Panel Saw

This is like a huge radial arm or chop saw. We use it to cross cut sheets of plywood. The saw is a standard circular saw mounted on tracks The tracks are mounted on our homemade frame. Along the bottom, you can see a lip to hold the plywood in place. Here’s a...

Radial Arm Saw

A How-To by a HS Tech Student Common Sense Parts of Saw: a 1/8″ circular blade a blade guard a fence (not the one you use to keep out burglars) some measuring tape to attach onto your fence Steps Taken when Cutting: Measure out wanted length of wood and “X” the side...

Rotozip

 As seen on TV! The RotoZip. Yup, that tool you see on TV, late at night. The very kind folks at the RotoZip company sent us a few units to try out. Here, we’re setting up to cut the circles for Anythig goes. We cut a couple of circular jigs to guide the...

Hellerman Tool

This scary looking thing is a Hellerman ToolWhen I first saw this thing, I started thinking about interesting horror movies. Here’s how it works. The rubber sleeve fits over the three pointy prongs. Squeeze the handle and the prongs spread the open creating a space...