Powermatic will introduce its new eight-inch Parallelogram Jointer (PJ882) at the International Woodworking Fair in Atlanta this month. In addition to its unique design, it comes loaded with standard features including an extra long 82" bed. A heavy-duty tool for cabinet shops, professional woodworkers and home woodworkers, the jointer weighs in at an impressive 616 pounds. The PJ882 also offers an innovative fence design that allows the user to turn a hand wheel that tilts the fence in and out with stops at plus or minus 45 degrees and 90 degrees for exceptional control and accuracy.

An important safety feature of the PJ882 is its one-eighth-inch depth-of-cut limiter control that provides for quick adjustments and sets the maximum depth-of-cut. A knob disables this feature, providing added versatility to the professional user. The parallelogram jointer features Powermatic's controlled chip three-knife cutterhead with a speed of 7,000 RPMs to ensure safe, smooth cuts. The jointer is available in a single phase, two horsepower design or powerful three horsepower, three phase model for an MSRP of $1,849.

For more information, visit Powermatic online (www.wmhtoolgroup.com)

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American Furniture Design publishes a monthly newsletter (Shavings & Sawdust) with a host of great information for woodworkers of all persuasions. Their July Plan of the Month was the Lutyen's Garden Bench (shown), which was designed over 100 years ago by a British architect. It is assembled with mortise and tenon joinery and seats three.
42" high, 22" wide, 80" long.

For more info or to subscribe to their newsletter, visit AFD online.
(www.americanfurnituredsgn.com)

Arrow Tooling's newest online catalog features their very affordable line of solid carbide router bits called PDQ Micro-Grain. The catalog also includes a huge array of carbide-tipped router bits, drills and saw blades, countersinks, CNC tooling and accessories, diamond sharpening wheels and woodworking tools, molder knives and more. It takes a few minutes to download the PDF format catalog, but it's worth the wait.

For more info, visit them online (www.arrowtooling.com), or call 888-590-8665.

The Connecticut Valley School Of Woodworking in Manchester will host their third annual open house on Saturday, September 18, from 9am to 3pm. Check out antique tools for sale, Japanese woodworking tools, representatives from Lie-Nielsen, Shepard hand planes, Shapton stones and more. Join Nick Schade as he demonstrates the finer points of building his great kayaks. They will have lathes set up and members of the Central Connecticut Woodturners will be demonstrating all day.

Photo from last year's open house, courtesy of Bob VanDyke, CVSW