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Stanley Tools are continuing to add to their large and impressive FatMax range which now contains well over 200 woodworking, storage and home improvement products.

They’re all designed to be tough and long lasting, which you’d expect from a company with the heritage of Stanley Tools who have over a century of woodwork tool making behind them.

There are rugged tool bags, axes, hammers, chisels, storage boxes, wrecking bars (called a Fubar!), tapes… you name it. Great for woodworkers and with a much wider appeal too.

The best stockists we’ve managed to find are actually Amazon who carry pretty much the full range at the usual excellent prices. Click here for details.

Leigh have just announced their new Super Dovetail Jig and when you look at the spec you can see why they called it Super.

It’s available in 3 sizes: 12-inch, 18-inch and 24-inch, so there’s bound to be one that suits your pocket and the dovetail job you need to do.

This dovetail jig is quality piece of kit as you’d expect from the Leigh and it has a number of innovations including a new and patent pending router support and dust extraction system to pull away the vast majority of the dust that these type of jigs normally create.

You need to visit the Woodcraft site to read the full spec, but to give you a flavor this jig will produce variable through and half-blind dovetails and cut your pin and tail boards in the same pass. Infinite variability also guarantees you get half pins at either end of your board whatever layout you’re using.

Woodcraft currently have special deals on the new Leigh Super Dovetail Jig and Accessory Kits and you can save anything from $25.99 to $49.99 depending which jig you choose.

I’ve got some new furniture to build for our house renovation and I’m going to have no trouble convincing my wife that I need one of these to do it with!

Full details here: Woodcraft / Leight Super Dovetail Jig Offers.

Grizzly have just announced this new 10-inch wet grinder.

Made in Germany, the Model T10010 has a strong 1/4 hp motor running at 90 RPM. This relatively slow speed, combined with the water bath, keeps your tools cool while sharpening and so won’t take the temper out of them.

The full kit includes a universal jig, an angle guide and polishing/honing paste. Wheels supplied are the 10-inch 220 Grit aluminum oxide grinding wheel for sharpening and an 8-inch leather stropping wheel for polishing/honing.

For more information call 1-800-523-4777 or visit www.grizzly.com.

No nothing to do with King Arthur. This one’s a scroll saw, the EX-30 from General.

As you might have guessed, the EX-30 refers to the enormous 30″ capacity which should keep the most demanding scroller happy!

The accurate, laser-cut steel chassis is actually 14 x 32.5 inches and the motor is variable from 400 to 1550 strokes per minute to handle virtually any material you can think of.

Of course it’s the tilting head which is the outstanding feature of the Excalibur. Tilting the blade rather than the work table allows much greater control and is a feature of the EX-30 and it’s smaller brother the EX-21.

As you might expect with a quality manufacturer like General, there are also front-mounted controls for ease of use, fast blade changing, a locator pin for quick setting of common angles, blade tube storage holder and an upper-arm hold-up which is adjustable to make fretwork easier.

Accessories include a foot switch and robust adjustable stand.

For full details and pricing visit General.ca

Woodcraft stock the smaller but equally good EX-21 and may also have the EX-30. Probably best to visit the site where you can send them an email.