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Best The Winners: • Abranet • Apollo • Bosch • Festool • FullPro • Freud • Gramercy • Grizzly • Jet • Lamello • Lie-Nielsen • Milwaukee • Steel City • Veritas • Work Sharp 2007 New tools After eight years of writing the Best New Tools column, you’d think that we’d be jaded and bored with the tool industry. (“Oh look, yawn, another new cordless drill with a bubble level.”) But every year, all the editors for this magazine sit down with our lists of tools we like, and we are amazed at how many innovative and cool new tools are released every single year. For a craft that is as old as civilization itself, it’s a testament to ingenuity that we can continue to find new and better ways to manipulate wood to our liking. So what do we look for in a tool that makes it a “Best New Tool?” Usu- ally the winners are the tools that make us sit up in our chairs when we first hear about them. They might be tools that have never existed before, such as the Festool Domino – a shoo-in on this year’s list. They might be tools that are being revived and improved after near-extinction, such as the Veritas Small Plow Plane or Gramercy Dovetail Saw. They might be tools that are simply the “Best in the Category,” such as the Milwaukee two-base router kit or the Apollo HVLP system. They can be tools that make a bold and important statement, such as the riving knife on the Bosch 4100 table saw or the Grizzly jointer/planer – it took guts to bring those European features to the North American market. And sometimes, a Best New Tool is something that you never ever would have thought of, and is so interesting that you just cannot stop talking about it. I am talking, of course, about the Steel City tools with granite tops and fences. Maybe next year we’ll get bored with this annual award – but I wouldn’t count on it.  — Christopher Schwarz, editor

The two most important parts of a table saw are its rip fence and its motor. These two components are responsible for making the table saw what it is today: An awesome ripping and joint-cutting machine. This year we tested hybrid table saws and brought in examples of all the major brands; we had Contributing Editor Troy Sexton go over the saws in detail. Now Troy is hard to impress. He has nice professional machines and knows his stuff. So when Troy freaked out about the Jet model, we knew that something was up. After we started using the Jet’s rip fence, we knew exactly what Troy was talking about. The fence slides over the tabletop like it’s an air hockey game. You actually have to be careful to make sure the fence doesn’t hit the blade sometimes. Add to that the fact that you can adjust the rip fence in all three axes and add jigs to the aluminum faces via T-slots, you might understand why it garnered an “Editor’s Choice” award and now also earns a “Best New Tool” award. So how did the Jet do when it came to raw power? Very well. If you’re in the market for a hybrid table saw, you’d be hard-pressed to find anything better, especially for the price (about $750). Jet ■ 800-274-6848 or jettools.com