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 New Videos From IWF  Delta's All-American Unisaw   See the Lee Valley Skew Rabbet in Action  Granite Finds More Uses at Steel City sponsored  Powermatic's New Family of Bandsaws sponsored  Jet Celebrates 50 Years sponsored  Grex Pushes the Limit With Headless Pinners sponsored  Titebond Goes Instant sponsored  Apollo Sprayers Provide A Flawless Finish sponsored  New Multimaster Attachments Expand Your Toolkit sponsored  Sand-Flee Finishing Sanders Are a One-stop Shop sponsored  Router Boss Makes Chips Fly sponsored New Tools From IWF 2008
September 23, 2008
 From the press room of the Georgia World Congress Center and our hotel's lobby, we bring you the best news about all the new tools featured at this year's International Woodworking Festival in Atlanta, Ga. - Drew DePenning Associate Editor for the Web Delta's All-American Unisaw
Sponsored Video: Granite Finds More Uses at Steel City
Fancy New Cutterheads for Suitcase Planers
Sponsored Video: Jet Celebrates 50 Years with Stunning Redesigns
See the Veritas Skew Rabbet Plane in Action
Sponsored Video: Powermatic's 18" Band Saw Built Like a Tank
Sawstop Unveils a Less Expensive Cabinet Saw
Sponsored Video: Titebond Glue Goes Instant
New Forstner Bits Defy the Laws of Physics
Sponsored Video: Grex Pushes The Limit with Headless Pinners
Festool Unveils its "Shop in a Box"
Sponsored Video: Sand-Flee Finishing Sanders Are a One-stop Shop
An Adjustable-height Band Saw (yes, you read that right)
Sponsored Video: Apollo Sprayers Provide a Flawless Finish
Getting in Touch With Our Inner Europe
Sponsored Video: New Multimaster Attachments Expand Your Toolkit
New Router Bits for Tambour Doors (No Canvas!)
Sponsored Video: Router Boss Makes Chips Fly
Buy an Ancient Bench in Modern Birch
Old-School Joinery with a New Tool
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With all the granite tops the Steel City booth, we started to wonder if we stumbled onto a kitchen counter exhibit. What wowed us the most was how innovative Steel City has become with the application of this stable, flat stone.
The best way to surface figured or difficult woods is using a jointer or planer with an expensive cutterhead that's equipped with “insert tooling.” 
Jet turns 50 this year, and to celebrate they've redesigned some of their best machines.
Veritas is just about ready to release two new skew rabbet planes, which cut rabbets both with and across the grain. These full-featured planes are fundamental tools in the shop of a hand-tool woodworker. We take a look at this new plane, which was unveiled at IWF, and take it for a test drive.
Take a tour of Powermatic's new ruggedly built 18" band saw. Its massive cast wheels, precise bearing guides and acres of cast iron and steel all add up to one impressive machine.
In a move that will surely tighten the competition in the table saw market, 
Titebond-manufacturer Franklin International has introduced its fastest-setting wood adhesive ever, new Titebond Instant Bond.
It’s hard to imagine that someone today could come up with a better Forstner bit – they were first patented in 
The new P650L can drive even longer fasteners up to 2", allowing woodworkers to fasten even crown moulding – all without marring the work. 
For those of us covering the happenings at IWF, Festool scheduled appointments that were held outside the booth in a “secret” room. I think the team at Festool had a great idea. 
Take a tour of RJR Studios' revolutionary Sand-Flee drum sander. Its velcro drum allows you to use multiple grits at the same time, and the mop attachment provides endless applications. 
Get a close-up look at the expert HVLP Apollo Sprayer. This gun will let you attach almost any cup system, use either an air compressor or a turbine, and with its adjustable fan system you can paint almost anything. 
Everywhere you look it seems that European-style tools and accessories are creeping into the American tool shows. New guards, new styles of tools, even a new focus on safety and dust collection are all real trends. 
Fein has released several new attachments for the already versatile Multimaster.
We spent time this afternoon at IWF with Lonnie Bird, who after nearly 30 years as a woodworker and many years as a woodworking educator and teacher, he has turned to tool design as his latest challenge. He shows us a couple new router bits from Amana Tools. 
The Craftsman Gallery unveils its joinery machine – the Router Boss – and the tight joints it made certainly left an impression. 
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