Bosch has released a new battery system for their line of cordless tools. These new batteries have a lifetime that is 50% longer than traditional batteries and includes chargers that charge in just 30 minutes. The secret to the two packs is a combination of new heat rods inside the batteries ...
Dan Shapiro
CEO of Glowforge, creator of Robot Turtles, proud dad
It seems that sticking a router under a hole in a table and using it from the top should be a simple bit of engineering, but until recently it eluded most router manufactures. Your two options were to spend a few hundred dollars on a router lift or to bolt your fixed base under the table and ...
Back in 'the day', if you wanted a basic overview of a subject like woodworking, you might find yourself looking for a book titled something like this. "Introduction to Woodworking" "Get Started in Woodworking" "Woodworking for Beginners" That was before the ingenious discovery by the book ...
<b>The Good: </b>The best way to join two pieces of wood together, period. <b>The Bad: </b>The price. <b>The Bottom Line: </b>One of those cases where the best really is that good. <b>NSY rating: </b>FIVE THUMBS UP (5/5)
This has absolutely nothing to do with woodworking. I'm terribly sorry. I try to stay on topic, really I do. But sometimes something comes along that's just so odd, I have to share it with everyone, even though there isn't even the faintest connection between woodworking and the subject at hand.
What can I say... it's plans to make baby wipes with your table saw. How cool is that.
I'm a big fan of Woodweb's forums. Here you can find anything from reclaimed antique pine timbers, 10,000 boardfeet at a time, to a box of snakewood selling for an unbelievable $4/lb (that's $18/bf).
Today I was working with a walnut burl piece, about 11"x15"x0.355", give or take 0.0015". Unfortunately, it had a big old hole in it.
I've been making dovetails for the past week, which means I've screwed up a lot of dovetails. In no particular order, here are some of the lessons I've learned.
There's two things to understand about the Incra system. One is that it is a router fence, not a jig. Two is the near-perfect accuracy of the positioning system.