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Need to cut a circle or ellipse shape for your next project? The router circle and ellipse cutting jig and makes it easy to cut circles and ellipse shapes over a wide range of dimensions and proportions.

This elegant and well constructed sideboard table was made using a piece of rare African bubinga.

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

By itself, the fence that came with your table saw isn't always enough. Sometimes you need to add an "auxiliary" fence. But how do you keep it attached?

Think globally when considering which wood to use when you're making your next turning project.

Setting up an efficient and easy-to-use dust collection system is important in every woodworking shop. A workshop with excessive piles of wood chips and surfaces coated in sawdust can affect how well you work and how much you enjoy being in your shop. More importantly, wood dust can directly impact your personal health and safety. The best woodworking dust collection systems contain and collect dust at the source, minimize any mess that is left after your project is complete, make it easy to clean up the mess that is left behind, and makes your shop a healthier place to work. In this article you'll learn how to select and set up the best dust collector and dust collection accessories for your shop.

Woodworkers are all more-or-less obsessed with squareness. They have to be. Even small variances from dead-on 90 degrees tend to turn up as ugly gaps, lids that don’t fit, wonky cabinets - you name it. Consequently, most spend a fair amount of time checking angles for accuracy.

Making river tables continues to be a popular project. Adding a creative twist to building tables with live-edge slabs, river tables place the live edges in the middle of the table and fill the gap between the two sides with epoxy resin. We worked with Cass Eck, founder of Stonemill & Co., to make a large river table display for the Grand Opening of the new Rockler store in Fairfax, Virginia. The result is this beautiful table that features live-edge maple slabs, grey color MAS epoxy and I-Semble Crossed Bar Steel Legs. Cass created a video that demonstrates the entire process of how she built this river table, including lots of tips and tricks.

This greenhouse offers great seasonal storage for your plants while also being easy to take apart.

In this video, Michael Alm builds a spline jig and demonstrates how to use it to spline a miter.

Learn how a digital readout can take your router table set-up to the next level.