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Add comfort and cleanliness to concrete, one square at a time.

With its relatively short tongue that fits into a shallow groove, the tongue-and-groove joint is woodworking’s diminutive cousin to the mortise-and-tenon. Thankfully, it’s much easier to make, in large part due to modern routers and router bits. 

The technique of resawing refers to slicing wood across its widest dimension. It’s basically a form of  slabbing done to make thin stock from thick stock. It’s also used to create book-matched figure, where resawn pieces are edge-joined to create a mirrored pattern for use as a door panel, box lid, or tray  bottom,

I was building rustic clocks for Christmas presents out of logs that were sawn in half but still about 4" thick. While routing mortises for the battery-powered clock movements I ran into a problem.

Metalworkers don’t usually have the luxury of a fluff factor. Their work can’t often be sanded or trimmed to fit, so their layouts must be precise. The Precision Triangle Set from Pinnacle brings that kind of accuracy to the woodshop in the form of two extremely precise triangular squares.

This article shows how to avoid many table saw mishaps.

Mobility is an essential in small shops, where several tools in succession must be used in the same space.

Expand your tool arsenal with handsaws that belong to a centuries-old tradition of craftsmanship

One of the few machines around today that can still use a business card tune-up (using the business card to measure tolerances in at least one place) is the wood cutting bandsaw.