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I found a nifty site that can help you find available coupons for your favorite woodworking sites.  If you are planning on making a purchase in the near future, its always great to have a coupon to save a little money.

The name of the site is called Rateitall.com and its not just limited to woodworking sites, it carries coupons for all sites of sites that have them available.  Below is a picture of the search return that received when I put in the term “woodworking”  if the link does not bring up the same result, just add woodworking into the search box for a current list.    Each site is listed and you can follow the link right to the page.  When you click the site it brings up the current items that is available and the percentage of people that were successful using the coupon code.

Rate it All

I found this last night and thought  Iwould share it will all of you.  Its pretty much self explanitory. 

There are some really cool stuff going on out there and I like roaming around finding the good stuff and posting it here.  I will try to give you all the information as organized as possible.

Router Table Depot

• Buy Select router tables and get a 35 Piece router bit set  for FREE, coupon code is “35forme” 
• $10 off the Super Bench top router table, coupon code “tenbucks”
• $10 off the RTD 1200 Mini Cabinet router table coupon code “tenbucks”
• $20 off Router Table saw extensions  coupon code “twentybucks”

Sears

• All Lawn and Garden tools on sale

CPO DeWalt

• Up to $50 off cordless drill combo kits..CPO DeWalt

Northern Tools

• 15 % off all “northern tool brand’ tools

Rockler

• $11.99 Bench Cookie Pack
• Big Discounts in the Outlet section
• The newest innovations in dust collection.

Tool King

• DeWalt reconditioned D26451KR Orbital Sander $34
• Get 10% off 3 or 4 router bits
• Get  20% off 5 or more router bits
• Bosch 1617 PK Router Combo kit $147.55 (whoa)

I like looking at new and tidy offerings. I found this little gizmo from the folks at Rockler. It shows some very interesting items without having to go through the whole site. Of notable intersests were the outlet section. After the beating my wallet took over christmas, saving money is always a welcome sign. I also liked the kitchen pull out shelf kit in the top sellers section. I was thinking about adding that feature to a cabinet in the kitchen for a better garbage set up. Currently we use a bucket with trash bags and its not working very well. I did price some slide out kits at Lowes, but all you get is the hardware and no real directions on how to make the rest of the items you need.

I have always said that woodworking has really evolved.  In my humble opinion there has always been some “old school” woodworkers and there are “new schoolers” too.  I have some relatives that build kind of the old school standards, like paper towel holders and scounces.  This bores me to death to be quite honest.  I say if your going to be in the shop, make something that works for you.

This months deal is from Rockler, and its pretty cool because its useful.  Yeah I know there is still snow on the ground in most places, but hey that is when you get some good shop time.  A nice barbeque set really is very helpful when you are in the battle of the coals and raw meat.  This one I really like since it gives you a lot of the tools you really need and you get to brag about making the handles and take all the credit.  Having the ability to download the plan for free is a great thing too.  I can easily drop $50 on a decent set of barbeque tools so the $15 for the hardware is pretty slick.

Go directly to this Deal of the day here.

I just stumbled on a new bench top router table that is being offered at RTD. After looking at it for a few minutes I decided to buy it and do a review on it. After a few more minutes of staring at it, I noticed a few things about the table that is interesting. It resembles another brand table (kreg) in different colors. I will include the specs for the table so that you can look it over. The best part is the price, its well priced under $50 cheaper and it ships for $10. It may be a holiday thing or maybe an introduction price. I will be posting a video review of the table shortly. I really like the fence, it has the built in ability to do some jointing. Granted it is not a jointer, but being able to take off even 1/16th would help me with some of my projects.

Table Top

• 23 ¾” x 15 ¾” x 1”
• Laminated both sides
• Miter track, ¾” inside diameter (std) accepts all 3^rd party accessories
• Slotted for fence operation
• Finished edge

Insert

• 12” x 9” x 3/8”
• Acrylic
• Set Screws Levelers included in insert
• Starter Pin
• 3 snap out rings 4” , 2 5/8”, 1 ¼” (accepts Porter Cable Style Bushings and templates)
• Not pre drilled for routers, this is very easy and you use your router base plate for a template, see directions link below.

Fence

• 23 ¾” x 3 ½” Aluminum Core
• T-track built into front face and top of fence for versatile attachements of accessories such as featherboards
• Includes stop block
• Extensions are 12”x 2 ¾” x ¾”
• Router bit safety cover
• Unique offset bars included for jointing capabilities
• Through table adjustment
• Dust port

Stand

• High quality Steel
• Cambered out for extra stability
• Predrilled to accept a shelf of your design.
• Adjustable rubber feet

You can find this Bench Top router table here.