Page 19 - Learn Woodworking Tips with Rockler

When you're allocating funds for tools and equipment, it only makes sense to give a nod to the measuring department.

The new Triton 3.25HP router motor features a classic design and the same diameter as the discontinued Porter Cable 7518. It's the perfect motor for router table lifts and offers no-frills power and performance, all day, every day. Triton’s heavy duty TFBR001MOTOR is a 3.25HP router motor that powers through the most demanding lift-mounted tasks, including raising panels, routing stiles and rails and applying larger roundovers and other edge profiles. Mount the motor in the Rockler Pro Lift (sold separately), for easy height adjustments and bit changes. Old school design promises rugged reliability.

These hollowform vases were turned using specialized tools to carve out the inside of the wood blanks, a process most turners can learn fairly quickly.

What are the best practices for gluing up a panel? Try these tips to improve your panel-making tasks.A well-made panel should be flat, sturdy and have an overall grain pattern that looks like it grew that way. Achieving these goals takes thoughtful assembly and good technique. Here are a few suggestions that can help.Updated 10/20/22

This planer cart makes a handy addition to any shop, with a place for your benchtop planer, an extendable outfeed table, and room for additional storage.

All you need to make these tree ornaments is a mini lathe, a set of turning tools and wood or acrylic turning blanks. Even a small scrap of wood can be made into a beautiful a miniature tree ornament.

These epoxy-filled holiday pattern ornaments are a twist on scroll saw holiday ornaments you may have seen. Cut out the pattern and fill the voids with Table Top Epoxy. You can color the epoxy with a rainbow of pigment colors and metallics. Choose your own pattern or use one of the five we provide in the plan or as CNC design files.

As you may have noticed, router lifts have been gaining in popularity over the past few years - to the point that now they're considered a near-necessity among frequent router table users.

In this video, David Picciuto tackles a retro cherry plywood stereo console.

Many woodworkers find that a crosscut sled has a couple of appreciable advantages over a miter gauge.

This system of integrated fittings and attachments is designed with the hobbyist woodworker's dust collection needs specifically in mind, and we think it has the potential to become the standard in smaller woodshops everywhere.