Just when you thought your multi-talented angle grinder couldn’t get any “multi-talented-er”, along comes the Grizzly Industrial angle grinder stand. This cool grinder accessory effectively turns your 4-1/2″ angle grinder into a mini metal-cutting chopsaw.

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Who needs a Rotozip, when your cordless drill will work just as well? Grizzly’s Beaver saw-drill can cut a starting hole with its tip and rip through material with its tooth-covered shank. Chuck this bit up into any drill with a 1/4″ chuck or larger, and you’re ready to cut drywall, paneling, and a slew of other materials

For drilling the initial pilot hole, the first 5/8″ of the Beaver saw-drill’s tip resembles a common, 135°, split-point drill bit. The saw portion — with 90 sharp, side-cutting teeth — makes up the next 1-3/4″. For faster cutting and longer life, both the drilling and cutting portions are precision-ground and coated with titanium nitride. Grizzly makes the entire bit from M2 high-speed steel.

Made in USA, the Beaver saw drill will only run you $4 at Amazon — a heck of a lot cheaper than a Rotozip, and one less power tool to lug around.

Beaver Saw-Drill [Grizzly]
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If you do any kind of machining or part-making, you need to check your accuracy on an absolutely flat surface, like this 24″x24″ black granite surface plate from Grizzly. For only $110 you get a grade B, non-magnetic, abrasive-resistant, corrosion- and warp-resistant, easy to clean surface with a +/- tolerance of .00015 inches. The plate weighs 234 lbs, so you’ll pay around $100 for shipping — but even for $210 it’s a sweet deal.

24″ x 24″ Granite Plate [Grizzly]
Street Pricing [Google Products]

Grizzly sells a jig that lets you turn blanks up to 24″ long in any drill press with a hole through the table. It’s a great low-cost alternative to a lathe — especially if you don’t do enough turning to justify the expense of a dedicated tool.

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If you haven’t checked out Grizzly Industrial Inc., I highly recommend it. They have a great selection of woodworking and metal working tools — even guitar-making kits! – at reasonable prices.  And now they’re offering a free gift with every purchase. You can even choose the gift you want; for purchases under $100, your choices include PVC electrician’s tape, 9/32″ cable clips, and “heavy duty” leather work gloves. Drop more cash, $100 - $250, and you could walk away with 10″ left cutting tin snips, a 14″ pipe wrench, or a 10-watt mini glue gun, to name a few options.  Really big spenders might bring home a 6″ bench grinder, a Smith & Wesson 6-piece gunsmithing screwdriver set, a 29-piece 1/2″ drive socket set, or even a piano stool.

Corporate Site [Grizzly Industrial]
Free Gifts [Grizzly Industrial]

A transfer punch fits snugly in an existing hole and precisely transfers the center of the hole to another surface when you strike it. You could just use a pencil to mark the hole; but then the holes don’t always align perfectly, which can be a huge PITA.  When your holes absolutely, positively have to line up, grab a transfer punch set.

Because they’re designed to precisely fit in the hole, these punches are straight along the entire length, not tapered like most punches. This set from Grizzly includes 28 4-7/8″ long punches for hole sizes ranging from 3/32″ to 1/2″ by increments of 1/64.”  The punches are slightly undersized so as not to bind in the holes.

You can get the Grizzly set or one like it for about $11 at many tool shops.

Transfer Punch Set [Grizzly]
Street Pricing [Google Products]
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There’s nothing glamorous about a wheel dresser, but if you own a tool with a grinding wheel, you need one. A wheel dresser removes the buildup of crud on the grinding surface, exposing new grains for better cutting performance. You can also use it to square the face of the wheel when it isn’t running true.

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Sure, you could cut hinge mortises with a router and a template, then finish ‘em off with a plain ‘ole chisel. But unless you’re a practiced woodworker, the results can look, well, less than perfect. What you really need is a corner chisel. Just place the corner chisel in the corner of the mortise, strike it with a hammer, and clean out the waste with a standard chisel – perfectly square corners every time.

And with Amazon selling the Grizzly corner chisel for $6, there is no excuse for sloppy looking mortises.

Corner Chisel [Manufacturer]
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As routers have become more powerful, woodworkers have begun using them to perform tasks they could previously accomplish only using a shaper with larger bits. But the cutters of larger bits must turn at slower speeds since they move faster with respect to the wood. Thankfully many new routers include a speed control, but if you’re trusty old one doesn’t, you might want to consider picking up a router speed control — like Grizzly’s G3555.

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I’ve only seen a few radial-head drill presses, but most of the ones I’ve seen rotate around an axis running directly through the center of the head.  This radial press from Grizzly caught my eye because it rotates around a lower axis.  In fact, you can also control the distance between the chuck and the axis.

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