Tool Guide 2025

In this annual publication, we have gathered the best tool reviews and tool-related articles our editors have worked on over the past year, along with some favorites from other issues. In addition to head-to-head tool reviews, we offer a large number of individual reviews as part of our New to Market sections. And you not only get the benefit of tool reviews, but you also can read some enlightening articles on choosing, using, and maintaining tools. For example, in this issue, builder Gary Striegler shows how to dial in a job-site table saw, and turner Andrew Finnigan puts two classes of lathes to a stringent series of tests in order to help you decide which one is right for you.

We hope you enjoy the content provided here, confident in the knowledge that with better tools, you will do better work.