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• Gmaxx Series

  by Peter Breu

  Ghudo, a German tool maker, recently entered the U.S. tool market with a new sawblade line called the Gmaxx series that boasts high quality with a high-value price.The ...

• Plane Blades and Chisels Need a Flat and Polished Back

  by Chris Gochnour

  A sharp-cutting plane blade or chisel depends upon the meeting between two flat, polished surfaces. That's why you need to pay as much attention to the backs of ...

• Quadra-Cut Router Bits

  by Gregory Paolini

  Using a router is the most efficient way to profile an edge. Unfortunately, the speed comes with a tradeoff. The cut surface is left with milling marks that need ...

• New Blades for Track-Guided Saws

  by Mark Edmundson

• Blades for Chip-Free Cuts on Sheet Goods

  by Mark Schofield

• New Sawblades from Forrest and Delta

  by Mark Schofield

• Q & A: Thin-Kerf Blade Needs Thin Riving Knife

  by Bob Nash

• Sawblades

  by Tom Walz

  Most tablesaws come equipped with a combination blade designed to make both crosscuts and ripcuts in a variety of materials. However, those blades don't excel at ...

• A Guide to Guide Bushings

  by Gregory Paolini

  A router equipped with a guide bushing is often the simplest way to make accurate and repeatable router cuts. Used with simple shopmade templates, bushings make ...

• Thin-Kerf Blades Are for Everyone

  by Roland Johnson

  Roland Johnson set out to test two widely held beliefs about thin-kerf tablesaw blades: 1) that they make it easier to cut thick stock, and 2) that they are more ...

• Do More with Your Dado Set

  by Steve Latta

  The dado set is a great tablesaw accessory that is unmatched at a variety of operations-grooving, dadoing, rabbeting, and tenoning-but you must use it properly ...

• Q & A: Silence a Whistling Tablesaw Blade

  by John White

• Not all Carbide is Created Equal

  by Mark Schofield

  Invented in Germany in the 1920s, tungsten carbide is a dense, hard, wear-resistant material that now is everywhere from giant mining tools to the rolling ball ...

• Q & A: Q&A: Can a Miter-Saw Blade Be Used on a Tablesaw?

  by John Leko

• Q & A: Which Blades for My Bandsaw?

  by Michael C. Fortune