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Every year, the Best New Tools article is the one that everyone on the staff looks forward to. Each editor picks his or her favorite tools introduced during the calendar year and makes a list that's passed around.

Then we have to defend our recommendations to the other staff members. Frustrations rise, tempers flare and then (inevitably) a fistfight breaks out. Luckily we're all pretty fairly matched so you still get a balanced presentation of our favorite tools.

This year was no exception. And while there are other tools and machinery that were in hot contention that didn't make the cut (someone who shall go unnamed started biting) we're proud of this year's list.

There's something for everyone, including machinery from Grizzly and Jet, some fine precision power hand tools from Bosch, some value-added tooling from Infinity and some excellent hand tools from Lee Valley/Veritas, Lie-Nielsen and a French company new to our pages - Auriou.

We also call out a couple hot items that will improve the tools you already own, including a slick new router lift from Jointech and a simple splitter for your table saw from Micro Jig.

And each year there are a number of tools that are just too new

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to fully evaluate but that seem likely to prove worthy of recognition next year. So we give you a sneak peak of some of these upcoming developments at the end of the article.

We hope you approve of this year's selection and I know a couple editors that will be training all year to get ready for next year's Best New Tools selections.

by the Popular Woodworking Staff

Comments or questions? Contact David Thiel at 513-531-2690 ext. 1255 or david.thiel@fwpubs.com.

THE WINNERS

AURIOU BOSCH GRIZZLY INFINITY

JET JOINTECH LEE VALLEY LIE-NIELSEN MICRO JIG VERITAS

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