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De Walt's Heavy-

Duty Coil Framing Nailer

wilh a 30" fence will cost you about $1,599; go for a 36" fence and it's $1,779, or add a couple of 36" and 52" extension tables to make it nearly a hybrid saw, and you're looking at $1,779 or $1,839 (plus the cost of a mobile or jobsite cart base).

Speed is another important quality in a tool — particularly when you get out of your shop to install some decking. DeWalt says their D51855 Heavy-Duty Coil Framing Nailer can fire several 3" nails per second, while still using 20 percent less air than similar nailers. It's priced at $329.

And then there's power:

Craftsman's NEXTEC™ 11890 12-volt Combo Set

you've likely heard, by now, of Lithium-Ion. Craftsman's tool line using this battery

technology — which allows more power in smaller, lighter weight packages — is called NEXTEC™, and the NEXTEC 11890 12-volt Combo Set includes a Drill, MultiSaw and Worklight. The drill's a 3/8" that weighs 2.2 pounds and delivers up to 195 inch-pounds of torque; the Worklight has 24 LED lights and pivots up to 135 degrees — and the MultiSaw gets its name from its split personality: dual positioning means you can use it either as a reciprocating saw or as a jig saw, delivering up to 2,000 strokes per minute either way. Together, the MultiSaw,

Worklight and Drill, along with two batteries and a carrying case, sell for $149.99.

Finally, the last quality of your tools we'll look at this time out is smoothness — and if there's any portion of your woodshop work where you really want to be a smooth operator, the drawer slides on your projects arc-probably it. In the case of Rockier Woodworking and Hardware's TopSlides", the company conducted blind tests of the product, where the TopSlides consistently got picked as the smoothest, quietest option. It's truly an

open and shut product, too: the number of "open/close cycle" certifications for these slides ranges from 50,000 to 80,000. They come in a variety of extensions and closing styles, with some of the heavy-duty slides rated for loads up to 500 pounds. The TopSlides prices vary from $7.19 for a 14", 35-lb.-rated, center-mounted 3/4-exten-sion to $185.39 for a pair of 36", 500-lb. rated full-extension slides. Rockler's proud enough of these slides to guarantee a free, no-questions replacement of any TopSlides that fail to satisfy.

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