For my workbench project I needed to cut sheet goods on the length, and I wanted the cuts to be straight since I’m going to be looking at ‘em for awhile.  I found Swanson’s CG100 cutting guide at Lowe’s for $20 and figured it was worth a shot. When I got it home I found that...

Would you rather be sharpening your tools or using them?  Gladstone bets you’d prefer using their marking knife rather than sharpening it, so they gave it a ceramic blade that never needs to be sharpened. Gladstone makes their marking knives in the USA using a material called Ceremax 80 ̵...

Once you see Festool’s new parallel guide system, you may start to question whether you really need your table saw.  The system works in conjunction with their guide rail to give you consistent rip cuts. The guide has a pair of stops that hold the edge of the material parallel to the rip guid...

Adjustable and accurate don’t have to be mutually exclusive when you talk about squares.  This adjustable-angle T-square from Bridge City Tool Works gives you both an accurate 90° angle and an adjustable angle in one beautiful and expensive package. Use the AS-24 just like any other fixed-an...

The edge of regular sanding discs can dig into your prized work, but New Wave sanding discs have wavy edges that curl over the side of the sanding pad, so the edge doesn’t come in contact with the workpiece. The high-quality sanding discs are constructed from flexible C-weight paper with a loo...

The selection of engineered building materials available to contractors and the general public gets bigger and better every year — there’s melamine, plywood, Baltic birch plywood, chipboard, MDO, MDF, particle board, phenolic, and more.  One of the relative newcomers, phenolic-faced ply...

Unless you like flirting with danger, you probably don’t want to rip thin strips against your table saw fence. The correct way is to cut the strips on the opposite side of the blade, leaving the meat of the wood between the fence and the blade, but doing it this way you have to recalculate the...

The Kreg Jig Master System is the “fully loadedâ€� version of the Kreg Joinery System, which helps you screw together butt joints. You drill and countersink your screw holes using the jig — then hold the pieces together with the clamping system as you join them with the screws. The Kreg Jig ...

Can someone help me fix my beautiful old wooden doors? My condo has six very nice old oak interior doors, which I believe are original to the building (built sometime in the 1890s). At some time in the past (I assume in the mid-century, when the area was not so nice, and building was a flophouse), i...

Eco Factor: Hot tubs made from natural wood. In this era of high-end hot tubs, where Jacuzzi rules the marketplace, SeaOtter WoodWorks has something more eco-friendly, which can cater to the needs of all eco-minded home owners. The company has launched hot tubs made from natural wood. Developed espe...