Magnetic spacers are a great tool to have available for woodworking and DIY.

After making laminated dowels with different patterns, I was quite interested to see how they would look in a chopping/cutting board. The results were better than I expected!

I had an idea to make laminated dowels with contrasting wood colours and patterns. They turned out great! I've never seen this done before in woodworking, so hopefully this will be useful to others.

It takes time and practice to consistently cut straight by hand. A magnetic saw guide can assist with cutting straight every time. They are also good to have available for those cuts you can't afford to mess up, such as dovetail shoulders.

My wood storage cart was filling up with spacers cut to custom sizes and I decided there must be a better spacer solution. Especially since I would sometimes sacrifice perfectly good timber to cut a spacer to a specific size.

Perfect circles can be cut on the router table using a simple circle jig. In this post I will discuss the circle jig and how it works in two different modes of operation.