Category Workshop Tips

A garage woodworker's honest take on choosing the best brushless jigsaw, including the trade-offs nobody mentions in spec sheets.

A garage woodworker's honest guide to choosing a cordless jigsaw that actually cuts square, plus the features that matter and the ones that don't.

An honest garage-shop guide to choosing your first router kit, including what actually matters and what I wasted money on.

A garage woodworker's honest guide to choosing the best router for cabinet making, from motor size and base style to table mounting and dust control.

A garage woodworker's honest take on choosing a plunge router for furniture making, including the mistakes I made and the specs that actually matter.

My honest take on choosing a palm router for beginners, based on years of garage-shop mistakes, round-overs, and one very expensive cracked workpiece.

I run a one-person garage shop, and this is how I would actually choose a cordless trim router: platform first, then depth adjustment, bases, and honest trade-offs.

How I choose a compact router for real garage woodworking, what actually matters in a palm router, and where the cheap ones cost you time.

A one-person garage take on the best table saw for ripping plywood, from fence accuracy and table depth to the support setup that finally straightened out my cuts.

What I look for in a table saw for furniture making when the shop is also the garage: fence repeatability, a flat top, arbor length, and the upgrades that matter more than horsepower.