Projects

        Put together a 12-in. planer and a 12-in. jointer and what have you got? A two-in-one combination machine that's perfect for a small shop. European [...]

        Jasco's new Green Strip is completely free of two hazardous chemicals commonly found in paint strippers: methylene chloride (a suspected carcinogen) and [...]

    Students often ask me if they should buy a jointer or planer first.  Here’s an opportunity to get both in one tool.  Grizzly’s new G0633 12-in. Jointer/Planer [...]

          The wrong time to discover glue spots is when you're staining. But dried glue is so hard to see on unfinished wood, it's easy to miss until its too [...]

      The ProMiter-100 is a well engineered, precision miter gauge designed for woodworkers by a woodworker, Mario Salazar, owner of Salazar Solutions.  With the [...]

      The K Body Extender is the latest accessory designed for the original parallel jaw clamp. It's one of those great ideas that leave you wondering, “Why [...]

      Templates for making louvered doors are unique accessories for the Leigh FMT Jig. They're simple to set up and easy to use. It's hard to imagine a more [...]

      The new Veritas Surface Clamp ($59.50) provides a way to secure a workpiece almost anywhere that you can drill a 3/4-in.-dia. hole. It even works on vertical surfaces. [...]

      CMT's new Dado Pro ($149) is a dado head that stacks up pretty well. It does an excellent job in solid woods and works reasonably well in plywood. To produce [...]

      You can spend plenty of dough on an HVLP (high volume low pressure) spray system, so I was surprised to see the price on the Earlex HVLP 3000.  At $120, it looked [...]

    I used to have a desk in my shop for reviewing cutlists and drawing plans. I really liked having that permanent spot for my calculator, pens, pencils and paper, but its big [...]

      Assembling projects perfectly square can be a challenge.  The more parts you have, the more complicated it gets.  Having a set of 3D Squares, $50 for four, is [...]