MACHINERY is remaking all our home workshops. More than anything else, the introduction of compact, efficient, and reasonably priced woodworking machines has helped to popularize the hobby of making things with tools. Why? Because machines lend new zest to the work, they take away the drudgery, and they make it possible for the beginner as well as the trained craftsman to turn out satisfactory projects.

It is the purpose of this chapter to show the amateur how to make beautiful, useful, and substantial pieces of furniture almost entirely with these motorized home workshops, and do it more easily and accurately than by hand.