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This classic American Shaker-Style dresser is modernized with some skillful techniques and attractive flared maple.

Are the good old-fashioned tape measure, protracto and try square on their way out?

How much router do you need in your router table?

With Quadra-Cut router bits, Freud's innovation has to do mainly with how they changed cutting geometry.

What's the best way to deal with the dumb end of a board? Whether it's ripping down lumber or cutting a long piece of trim on a compound miter saw, you have to have some way of overcoming the effects of gravity and leverage at the out-feed end of the operation.

A drill press is a handy tool in part because it can be rigged up to double as a mortise machine or stand in for a spindle sander. Are there any drawbacks?

The SawStop brand products might carry a somewhat higher price tag, but the safety innovations are well worth it in the shop.

Over the past several years, woodworkers in greater and greater numbers have started taking woodshop dust control seriously.

These innovative router jigs make your router or router table even more versatile. 

Through turning you can create unique stretchers and a nice footrest for your shop stool.

In this video, David Picciuto takes a tour of his shop and explains what he does and does not like about his collection of the equipment.