Woodworking made easy
Founded in 1970, the Whiteside Machine Company was established as a general-purpose machine shop that started in the basement of Bill & Bobbie Whiteside’s home in Western North Carolina. Being located near the soaring furniture manufacturing town of Hickory, the Whiteside Machine Company had often been instrumental in the repairing and the making of special […]
The more we find ourselves moving into urban environments, the more we begin to realize the big role that factors such as space, time, efficiency, and cost can play. This is no different when we are suddenly presented with a new way of working and interacting with our tools. The decision to go cordless can […]
Carving has always been a laborious task including a lot of elbow grease and tools which consistently require sharpening after every cut. Since its inception, Kevin Inkster, the founder of Arbortech and the Inventor of the Woodcarver, prototyped the first of his commercially-produced Arbortech woodworking accessories – the Arbortech Woodcarver Blade. Sold as an angle […]
In 2018, the woodworking joinery and knockdown industry welcomed a new player into the game. Providing the user with a new, improved, secure, easy-to-install, and concealed solution that ensures that the end-user can put together his/her furniture with ease and without compromising the overall visual aesthetic of the furniture. Striplox can be mounted in a […]
By now, we all know about the benefits of going cordless especially when it comes to the use of drills and drivers which usually need to be used together for a single job. For table saws, portable circular saws, and miter saws however, the cordless option is a fairly new one. And an especially mind numbing […]
A dusty wood workshop is hardly every adequately complemented with a broom a dust-pan. It just doesn’t work. Too often the dust which we are generating when we are cutting timber on our circular, mitre and jigsaw is simply too fine to be swept up and collected in a dustpan. Our thicknessers and jointers are […]
In our last article on the Incra Tools – Upgrading Your Workflow: Crosscut Sleds we discussed the importance of evolving from working free-handedly to adding a permanent/semi-permanent fixed solution. We first used the incredibly helpful Incra Tools to make a coping sled for our table saws, now we wish to take on a larger and often a […]
Drilling into thicker and heavier materials by freehand and still maintaining vertical accuracy can be close to impossible, especially for a novice woodworker. We have previously discussed the uses and benefits of drill guides, however, in thick and heavier/denser material can present challenges on both your wrist and eventually your control. The drill press comes […]
A knot found embedded inside a piece of wood can either be a point of weakness which renders that part of the plank unusable, something we can cover up or (more seldom) something that we wish to preserve, show off and fall in love with. Today, we will discuss the matter of filling these knots […]
With so many new brand names and gimmicky products introduced on the market, we have been overwhelmed with how this category of power tool accessories has grown. This growth owes itself mostly to the reality that as we move into more modern and suburban environments, woodworking becomes an ever-increasing factor to consider when either establishing […]
Since the beginning, woodworking has always been a trade (like most professional trades) with set standards of practices and methodologies. Even though this is so, woodworking has always carried a crafty Do-It-Yourself element which lends its origins mostly to the fact that a majority of professional woodworkers started working from home. Restrictions of space, time, […]
Adding a table to your workflow, whether on a circular saw or sander gives you more control and increases your potential for versatility. This is no different when it comes to these huge, heavy and cumbersome machines which we love so much. The plunge router is one of the most multifunctional power tools which you […]
