Without sacrificing the perfect lines and proportions of Shaker furniture, we've devised a clever way to make this Shaker Trestle Table astoundingly rock-solid. Close the gap on your substandard joints with these 10 tricks that our editors picked up after decades in the shop. Simple to build, mobile and packed with storage, this German Work Box stores your tools and keeps the ones you're using at the ready. Handsaws: East vs. West - Japanese pullsaws have eclipsed the traditional Western handsaw in the American shop. In the sheds behind every house in one small Russian village, there are the wooden shavings of hundreds of Russian Nesting Dolls. Some tools are so useful they're worth far more than you paid for them. Here is our editor's list of the 12 BEST Tool Values. Bob Flexner explores Using Aerosol Sprays. In our first of seven installments on routers, we give you everything you need to know about Fixed-base Routers. Endeavoring to keep traditional chairmaking alive, Don Weber headed to Kentucky, becoming a Back-roads Bodger. Shop-made Squaring Sticks will confirm that an assembly is square. DeWalt's New Planer is reviewed in our Tool Test. Plus Endurance Test of Jet's JBM-5 Mortiser, The Magic Trammel Jig, Splines, Letters, Q & A and more!