Tricks of the Trade
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Cove Cutting with a Table Saw
Sandor Nagyszalanczy explains and demonstrates how to use your table saw to make cove cuts on a table saw without having to use a shaper or router.
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How to Rout Aluminum
You may think of your router as a tool only for woodworking, but Chris Marshall explains how you can use it for metal pieces as well. He shows the jig he used to set up the cut and explains the bit and router setup to make the cuts.
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Clean Wipe Solution for Hardware Marking
This reader needed a simple way to mark up his finished wood for hardware installation. The answer? Simple whiteboard markers.
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Another Way to Store Individual Router Bits
This reader takes a bit of yesterday’s technology and some scrap wood, and recycles it into a bit storage case.
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How to Apply Wood Veneer
Learn how to attach wood veneer to a plywood substrate. Veneer is a thin piece of solid wood which is attached to the substrate with wood glue.
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Shop-made Hook Rules with Magnetic Appeal
Hook rules can be really useful for making shop measurements, and you can add one to any steel rule using parts you already have in your shop.
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Compact Project Storage
Have many projects in mind but not enough places to put them all? This reader has a tip that will help you keep everything you’ve ever made on display forever.
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Shop-made Sandpaper
Do you really want to save money in your shop? This reader has the ultimate penny saving solution: make your own sandpaper!
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Roggler Table Saw Picket Fence
Are you tired of critters getting into your shop and messing up your cuts? Are your neighbors peeking in and offering unwanted suggestions? Keep those and other unwanted visitors out of your shop and away from your projects and keep your saw cuts true.
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VIDEO: Why Use a Table Saw Crosscut Sled
Every table saw comes with a miter gauge, and they’re made for making crosscuts and angled cuts. So why do you need a crosscut sled?
