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Tools and Reviews

Here you'll learn how to use power tools and hand tools to full advantage in your woodworking shop. These include the table saw, jointer, bandsaw, mitersaw, CNC machine and others.
The image shows a woodworking setup featuring a table saw sled with T-track clamps securing a piece of walnut wood. A hand is adjusting one of the blue Rockler-brand hold-down clamps, which are mounted on a MDF sled with embedded T-tracks for precise and safe cutting. The setup helps ensure stability and accuracy when making cuts on a table saw.
2025 WOOD Innovation Awards
EZ-Wings Miter Saw Stations
2024-WOOD Innovation Awards
Bencthtop Joiners
Shop Tested: Benchtop jointers
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Buying used tools
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WOOD Innovation Awards 2023
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Belt It Out: 5 Shop-Tested Belt Sanders
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 A Buyer's Guide to Benchtop CNC Machines
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Meet The Joinery Dream Team
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Our Favorite Specialty Chisels
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Clamp Beyond Your Clamp Capacity
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Our Favorite Doweling Jigs
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Shop Test: Benchtop Planers
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Wood Magazine Innovate Awards 2022
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Facing Favorites
Skilsaw on board.
Best Bang-For-The-Buck Tools
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Make your grinder greater
Milwaukee grinder.
DIY Tools for the Woodworker
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2018 Wood Magazine INNOV8 AWARDS
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The Power of Sharp
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Wood Magazine Innovate Awards 2020
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Save time with pocket holes
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Bluetooth stereos
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Buying a Workbench
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The (Mostly) Cordless Workshop
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Tools We Can't Live Without
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WOOD® Magazine Innovate Awards 2021
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Charged-up chainsaws
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Cutting Veneer With a Laminate Slitter
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2016 Gift recommendations
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Tools We Can't Live Without
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Do I need both a drawknife and spokeshave?
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China Pollution Crackdown Affects Tool Market
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The (Mostly) Cordless Workshop
Clamps under drawer
11 must-have cabinetmaking tools
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Listening Impressions
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Our favorite hand tools
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Woodworking Power Tools
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The Slitting Cutter
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Yesterday's Tools: Crown Molder
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TLC for Power Tools
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2013 WOOD® magazine Innov8 Awards
2 tenoning jigs
WOOD Magazine's 2014 Innov8 Awards
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2015 WOOD Innov8 Awards
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Top New Tools for 2010
2012 WOOD magazine Innov8 Awards
2012 WOOD® magazine Innov8 Awards
Ryobi benchtop planer
25 Best Innovations of the Past 25 Years
2011 WOOD Magazine Innov8 Awards
2011 WOOD Magazine Innov8 Awards
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Choosing Shop Casters
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Today's cordless tools
Handing money over a tool
The easy way to sell tools online
Plunge cutting
Tool review: Oscillating Multi-Tools
Resawing test
Wise Buys: Bench Grinders
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How a mortiser drills square holes
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Simple Pushblock Made From Rubber Float
Grinder drain
Grinder drain no longer a pain
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Scary sharp tools, without the aching arms
Stanley 77
The Stanley No. 77 Dowel and Rod Turner
The Shave
The Shave
Double-Duty duo
Double-duty duo
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Shape Wood Fast with a Spokeshave
2016 WOOD Innov8 Awards
2016 WOOD Innov8 Awards
Floor and benchtop drill presses
Why Buy BIG? (When Benchtop Will Do)
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Return of the Mortise Machine