Workshop Power Tools
Books and DVD's about Selecting, Using and Maintaining Power Tools in your Workshop

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Workshop Power Tools

The Bandsaw Book
A Comprehensive Guide to The Most Versatile Tool In The Workshop ... The Bandsaw. The bandsaw is found in three out of four professional woodshops. In fact, its the most widely used woodworking tool of all. Although deceptively simple -- a steel blade rotating around two rubber-clad wheels -- the bandsaw does its best work when its properly tuned. Organized for easy access, the book provides in-depth, practical information on setup, tuning, choosing blades, and operation. Also covered are all bandsaw techniques from basic to advanced. More than 225 color photos and illustrations.

Care and Repair of Shop Machines
A Complete Guide to Setup, Troubleshooting and Maintenance of Shop Machines. Woodshop tools are a major investment -- and keeping them in good running order is essential. A veteran woodworker, John White shows you how to assemble, tune, maintain and repair the machines that you count on. Throughout the book, White's approach is practical, straight-forward, and effective with chapters on tune-up, the jointer, the table saw, the thickness planer, the drill press, the bandsaw, the router table and the miter saw. This is the first book you'll reach for when your machines aren't performing, and its the book you need to keep them running at their best.

The Complete Guide to Sharpening
A Comprehensive Guide to Sharpening Tools - From Chisels to Drill Bits. You know how frustrating it is to work wood with tools that are dull. All that is over. Tool expert Leonard Lee has consolidated a lifetime of study of sharpening methods, techniques, and devices into the most practical reference on the subject. You'll discover the most effective ways to sharpen your tools -- from chisels to drill bits. You'll get better edges than on most razor blades, and you'll learn how to shape them to cut better and stay sharp longer. In fact, Lee's simple principles and some basic equipment wil allow you to sharpen any woodworking tool you are likely to encounter.

Complete Illustrated Guide to Routers
Expand Your Router Skills With A Thorough Understanding of the Router and What You Can Achieve With it. The router, for its simple design, is one of the most versatile tools you can own. You can shape decorative profiles, cut grooves, flush-trim, raise panels, and cut almost any joint. More than 800 photo and drawings show you how to use and care for your router and how to get the most from it. In addition to mastering the use of your router, you'll also learn about router tables, and how to make one that works perfectly in your shop.

Complete Illustrated Guide to Using Woodworking Tools
A Visual Guide to Using Hand and Power Woodworking Tools. This step-by-step pictorial reference covers using all the tools found in a modern woodworking shop. Organized for quick access, this book makes it easy to find exactly the technique you are looking for. Over 850 photos and drawings illustrate using hand and power tools, including choosing the right tool for the job, setting it up, and basic and special operations.

Homeowner's Ultimate Tool Guide
Choose The Right Tool for Every Home Improvement Job. If you have the proper tools, you have a much better chance of getting every home improvement job done right. With this essential guide, you'll find out exactly what tool you need, how to ask for it at the hardware store, and what to do with it when you get home. The Homeowners Ultimate Tool Guide shows you how you can easily assemble a tool kit for any home improvement job -- including suggestions for plumbing, electrical, carpentry, painting, tiling -- even car repair.

The Lathe Book
A Complete Guide to The Lathe and Lathe Accessories. No other book gives you such valuable information on the essential turning tool. Completely revised and updated, The Lathe Book is the comprehensive guide to woodturning machinery, incorporating the many innovations in the lathe and its accessories. The Lathe Book covers every aspect of the lathe, including how to choose one, how to select tools and accessories, how to maintain and repair the machine, and basic techniques.

Lathes and Turning Techniques
Learn The Secrets of Production Wood Turning On A Lathe. In these 36 Fine Woodworking articles, woodworkers reveal the secrets of production turning and share information on decorative folk turning, spindle turning, and sharpening and honing tools. There are also Wood Turning techniques and projects -- everything from traditional nutcrackers to 3-ft.-wide burl platters. The work is both accessible and diverse. With one lathe, a half-dozen tools, and some lumber you can turn all the parts for a chair or hollow out a bowl.

Machine and Hand Joinery
Learn Joinery Secrets to Long-Lasting Joints Using Both Traditional Hand Tools and Modern Machine Tools. The concept of joinery is as old as recorded history. Furniture with hand-cut dovetail joints has been found entombed with the mummies dating back to ancient Egypt. Several thousand years later, dovetails are still being used today to fasten objects of wood. The fact that there are thousands and thousands of pieces from 18th century still being used today shows just how durable good joinery can be. In these articles collected by the editors of Fine Woodworking magazine, you'll learn how to use your hand and power tools to make tight joints that will help your furniture last for generations.

Making Mortise and Tenon Joints - DVD
Produce Clean and Quick Mortise and Tenon Joints, By Hand or Machine.
Woodworkers rely on the versatile mortise-and-tenon joint for making sturdy frames, panels, stools, tables and stands. Frank Klausz shows you how to make the joint cleanly and quickly, using hand tools or basic woodshop machines.
Also Available In VHS Format

