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Tools News - Portable Carpentry Workshop
by American Woodworker Editors Tuesday, February 16, 2010
The Portable Carpentry Workshop, popularly known as PCW, organizes all the tools of the carpenter’s trade into one rolling, easily accessible cabinet. From the table saw, miter saw to router, all tools are centralized, contained within one transportable...
Tool News - General International Flexible Expandable Roller Stand
by American Woodworker Editors Tuesday, November 3, 2009
General International's new model 50-166 adjustable height expandable roller system is ideal for support of large, awkward or cumbersome stock and for in-feed or out-feed assist applications. It's ideal for use in wood shop applications with sheet...
Tool News - Rockler SpeedCope
by American Woodworker Editors Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Rockler just introduced the SpeedCope, a new heavy-duty jig that helps make cope cuts for tight fitting overlapped joints in crown and base molding. Coped joints have long been the inside corner joint of choice among finish carpenters. To make them, a...
Tool News - Milwaukee AC/DC Wall and Vehicle Chargers
by American Woodworker Editors Friday, September 4, 2009
Milwaukee recently introduced the new M12 and M18 AC/DC Wall and Vehicle Chargers for their M12 line of lithium-ion batteries. Designed for the work day of the professional tradesman, the new chargers combine the functionality of a wall charger and vehicle...
Tool News - Craftsman Digital Miter Gauge
by American Woodworker Editors Thursday, January 1, 2009
If you’ve ever had to cut pieces with precise compound angles, you’ll really appreciate Craftsman’s new digital miter gauge. It’s accurate to within one-tenth of a degree. The gauge comes equipped with a clever magnetic device...
Instant Carving
by AW-Editor Monday, September 29, 2008
A friend of mine spent years trying to teach me to carve. Sorry, it just ain't in these hands. But CMT had me carving—sort of—in minutes. The company's new 3D Router Carver System turns a plunge router into a carving tool. You can...
Easy-To-Customize Mobile Base
by AW-Editor Thursday, September 18, 2008
Whether your shop is spacious or petite, you can't beat the convenience of having your equipment mobile. The new Universal Mobile Base Hardware, $60, will help you get rolling. Customizing the base for any tool is simple. It has a high load rating...
Miter Saw Dust Shroud
by AW-Editor Friday, September 12, 2008
Miter saws are a great convenience, but they spread sawdust like a sprinkler spreads water. The new Downdrafter shroud from Rousseau, $200, combined with a dust collector, acts like a parachute behind the saw and grabs almost every bit of dust. You may...
Electronic Age Hits Miter Saws
by AW-Editor Friday, September 12, 2008
Lasers have proven to be a wonderful way to add safety and accuracy to miter saws. Now Hitachi has taken ease-of-use to a new level by adding both a laser and a digital readout to its C12LCH 12-in. single compound miter saw, $369. The laser casts a line...
First-Rate Dowel Jig
by AW-Editor Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Locating and drilling dowel holes is usually so fussy it drives you nuts! A self-centering jig works fine on stock of equal thickness, like a face frame, but you may have a hard time setting it up to join parts of unequal thickness, like a thick table...
Versatile Throat Plate
by AW-Editor Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Zero-clearance throat plates are one of the best accessories you can put on your tablesaw. With a slot that tightly fits the blade, you get less tear-out and no trapped offcuts, with both standard blades and dado sets. Buying a whole stack of throat plates...
Rout Ellipses with Ease
by AW-Editor Thursday, May 15, 2008
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 for use with a light-duty plunge router. It allows routing ellipses from 9-in. by 7-in. to...
Multi-Function Router Base
by AW-Editor Sunday, May 11, 2008
The Router Buddy is a 7-in.-dia. base plate that's bored to fit most popular routers. It's equipped with an integral edge guide/circle-cutting jig and a center hole that's counterbored to accept Porter-Cable guide bushings. Changing from one...
Float Through Your Routing Tasks
by AW-Editor Sunday, May 11, 2008
If you've ever played a game of air hockey, you'll appreciate how a router might feel floating on a cushion of air. The Betterley Air-Glide Router Base mounts onto most routers in minutes. Even big 3-hp routers glide with ease. Surface scratches...
Economical Through Dovetail Jig
by AW-Editor Sunday, May 11, 2008
Forget worrying about limited dovetail jig capacity. The ChestMate dovetail jig allows cutting through dovetails anywhere on boards of any width. The process is pretty simple. The jig has an indexing pin that fits 1/8-in. kerfs sawn in a story stick that...

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