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Updated on April 3rd, 2020
UPDATED 3Apr2020: It’s funny what sticks with you from childhood One of my earliest woodworking memories is of my...Continue Reading
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Updated on March 21st, 2020
PUBLISHED 19Mar2020: A drill press is one of the most useful stationary power tools In this video I take you on a...Continue Reading
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Updated on March 14th, 2020
UPDATED 13Mar2020: Click below to watch a tour of what might just be the world's best ratcheting screwdriver It's...Continue Reading
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Updated on July 9th, 2020
UPDATED 27Feb2020 + video below: As a teenager in the 1970s, I originally understood that a jigsaw was a hand-held...Continue Reading
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Updated on February 22nd, 2020
UPDATED 22Feb2020 + video below: Interested in taking care of your own home as much as possible A cordless drill can...Continue Reading
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WOOD PLANER TUNE-UP: How to Keep That Smooth Wood Coming
Updated on February 8th, 2020
UPATED 7Feb2020 + video below: To be a successful woodworker, you also need to be something of a mechanic I was...Continue Reading
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Updated on January 11th, 2020
UPDATED 10Jan2020: If power tools were the kids you went to high school with, the Porter-Cable brand would be that...Continue Reading
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Updated on December 7th, 2019
Sometimes the journey of becoming a skilled woodworker takes you down paths that didn’t seem important at...Continue Reading
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Updated on October 10th, 2020
If I had to choose just one method to connect project parts for the rest of my woodworking career, the dowel joint...Continue Reading