Saicos Coating Systems
Shop News: Saicos Coating Systems products are eco-friendly, safe for humans and pets while offering a simple and economic solution to beautiful wood finishing.
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Shop News: Saicos Coating Systems products are eco-friendly, safe for humans and pets while offering a simple and economic solution to beautiful wood finishing.
Shop News: Enjoy small pieces of woods from around the world, shipped right to your door.
Know Your Tools: Files and rasps allow you to carefully remove small amounts of material with a freeform approach, mainly on concave and convex edges. These shaping tools help create and fair gentle curves, fine-tune edges and reduce the amount of sanding needed on some small, rough, 3D surfaces.
Top Ten: We all strive to make working wood as safe as possible, but we can never truly make it safe. All machines and tools should be respected, but be extra careful around these ten.
Canadian Quotes: Bruce Stuart on canoeing, losing track of time and the importance of straight grain wood.
Shop News: The Fuji Spray Mini-Mite 3 PLATINUM T-70 is the perfect system with enough power and portability for your fine-finishing projects.
Furniture Project: Offering much needed bedroom storage space, and a place to sit for a moment, this blanket box design is fun to build, and very customizable to your décor.
Home Improvement: With a little planning and research someone with reasonable carpentry skills should be able to remove a load bearing wall and replace it with a beam. Regardless of the size of opening you want, the process is very similar.
Weekend Project: A simple station will go a long way in keeping your family's collection of smart phones organized.
Hobby Project: If you're a fly fisherman and a woodworker, there's no better project than a fly-tying chest. With lots of storage for smaller items it will make your fly-tying easier. And mix it up with some colourful woods for drawer fronts, and you have yourself a trophy project.
Shop News: Pen turners have long been looking for a kit to make their own customized calligraphy pens.
Home Project: An ultimate woodworker’s challenge - to make a Windsor chair by hand using traditional chairmaking techniques.
Finishing Touch: Ease of application, lack of film build-up, a beautiful satin sheen, and no-fuss repair make these finishes ideal for projects that won't be subject to a lot of heavy daily use.
2019 Readers' Choice Awards: Woodworkers and DIYers from across Canada have chosen the best tools of 2019.