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Rockler offers both Aluminum and Phenolic router plates that fit nearly every router on the market. Read on for more information about choosing a guide for your router table.

Should you make your own cabinet doors and drawer fronts or buy them? It's a good question to ask yourself, whether you are a professional cabinetmaker, a weekend woodworker, or just someone who has a kitchen that needs a little updating.

Where do you store your wood clamps? Stacked in a corner? Mixed in with a pile of wood? Hung precariously from a makeshift 2x4 hook on the wall? Or, wherever you last used them? The middle of a glue-up is no time to be searching for the clamps you need. But for many of us, sadly, that's the way things often go. A perfect solution is to store your clamps on a Pack Rack Plus Clamp and Tool Storage Cart . With vast amounts of interior space and a few simple add-ons, it also accommodates a huge variety of tools and supplies. Best of all, it smoothly rolls wherever you need it most, keeping everything you need close at hand and neatly organized.

Festool's Dust Extraction Systems prove to be more than simple shop vacuums, but what do you need to know before taking the plunge?

This table includes some challenging woodworking techniques, but can be built in a short period of time, and the end result is useful and attractive.

In this video, Nick Brady demonstrates the best way to coil a band saw blade.

Can you use a router table as a jointer? As we've said before, "Yes, you can."

Finishes that clean up with water are often referred to as "water-based", which is a little misleading. From a technical standpoint, "waterborne" is a much more fitting term.

Turning is only one way to make a wooden bowl in your shop, here the author displays a bowl that she made by cutting out segments on a scroll saw.

As environmental sciences get more sophisticated, woodworkers are starting to pay more attention to what finishes they use and what effect they have on the environment.

Does anybody have any instructions or ideas on how to make and glue up raised panel doors with mitered corners?