Mastering Woodworking Machines
How To Choose, Set Up and Tune Your Woodworking Machines for Safety, Precision and Efficiency. If you have invested in woodworking machines, you want and need to get the most out of them. You'll learn how to choose, set up, and tune your machine for safety, precision, and efficiency. The common-sense techniques will help you avoid frustrating mistakes and put you in complete control of your woodworking projects. A systematic approach picks up where owners manuals leave off, and it applies to all brands and makes of machinery. You'll also learn how to prepare stock effectively and how to produce the joints and cabinet parts you need without any expensive add-on jigs. Whatever you want to make in your shop, you'll work more efficiently with an expert at your elbow.
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Mastering Woodworking Machines - DVD
A Master Craftsman's Insight Into Machine Woodworking. A companion video to the "Mastering Woodworking Machines" book, this DVD or VHS video provides an in-depth insights into using woodworking machines. Mark Duginske offers a master's insights into machine woodworking and some honest shortcuts that will help you in your own journey toward woodworking precision. You'll see how to do fast, elegant joinery with basic power tools (with no need for expensive gadgets) and how to achieve zero-frustration, complete-control woodworking with machines.
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Mastering Your Band Saw - DVD
An Expert Helps You Get Optimum Performance From Your Bandsaw. Through his books and magazine articles and in seminars across the country, Mark Duginske has helped thousands of bandsaw owners tweak their wayward machines into precision tune. He will show you how to do that and more, including some really extraordinary bandsaw tricks and techniques.
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Mastering Your Table Saw - DVD
Using Your Table Saw To It's Full Advantage. If you make furniture, the table saw is one of the cornerstone machines in your shop. Kelly Mehler, who makes some of the most beautiful furniture in America, shows you how to get the best out of this essential tool. In this video, you'll learn the differences between table saws. You'll discover how to choose the right one for your working style, set it up right the first time and adjust it so that it runs safely and efficiently.
Also Available in VHS Format

The Router Book
A Complete Guide to The Router and Router Accessories. If you're looking for the most complete guide to the router, than this is your book you need. The Router Book covers it all -- from the tool's wide range of uses to tips for maintaining its best condition. Router expert Pat Warner sorts through the great variety of tools on the market and offers you sound, practical advice. From choosing the right router for your own needs to correct operating methods and time-saving jigs, The Router Book slices quickly to the core of the subject.

Radial Arm Saw Joinery - VHS
Learn to Create Accurate Joints with Your Radial Arm Saw. You can use an ordinary radial-arm saw to cut precise joints for making furniture. Curtis Erpelding shows you how you can rely on this power tool to build a variety of well-crafted, clever pieces.

Router Jigs and Techniques - DVD
Get The Most Out of Your Versatile Router. Discover dozens of ways that the router can be used to increase your productivity -- and creativity -- in the workshop. In this video, you'll learn basic router joinery and how to rout the subtle shapes necessary to create a handsome hand mirror (plans for the hand mirror are in the accompanying booklet).
Also Available in VHS Format

Router Joinery - DVD
Use Your Router to Cut A Wide Variety of Joints Quickly and Accurately. Routers can be used to cut a wide variety of joints quickly and accurately. In this video, professional woodworker Gary Rogowski demonstrates router joinery techniques that can be mastered by any woodworker. You'll learn why correct setup and good stock preparation are essential to accurate work, and you'll see how to cut common frame and carcase joints using a hand-held or table-mounted router.
Also Available in VHS Format

The Shaper Book
Techniques for Using This Versatile and Productive Workshop Machine .... The Wood Shaper. With the proliferation of table-mounted routers in the woodshop, most woodworkers have never experienced the power and precision that a stationary shaper has to offer. In addition to a quiet, vibration-free cut, the shaper allows you to surpass the capabilities of the router by offering wider, deeper cuts, production runs, and custom moldings. In this book, author Lonnie Bird demonstrates how versatile and extremely productive the shaper can be. You'll see that the shaper, with its vast assortment of cutterheads, fences and jigs, can handle a wide variety of woodworking applications.

The Table Saw Book
Completely Revised and Updated, Learn How to Choose and Use A Table Saw. How to get the most out of this essential tool. This comprehensive shop reference is now completely revised and updated with new color photography throughout. You'll learn what to look for in choosing a table saw and accessories (including sawblades). He gives valuable tips on setting up a table-saw work area in your shop, and shows how to tune and maintain the saw for smooth, accurate, and safe operation. Mehler also covers the many innovations in tablesaw design and new accessories since the last edition.

The Versatile Router - DVD
Learn From An Expert How To Get The Most Out of Your Router. Woodworkers of every skill level will find useful info in this DVD about the most versatile power tool in the shop. For router expert Pat Warner, the basic idea is to use the router as a "finishing" tool: do all your rough-cutting and hogging with other power tools, then remove the last 1/32 in. of wood with the router, in a clean, surgical stroke. Warner shows you how to rout clean circles and holes; how to make half-lap joints at the ends of boards, and laps in the middle of boards that cross each other at any angle you choose. There's a section on the anatomy of a fixed-base router, another on the use of the collar guide for precise template work, and a lesson on getting two different shapes from the same decorative-profile bit.

Working With Power Tools
Unlock Your Tool's Power. "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!

Working With Routers
Learn How To Get The Most Out Of Your Router. For most woodworkers, the router is an essential power tool because it can do so much -- whether you are working with solid wood, sheet goods, or veneer. Add a router table and you can cut miles of moldings, machine fine joints, and do all these tasks with precision and ease. Articles contained in this book provide overviews on the different types of routers and router tables and how to use them to finish projects successfully.

Working With Tablesaws
Learn Basic Tablesaw Operations as Well as Special Tablesaw Tasks and Techniques. The tablesaw is the work horse of the modern wood shop. Peerless at ripping stock, this versatile tool can also crosscut accurately and cut a wide variety of joints. This book covers basic tablesaw operations as well as special tasks like cutting coves. Expert woodworkers also offer advice on tablesaw joinery, dust control, and making jigs.

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