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3 Home Improvement Trim Details
Emotions drive people more than anything else, and this is why home improvement is so perennially popular. We all want to our houses to make us feel good, and the three, router-based ideas you’ll...
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Freud Staircase Hand-Rail Router Bits
Few people realize how simple it is to make spectacular shop-milled, hardwood staircase hand railings in traditional profiles using ordinary workshop skills and a router. All it takes is the right...
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Lacerating Laminate Flooring Requires Special Blades
Learning How To Cut Laminate Like Me If you’re planning to install a laminate floor, there are two things you need to understand about cutting this material. First is that the precision and smoothness...
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Freud DM800E Heavy Duty Mixer
Euro-Style Mixer Better than a Drill for Drywall Mud, Thinset, Mortar and Epoxy Coatings I once traveled to the small town of Ripoll in northern Spain to see something I didn’t think existed in Europe...
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Spectacular Do-It-Yourself Railings
Few woodworkers realize how simple it is to make spectacular shop-milled railings in traditional profiles using ordinary workshop skills and a router. You don’t even need a shaper. If you’ve got a need...
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Customizing Raised Panel Cabinet Doors
In 1987, I began work in a kitchen cabinet shop where we made our own traditional, raised panel, solid wood doors by the dozen using mortise and tenon joints in the corners. The boss had built his own...
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4 Tool Tips to Get the Most Out of Today’s Best Saw Blade Technology
While it’s true that the best saws in the world are only as good as the blades they spin, that’s just part of success. The other part depends on your skills managing your tools and using them. Four Key...
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Freud Premier Adjustable Rail and Stile (PARS) Router Bit Sets
If you like the idea of making traditional mortise and tenon doors in solid wood, but also want the efficiency of a router, these unique bits are worth looking at. Unlike traditional router bits for...
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A Better Way to Cut Steel
Cutting all kinds of steel and ferrous metal is easier and more accurate than ever, and these productivity gains come from a very unlikely source: carbide-tooth saw blades. These blades look like...
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Build Your Own Wide Crown Router Table Fence
Wide crown moulding router bits allow you to mill your own crown profiles up to 5 1/2” wide from ordinary, 3/4”-thick lumber using any good router table. But for accurate, safe results, you also need...
View ArticleHOLE SAW VS. STEEL: Watch What This Tool Does to 3/4″-Thick Tractor Frame
UPDATED 26Oct2018: Sometimes a tool surprises you. That’s the case with a hole saw I used for a job that was well beyond what this tool was designed for. It had to do with one of my old tractors....
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How to Make Your Own Stair Railing With a Router
Video Feature Few home woodworkers realize how simple it is to make spectacular shop-milled railings in traditional profiles using ordinary workshop skills and a router. You don’t even need a shaper....
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