This post is part of a paid partnership with the Home Depot and contains affiliate links. Let me tell you about my robotic vacuum. My shop used to be dirty, like straight-up filthy. I swept, I [...]
After living with the Bosch Daredevil spade bits for a while I have a deeper understanding of them, and I have also learned to kludge them into jobs they weren't meant for.
Am I the only one who grew up watching Good Eats with Alton Brown? (update: he is back with new episodes!) There is something he used to say on his show about “stinkin’ unitaskers”. [...]
I recently did a PC build for Axpona 2018. I really wanted the wooden PC case to attach to a white-oak base using a couple of 6010 aluminum struts, but I have ZERO experience cutting metal. [...]
This post is part of a paid partnership with the Home Depot. Primarily these saws are made for left vs. right handed people…but why do people buy and make left vs right handed circular [...]
I recently finished my SECOND bathroom remodel in the last 12 months…so that was a thing. There are so many, weird and specialized tasks you tackle in doing a home renovation [...]
I recently rearranged my shop to give myself more space in the middle of my shop to build BIG stuff. I have found that I really like to build large things, and I had to make my shop layout [...]
I have a day job, have you noticed that yet? My 9-5 as a technologist and my 5-9 (well 8-12, because I have kids too. I am a crazy person.) Most of my woodworking, content creation, home [...]
We all envy the amazing medical grade looking cabinet saws, monster truck tire size band saw wheels, and we get a little tingle looking at an old grimey 30” planer. Fully knowing that none of [...]
The RIDGID MEGAMax the Die Hard 2: Die Harder of tool names. Ridgid’s MEGAMax isn’t the most versatile of multi-tools…yet. What it does do though, it does as well as any tool in [...]
Ok, so when most people need to drill a precision hole for a finished piece of furniture, or a mortise for a hinge, they reach for a forstner bit. When they need to drill a hole fast they reach [...]
Sanding is boring. Let’s just get that out of the way. But we have basically been doing it the same way since Festool released the first random orbit sander in 1972. Since then, there [...]
It is not very often that I get an opportunity like this (this actually the first time) to be the first out there to review a brand new tool. Yet, here I am looking at this beauty of a new saw [...]
This post contains affiliate links Ryobi ONE+ Hybrid LED Color Range Work Light Review I had never really cared about an LED work light as a woodworker until I saw the new Ryobi 18-Volt ONE+ [...]
The article below contains affiliate links So its time for your seasonal table saw cleaning, let me help. Every year with the changing of seasons we are reminded by those little oxidation marks [...]
The below article Contains Affiliate Links First Order Retrievability is BIG for Productivity and Shop Organization I have a confession to make, I am not a man who keeps a clean and organized [...]
The Article below contains affiliate links It is 2018, 3 years after George Mcfly traveled into the “future” and found the magic of a tomorrowland world with hoverboards, flying cars, and all [...]
The Article below contains affiliate links Worm drive saws are a staple in a framing carpenters or roofers tool bag, and none more so than the classic SKIL Worm Drive saw, so much so that [...]
Hey Guys, I really wanted to look at a problem we have all probably had, which joint is right for my project and budget? What I really wanted to do is compare popular joinery techniques and test [...]
(this article contains affiliate links, but is not sponsored by the manufacturer) I am ALL about shop safety, Norm taught me well as a kid, I never want to be taken out of my shop by a dumb [...]
As sort of a follow up to my RIDGID unboxing video from a few months back I wanted to share with you guys what my 5 most used tools were from RIDGID. Check out the video to find out more! [...]
When you go to home depot or whatever your hardware store of choice is there are so many impact drivers and drills to choose from but why? I mean I get it there are a bunch of different brands, [...]
You can get a chisel for a dollar. You can get one for several hundred, but what’s the difference? Are expensive chisels really worth the money? Are cheap ones no good? In this video, I [...]
It is not very often that you come across this many tools at one time. In this video, I unbox basically all of the new RIDGID 5X line. By no means is this a review, those will come later, but I [...]
Hey Lifers (I hope you don’t mind me calling you that) Checkout the video of the Smoothing Plane Shoot Out on these three number four smoothing planes. Please Like and Subscribe for more [...]
I am a hybrid woodworker I suppose, I guess I am really a “get stuff done” woodworker. The electric planer is a thing of beauty for milling up gnarly grain and rough sawn stock. For fine tuning [...]
Dozuki Z Saw As a hand tool woodworker or a hybrid woodworker looking for a little more finesse or a maybe some extra love into a project you have a few options for cutting fine joinery. For a [...]
Makita XT248 Brushless Two Piece Combo by Rick LaFaver All carpenters, woodworker, tradesman, hel even homeowners and hobbyists have a few best friends that get them through the day. First off, [...]
If you watch any of Paul Sellers great videos online, you will know he almost exclusively uses his set of razor sharp chisels from ALDI. When he first mentioned these things I was still a little [...]
