Page 3 - Cutting and Shaping Wood

Cutterheads with carbide inserts is a relatively new technology for home-shop jointers and planers. It improves cutting quality on tricky grain, reduces noise and eases routine maintenance.

Planers and jointers are essential tools for achieving smooth, flat surfaces and precise dimensions.

Properly preparing lumber is a key to successful woodworking. These two tools are essential to that surfacing process.

From specialized blades to guide rails and cordless options, there area wide variety of enhancements available for track saws that can improve both their accuracy and efficiency.

There are a number of aftermarket products and a shopbuilt jig that can give your circular saw a performance boost without breaking the bank. Here are some options.

There are a number of aftermarket products and a shop-built jig that can give your circular saw a performance boost without breaking the bank. Here are some options.

Does anybody have any instructions or ideas on how to make and glue up raised panel doors with mitered corners?

I have stored my planer on the ground for years and lifted it up to the workbench whenever I needed to use it.

Planes come in several different sizes and slopes for different work, so some thought needs to go into which one to use in a given situation.

As we pointed out in part one of this overview, getting set up and cutting near-perfect coves can be an easy, frustration-free procedure - especially if you have a reliable cove cutting jig.

Coves are one of the most common decorative shapes in woodworking. You'll find them in various sizes on furniture, picture frames, crown molding and just about anything else made of wood that incorporates decorative shapes.