Cabinetmakers use shop-made or commercial drilling jigs to speed the mounting of Euro hinges on their doors. What sets the EZ-Mount apart from basic [...]
Two new jigs from Trend make routing ellipses as easy as routing circles. Actually, these jigs rout circles, too. The Mini Ellipse Jig (shown above) is designed [...]
The new Dremel Scroll Station model 1830 combines the most sought after scrolling features into one affordable tool. Up-front user controls for variable speed, [...]
If there's one thing that can really slow you down when bandsawing, it's stopping the blade to fish out little cutoffs that get stuck in the table insert. [...]
Sometimes setting up a big electric router to do a small job is like swatting flies with a backhoe. What you may prefer, of course, is a simple hand tool that [...]
The massive “X-Y” table on Jet's new JFM-5 floor model mortiser ($999) makes mortising a breeze. One handwheel moves the table laterally; another [...]
Philadelphia’s Powel House in 1933 The Powel House is still standing at 244 S. 3rd Street During the Great Depression, the U.S. Government instituted a program through the WPA that paid [...]
Last Sunday, in The New York Times Magazine cover story, Michael Sokolove reported that in the world of sports, “Girls are more likely suffer chronic knee pain as well as shinsplints and [...]
Last Thursday we held our first reader event of the year here at our offices and shop. This is one of the best parts of working here. We invite readers to come in for a free meal and an [...]
DeWalt's new DC608 isn't the first cordless brad nailer, but it is one of the best. The big advantage of going cordless, of course, is that you don't [...]
Dremel's Driver (a cordless screwdriver) and Stylus (a cordless rotary tool) are now available together in the Dremel Duo Two-Tool Kit. The set also includes [...]
