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Power tools make many tasks in woodworking, carpentry and home improvement faster and more efficient, but choosing the right tool and using it properly can be the difference between great results and disaster. These articles, collected from Fine Woodworking, along with the original content provided by editor Paul Anthony, offer expert advice on how to choose tools based on features and value and also cover basic to advanced techniques.
What's Inside:
- Making the most of your jigsaw.
- Biscuit basics.
- No-frills router table.
- Tablesaw tune-up.
- The right drill for the job.
- All about bandsaw blades.
- Jointer savvy.
"There's a lot to know." Were truer words ever said about the vast array and capability of today's power tools? Now renowned woodworker Paul Anthony and Fine Woodworking bring you the definitive guide to power tools - all you need to know to choose, use, outfit and keep tools working their best!
If you're in the market you'll be happy to find that each tool's value and unique features are explored. If you want to ramp up the tools you already own you'll discover new ways to get more out of your old friends. And if you want to refine your techniques and advance your skills look no further. Expert advice will be yours on every page.
How to get the most clout from today's power tools:
- Fine Woodworking's best and timeliest power tool articles gathered together in one indispensable resource.
- Includes often-overlooked power tools.
- Expert in-depth coverage of routers, tablesaws, drill presses and hollow-chisel mortisers, bandsaws, jointers, planers and shapers, scrollsaws, oscillating spindle sanders, circular saws, jig saws.
- Step-by-step photos and instructions.
- Wide-ranging special feature articles . . . how to choose the right drill bit, master biscuit basics, soup up your 14-inch bandsaw, choose five smart router bits, tame power tool noise and workshop dust . . . much more!
- By experts renowned for their proficiency with their tools of choice.
- Deserves a place of honor on every workbench!
A word from the editor about Working with Power Tools . . .
"Today's top woodworkers share their techniques, tricks and approaches for choosing, using and tuning power tools to bring out the best of your woodworking talents. Whether you're new to the craft or on your fifth router, this book is bound to help vault you forward in the world of woodworking. More power to you!" -- Paul Anthony
From the Introduction
Woodworkers in the 21st century are the luckiest ever. We have available to us a selection of power tools and machines that would have amazed our woodworking forbears a century or two ago. In addition to powerful high-tech tablesaws, jointers, and planers, we rely daily on electric drills, routers, jigsaws, sanders, and other portable power tools.
It's tempting to romanticize working wood in simpler times, quietly handplaning boards, cranking away at a bit and brace to drill holes, or leisurely cutting joints with handsaws and chisels. But the truth is, building furniture and cabinets solely with hand tools was hard, sweaty work. You can bet that woodworkers of the past would have jumped at the opportunity to power plane boards or cut joints with a tablesaw or router. If you think they wouldn't have traded in their sharkskin "sandpaper" for a random-orbit sander, then you are an incurable romantic indeed. Just like us, those guys were looking for the quickest, most accurate way to get the job done.
For all the power tools we have these days, though, we often don't use them to best advantage. They may not be tuned up properly or outfitted with the best bits or cutters. Or we may simply be handling the tool or workpiece incorrectly. Furthermore, many tools require jigs of some sort to perform specific operations. There's a lot to know.
Fortunately, you'll find much of what you need to know in this collection of expert advice culled from the pages of Fine Woodworking magazine. Here, some of today's top woodworkers share their techniques, tricks, and approaches for choosing, using, and tuning power tools to bring out the best of your woodworking talents. Regardless of whether you're new to the craft or are already on your fifth router, this book is bound to help vault you forward in the world of woodworking. More power to you!
--Paul Anthony, editor
About the Author
Paul Anthony is a professional woodworker, author and photographer living in Riegelsville, Pennsylvania.
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