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  • A Plunge Base for the Colt Router

    Here’s a quick video of a new accessory from Bosch that allows you to turn their ever-popular trim router into a plunging model.

  • Can't get it here: AC-DC Power Tool

    It had to happen; sooner or later someone was bound to invent a tool that goes both ways.

  • T-Shirts of WOC

    I was at the World of Concrete (WOC), looking at machinery, talking to tool manufacturers, and what do you know, I find myself photographing T-shirts.

  • Better Than the Grateful Dead

    It’s the long-lost original World of Concrete in 60 Seconds.

  • Incredible Self-Propelled Dumpster

    The Equipter is a self-propelled dumpster that can be towed to the jobsite and then driven under its own power (it has a gasoline engine) to wherever it needs to be.

  • New Festool Track Saw

    When Festool developed the TS 55 REQ, there was no need to go back to the drawing board. They already had the best track so the redesign was a matter of the New Festool Track Saw.

  • The Final Four Floor

    This year's NCAA final four will be playing on a portable wooden floor that was manufactured in Michigan, sanded and finished in Tennessee, and then temporarily installed in the Georgia Dome.

  • 50-year Stanley Tape Measure

    This tape probably won't last half a century on the jobsite but in a sense, it already has.

  • So You’ve Got a Dust Extracting Vacuum — Now What?

    Well you’d better have dust shrouds on your tools; otherwise, you won’t have anything to connect to. Here are a couple of shroud-equipped tools from DeWalt.

  • Blast From the Past: Cordless Nailers

    Here’s a blast from the past, a 1998 JLC review of two cordless finish nailers. One of these products is still going strong; the other died an early death.