Page 5 - Tool Reviews

  1. Cutting frame joinery with a coping saw

    Hand Saw Overview: Coping Saw

    After the classic hand saw, the next most effective saw to master is the coping saw.
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  2. Shaper vs Router

    Shaper vs Router

    Do you need a shaper, or is a router and router table the better choice for your shop? Here are three expert opinions.
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  3. Digitizing a Router Lift

    Digitizing a Router Lift

    Learn how a digital readout can take your router table set-up to the next level.
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  4. Why Choose Sure-Foot Clamps?

    Why Choose Sure-Foot Clamps?

    A clamp's a clamp's a clamp: No reason to go out of your way for a "special kind" of pipe clamp, like Rockler's Sure-Foot Pipe Clamps, right? Not quite.
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  5. Fractional Calipers - Accuracy in a Familiar Form

    Fractional Calipers - Accuracy in a Familiar Form

    The more precise your woodworking becomes, the more precise your measuring tools need to be. And if you stick with woodworking long enough, in all likelyhood a time will come when you hear yourself say, "By gum, I need a caliper!"
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  6. Video: Three Joinery Jigs

    Video: Three Joinery Jigs

    In this video, DIY Creators take a look at three Rockler jigs and how to get the most out of them in your workshop.
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  7. Rockler 4-Piece Digital Measuring Kit

    Rockler 4-Piece Digital Measuring Kit

    This four piece digital measuring kit from Rockler offers numeric convenience and precision.
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  8. Plane and Simple Woodworking: Close Shaves

    Plane and Simple Woodworking: Close Shaves

    Spokeshaves are small plane blades and handles that are perfect for cutting round and curved shapes into your roughed-out workpieces.
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  9. Why Woodworkers Love Festool Kapex Miter Saw

    Why Woodworkers Love Festool Kapex Miter Saw

    Miter saws or cutoff saw as some call them, are standard issue in most woodworking workshops. They are ultra-handy for many reasons, but not every miter saw is created equal. In this Rockler demo we take a closer look at the Festool Kapex Miter Saw. Many consider this the Cadillac of miter saws. Precision is the watchword of Festool products, and the Kapex miter saw represents that well.
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  10. Plane and Simple Woodworking - Block Planes

    Plane and Simple Woodworking - Block Planes

    Block planes might seem like an antique from a different era of woodworking, but hand planes have a place in almost any modern shop for multiple tasks.
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  11. Festool TSC 55 K Cordless Track Saw

    Festool TSC 55 K Cordless Track Saw

    A further refinement of their high-performing cordless track saw now makes it even safer.
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