Accessories - Page 52 of 91

Recently, while building a cabinet for cassette tapes, I experimented with several methods for spacing the numerous dadoes needed. Using an auxiliary miter-gauge fence gave the measure of accuracy and…

I suspect that many of us use our routers upside-down, like a shaper, more than we do as a portable tool. I certainly do. But I don't like the flimsy…

I see the advantage of mounting an extra router base under the router table as suggested by Wallace Kunkel (Fine Woodworking #15, March '79). But instead of groping around under…

This gadget has saved me a lot of time when cutting duplicate lengths on the table saw. It's a spacer that ensures clearance between the cut-off stock and the rip…

This device helps prevent the underside of veneered plywood from splintering by scoring the veneer just ahead of the blade. To make it, cut a snug-fitting insert blank from aluminum…

Because the plywood end panels I make for kitchen cabinet jobs are usually worked the same way each time, I found myself setting the rip fence to the same measurements…

Faced with cutting 32 tenons on a recent project, I priced a new Delta tenoning jig and found it beyond my budget. So I put myself to work and made…

The Makita plunge router I have installed in my router table works beautifully. But adjusting the depth of the bit with the adjustment knob was awkward and tedious. I solved…

If you've ever attempted to crosscut a 6-ft.-long, 2-ft.-wide panel on the tablesaw, you know the operation is awkward, error-prone and even scary. By contrast, when you add the sliding…

Drilling two nail-sized holes in your tablesaw insert lets you tack the insert to a rough-cut blank and pattern-rout a replacement wooden insert that's exactly the size of the original.…