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Know Your Tools
Canadian Woodworking, offers guides to help woodworkers select, use, and maintain their tools effectively and confidently.
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The wide range of accessories available for angle grinders make them a “go-to” tool on the jobsite and around the home.
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While portable battery-powered generators (BPGs) deliver less power than fuel-powered generators and for much shorter periods of time, they do have distinct advantages.
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A very simple tool, the edge of a card scraper is pressed against the wood’s surface and moved across it, creating a shaving.
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Fuel-powered portable generators
What you need to know about fuel-powered portable generators.
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While hammers and mallets perform similar functions, the major difference between the two is that a hammer has a metal head while a mallet has a wooden or synthetic head.
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An OMT operates by high-speed oscillation, rather than rotating or reciprocating motion.
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An impact driver delivers significantly more torque than a drill / driver, and is less likely to twist your wrist when the fastener stops or binds.
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Although a coping saw can be used in several situations, the most common time it’s used is when coping inside corners of crown and baseboard mouldings.
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A jigsaw can make many types of cuts in a wide variety of materials. Its ability to make a fairly tight radius cut, or a cut to a marked line, is where they excel.
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Get the Most Out of Your Spoon-Carving Tools
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The reciprocating (a.k.a. recip) saw is the preferred choice for making aggressive cuts in wood, metal (steel, aluminum, copper and cast iron) and plastic.
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Router bits can do so many things in a woodworking shop, and they’re available in an assortment of general types.
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An unsung hero of a hand tool woodworker's kit, the shoulder plane can be used by every woodworker for a multitude of tasks. Although it's great for fine-tuning tenon fit, it's not a one-trick pony.
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Files and rasps allow you to carefully remove small amounts of material with a freeform approach, mainly on concave and convex edges. These shaping tools help create and fair gentle curves, fine-tune edges and reduce the amount of sanding needed on some small, rough, 3D surfaces.
