Rob Johnstone
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Makita’s Newest Cordless Drill Drivers
MForce, Makita’s new series of battery powered drills, has been designed to deliver: the latest in advanced technology and efficiency starting with such advancements as the new two-piece D-31 motor.
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JessEm Combo a Triple Threat
As the folks who really kicked off the trend of “above the table” adjustment of routers, Ontario, Canada’s JessEm Tool Company is no stranger to innovation.
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Steel Yourself: It’s Carbide
Rob responds to reader’s feedback on his thoughts on carbide tipped blades and on a previous Today’s Woodworker who got work from his profile.
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Carbide Cutters: They’re Everywhere!
Rob hasn’t used a carbide tipped blade in a long time, but now he can’t avoid the things. He wonders what happened.
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How You DO Choose!
Rob is pleased to see the reaction to both his last Editorial and to the magazine in general at IWF 2002.
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How Do YOU Choose?
We get an awful lot of questions about what tools to buy, but Rob wants to know how readers make those decisions.
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FREE, FREE, FREE!
Rob is very excited to have been able to produce an extra issue of the Weekly in July 2002.
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America: Red, White and Blue
Rob enjoys the Fourth of July celebrations and talks about a promotion (since ended) that SKIL ran to help after the 9/11 attacks.
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Sweat and Sawdust
Rob ponders the hows and whys of woodworker’s slowest season: the summer.
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Skil Power Tools Throws a Party
The folks from Skil had brought a bunch of us editors to Heber Springs to show off their newest tool offerings at the locale of one of their largest manufacturing plants.
