Layout, Measuring, and Marking Tools
Get the most out of your layout, measuring, and marking tools in your woodworking shop. Find out tips and tricks for using tape measures, steel rules, squares, marking gauges, and marking knives.
These super-accurate layout helpers earned a permanent place in the WOOD® magazine shop.
Sometimes close enough is close enough. But when precision matters, turn to calipers.
Craftsmanship at a glance.
Craftsmen made them just for kicks.
What tools does a beginning woodworker need, and how should he or she acquire them? From a poll of WOOD® magazine staff members, we assembled a basic tool kit.
Wixey recently introduced the WR2000 Digital Height Gauge, which allows you to dial in tablesaw-blade and router-bit heights to within 0.001 of an inch.
One of the most important woodworking tools you should own is a dead-on-accurate steel rule.
Tip of the Day
Dowel-rod "key" pulls sandpaper tight on drums
If you have trouble getting the sandpaper tight on your sleeveless sanding drums, try this trick.... read more