Tool-Rank.com Power Tool Blog:
This topic comes from an email I was sent last night pointing out that Makita cordless combo cases in Germany are hard plastic unlike the soft luggage style cases we get here in the US. They are basically larger versions of t (Read More)
Woodworking Magazine:
Marking gauges have all manner of ways for you to lock the head to the beam, but mostinvolve a screw or wedge mechanism. I think the coolest method I've ever seen is acam-lock on the vintage Star Too (Read More)
Popular Woodworking:
This week we enjoyed a visit from Matthew Grisley of LeighIndustries. He came in from Canada to demonstrate the company’s newest jig, theSuper FMT (frame-mortise-and-tenon jig). You remember the original FMT. To try and elimi (Read More)
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By Kate MichaelsAs if paucity of funds were not enough, smaller businesses now have to do an even harder tightrope walk because of the onset of global recession. It has become imperative for them to make judicious use of thei (Read More)
KoopTech:
Twitter ist – zumindest als Buzzword – auf der Agenda von Kommunikationsverantwortlichen und Entscheidern fest verankert. Doch wie und wann vollzieht sich der Wandel vom „Hype“ zu effizienten, pragmatischen und sinnvollen Mic (Read More)
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There’s a lot of sites out there that offer collaboration tools. From the simplified office collaboration tools like Google Documents and Zoho Writer, to the more sophisticated like Basecamp. In the end each of them appeal to (Read More)
Climate Feedback:
Olive Heffernan This week's Nature [subscription required] is the third in a series of special issues celebrating the life of Charles Darwin. It focuses on the dire challenges to Earth's biodiversity — and finds some reason f (Read More)
Tool-Rank.com Power Tool Blog:
Grinders are one of the few tools on the jobsite that are true multitaskers and likely a good reason to make sure you get a good one. They can cut, sand, grind, shape, polish and sharpen, something many of us do on a daily ba (Read More)
Engadget:
Remember the Land Warrior program, which only took 15 years and half a billion dollars outfit our troops with high-tech battlefield uniforms? With DisOPS ("distributed operations") Lockheed Martin is taking a different tack. (Read More)
Woodworking Magazine:
I like corded drills – as long as it's an umbilical cord.Actually, I do like my Makita corded drill for some things (mixing paint, for example).And I do like to use a corded drill when I have a heap (Read More)
Tom's Workbench:
One of the most popular ‘family’ of shows on TV is the CSI franchise. For some reason, people love to watch police crime scene investigators show up at some location, sift through the evidence and arrive at a conclusion of w (Read More)
Climate Feedback:
Olive HeffernanI've just returned from a two-day visit to the UK Met Office, where scientists are gathered this week to present and discuss the results of a five-year research initiative known as Ensembles. An EU-funded proje (Read More)
Matt's Basement Workshop:
Plow planes are nothing new, they’ve been a mainstay in hand tool shops for centuries. In fact the plow plane was and still is a tool that defined the craftsman. Whether it was an all wooden bodied plane with ebony inlays a (Read More)
Popular Woodworking:
I work among a group of tool addicts, and I fit right in because I am one too. Mytool dependency manifests itself in a couple of ways; I hoard the wrenches for routers,but the real monkey on my back is layout tools. My grandf (Read More)
Popular Woodworking:
We recently launched a new, fast way for you to get the exact project plan or articleyou’re looking for. It’s called WoodworkingNow –and here’s the skinny.WoodworkingNow is a huge collection of hand-picked articles from the p (Read More)
Woodworking Magazine:
Sometimes I feel a tad guilty for owning tools from Veritas, Lie-Nielsen and BlueSpruce. But then I pick up my very first chisel and I get over it.I've had that chisel since I graduated from college (Read More)
Tool-Rank.com Power Tool Blog:
If there is one thing that makes time fly on the jobsite, it is a good work environment. One of the easiest ways to improve your work environment is by adding a little Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture to your day.But you can't take (Read More)
Popular Woodworking:
Since our trip to the White Water ShakerVillage, I’ve been anticipating the poplar cupboard build. The cupboard, out ofthe four pieces we studied, has the most need for a furniture detective; A missingcrown moulding, and the (Read More)