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Workbench Tips and Tricks

8 ideas to make your bench work harder

Workshop Tip: Shopmade clamp squares up any carcase

Simple, low-profile clamp bar works for large boxes

Workshop Tip: Painter's tape helps with dovetail transfer

Three layers of tape creates a shallow rabbet to register against.

Workshop Tip: For perfect mortises, upgrade your edge guide

This router mortising jig captures the workpiece between two fences.

Use an inner tube to clamp weird glue-ups

In issue #285, Clark Kellogg assembles the sides of his hexagon boxes with some innovative clamps from an unlikely source: a bike shop.

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Router-table jigs for better results

September 16, 2020

Take this workshop workhorse even further with some select jigs
Workshop Tip: Hollow-chisel mortiser cuts time and trouble on half-blind dovetails

September 9, 2020

Remove most of the waste at the back of each socket before turning to the chisel for cleanup.
Essential hand-tool jigs for woodworkers

September 2, 2020

From shooting boards to work holding fixtures, check out this collection of jigs that make handwork easier and more accurate for any woodworker.
Workshop Tip: Square up a tracksaw with an add-on fence

August 26, 2020

Fence helps when aligning large pieces for square cuts
Workshop Tip: Speed Square is the perfect guide for mitering small parts

August 18, 2020

Setup works for tiny trimming cuts, back bevels, and mitering stringing
Workshop Tip: Pipe-clamp station adjusts for most glue-ups and stows easily

August 11, 2020

Sliding clamp supports solves problem of awkward pipe clamps
Workshop Tip: Reamer and router team up to bore holes at uncommon diameters

August 4, 2020

An easy way to bore odd-size holes.
Workshop Tip: Simple way to micro-adjust your rip fence

July 29, 2020

A block of wood and some playing cards help with tiny adjustments to the rip fence on your tablesaw.
Smart shop layout

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Get a peek into Vic Tesolin's mindset as he dreams up the layout of his new woodworking shop.
Workshop Tip: Outrigger steadies tablesaw tenon jig

July 21, 2020

A simple outrigger with a shoulder keeps tenoning jig from tipping during use

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