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A neat trick magically suspends this dining room project. by Steve Shanesy As empty nesters, my wife and I recently said goodbye to the family homestead and downsized to a smaller house. Our [...]

Shop scraps and a few simple techniques will get you spinning along. by Steve Shanesy pages 48-51 Large turning projects can be daunting. A large bowl, for example, requires [...]

'Dadonator Jr.' is small in size but big on performance. By Steve Shanesy Page 14 Regardless of what you may think, size doesn’t matter – at least not when you’re talking dado [...]

By Steve Shanesy Page 14 Amana Tool has four new countersinks with various-sized drill bits and non-marring depth stops. Each countersink has twin carbide-tipped flutes, and these are the [...]

By Steve Shanesy Page 16 Spyder, a Kansas City, Mo.-based company, has introduced a jigsaw blade with teeth on the front and back edges. At first glance, these blades look odd at best and [...]

A neat trick magically suspends this dining room project. By Steve Shanesy Pages 42-45 As empty nesters, my wife and I recently said goodbye to the family homestead and downsized [...]

By Steve Shanesy Page 18 Four-jaw scroll chucks used in wood turning largely work the same. They have interchangeable jaws held by screws, and the jaws open or close using a geared key, a hex [...]

This full-featured, 5" tool is powered by an 18v lithium-ion battery. By Steve Shanesy Page 16 Makita has liberated the pigtail from a full-sized random-orbit sander with the [...]

Just about every feature of this 15″ band saw is impressive. By Steve Shanesy Page 12 Powermatic’s new 15″ band saw is quite a package: good looking, heavy-duty in every way and [...]

A low-tech solution for a family on the go. By Steve Shanesy Pages: 26-27 From the February 2012 issue #195 Buy the issue now. The kitchen is the crossroads for today’s busy family. And while we [...]

By Steve Shanesy Page 16 In the world of routers and routing accessories, it seems that small is big these days. The popularity of trim routers has been growing for some time; in fact, it’s now [...]

By Steve Shanesy Page 18 The biscuit or plate joiner category of the hand-held power tool world has been pretty sleepy over the past few years. But Makita has introduced a new model that, while [...]