If you have a fractured filter, well, it cannot filter any longer. It lets big particles into the system and increases draw on the motors.

We received a question about milling down curved whiskey barrel staves into 3/8-inch thick pieces. It seems this Indiana shop has gotten a lot of requests for this kind of product, for flooring. The shop is looking for equipment or a process that would allow them to mill these pieces so they can be used for flooring.  

From staining oak to woodworking aprons to miter joints, Nick Offerman fields real questions from Twitter followers and answers them in his signature Offerman style.

After discussing the possible causes of the orange peel it became obvious that he needed to add lacquer thinner to the mix.

Ben at display fixture manufacturer Xylem Design, shows Brad Cairns a baffle he set up to channel flying sawdust from next to the CNC machine. It's an example of innovative ideas developed under Lean management.

We were looking to improve CNC bed cleaning after sheet processing, and it was a chore to vacuum the bed with a shop vac after removing the processed pieces from the bed to ready it for the next sheet.

I am always being asked about tools and woodworking products. Around this time of year, a lot of those questions turn into: 'what would make a good gift?'

I wear two hats: woodshop worker and public face. If I could find a way to schedule different days for all my meetings and all the days I am banging, cutting, and sanding it would be easy. More often than not I have to split my days and showing up to a luxury high-rise caked in sawdust is not an option. Enter Milwaukee's stylish gear.

Sometimes even TV stars have good ideas. Jonathon and Drew Scott, co-stars of HGTV’s ‘Property Brothers’ home renovating fixer-upper reality show, shared their top five favorite gadgets - no hammers, saws or drills involved.

For the woodworker, it's going to be tools, lumber and veneer. And more tools. Developing the 2015 shopping list for someone who works with wood all day, the editors at Woodworking Network tried to think out of the dovetail box. Besides exotic hardwood that can inspire a project, or a specialized tool or jig that's so cool it doesn't matter if its useful, we added some good works suggestions this time around: it's better to give than to receive.