Layout, Measuring, and Marking

Contributing Craftsman Jim Heavey offers some words of tough love

Even the best bench vise can’t properly hold every workpiece for every task without a little help. Here are a few of our favorites.

Here’s a dirt-simple and quick way to mark equal spacing along the edge of a workpiece.

I loved the Top Shop Tip by Warren Perkins in WOOD® magazine issue 187 where he drew two parallel lines on curved cuts and shot the gap with his bandsaw.