The excellent Dremel rotary tool has been with us for almost a century. Invented in 1932 by a man named… you got it, Dremel; this compact rotary tool mimics the work of more extensive, more cumbersome tools, such as drills, grinders, routers, and scroll saws. Its compact size and light weight make it ideal for … Read more
Nothing lasts forever, including the hardware on your doors, windows and cabinets. Hardware will become corroded and worn with time, driving people to either replace it or just paint over it. Many older homes have beautiful brass door and cabinet hardware, which isn’t visible because it is buried under several layers of paint. Of course, … Read more
Amongst the lesser known specialty power tools one might find in a woodworking shop is the lathe. By and large, most of us woodworkers don’t have one. That’s because the lathe is a specialty tool, with certain specific machining operations that it’s designed to do. If we don’t do those operations, then we have little … Read more
Before cordless drill/drivers, before the corded electric drill, woodworkers still needed to make holes. In fact, if you go back far enough in time, you’ll find that they needed to make more holes than we do today. That’s because woodworkers held things together with fitted wood pegs, rather than doing it with screws and nails, … Read more