be to cut corners in [...]

Multipurpose Clamp Aids By Brad Holden The "universal clamping block" really lives up to its name. It’s just a flat aluminum bar with a loop on one end, yet it can be used to [...]

Carter MagFence II By Brad Holden If you've been thinking about replacing your bandsaw’s stock fence, it doesn’t get any easier than switching to the Carter MagFence II. [...]

Kreg Precision Router Table Setup Bars By Brad Holden Accurate tool setup is half the battle of doing good work. Kreg’s Precision Router Table Setup Bars make the battle a little easier. [...]

Precision Sliding T-Bevel By Brad Holden How accurate can you be if you use a protractor to read the angle of a sliding T-bevel? A degree or two? How about +/-0.3°—that’s how [...]

Next month, the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh, N.C., will open a shop of later 20th-century woodworking iconography titled: “Blood on the Adze: The Hegemony of Post-radicalist [...]

Don’t miss Woodworking in America – Don’t miss Chuck Bender     Also, check out Chuck Bender’s great DVDs: “Dovetail Mastery” “Down and Dirty [...]