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From August 2006 Popular Woodworking At first blush I looked at this tool and said, “Twenty-five bucks for this?” Then I took a closer look and realized how many things...

From August 2006 Popular Woodworking Dado Wiz Zeros in on Perfect Fit for Dados or Grooves Our staff has an ongoing discussion about  the best way to make dados. Whether...

From October 2006 Popular Woodworking Bosch Pocket Driver Offers Pint-sized Power I don’t care how many cordless drills you own, if you like tools, you’re going to need one more....

From October 2006 Popular Woodworking A Bigger Birdcage Awl Birdcage awls are outstanding and accurate tools for installing hardware. In essence, they are a boring tool: Place the tip where...

From October 2006 Popular Woodworking Hitachi Revamps an Old Friend with Mixed Results For the past 17 years, the M12V plunge router from Hitachi has been a staple in many...

From November 2006 Popular Woodworking Adding a digital readout to a plunge router is more useful than adding a laser, but this digital feature alone might not be reason enough...

From November 2006 Popular Woodworking Build a Wooden Handplane , in a Day Making your own woodworking tools can be rewarding , but it can also be time-consuming and thus...

From November 2006 Popular Woodworking Pint-sized Accuracy The combination square is standard equipment for many woodworkers, but it is overkill for most jobs. Most woodworkers need a well-marked [...]

From November 2006 Popular Woodworking A Small Digital Fractional-readout Caliper , Finally! Accurately measuring (both wood and machinery) in the shop is important for every woodworker, and most [...]

From December 2006 Popular Woodworking Planemakers have long used floats to shape and true the critical surfaces of wooden handplanes. But cabinetmakers also used floats, and after several months of...

From December 2006 Popular Woodworking As a devoted band saw user, I’ve always resisted the bowsaw, which was used by early American and English woodworkers to cut curves. My problem...

From December 2006 Popular Woodworking Better Featherboards for Many Tools Traditionally, a shop-made featherboard is used to hold a small or narrow workpiece firmly against a fence or machine [...]