Power tools

Power Tool Guide
Our power tool guide include both corded and cordless drills, drivers, hammer drills, saws, lights, sanders, multi-tools, and vacuums.

Man using a rivet gun on metal sheet in workshop.

10 Best Rivet Guns (2026)

David Smith

Riveting is one of the fastest, strongest ways to join sheet metal, panels, and hollow materials without welding, drilling deep ...

Man mowing lawn with a budget-friendly lawn mower in a suburban yard.

Best Cheap Lawn Mowers

David Smith

A cheap lawn mower doesn’t have to mean a bad one. The gap between a $150 mower and a $700 ...

Man using benchtop thickness planer in woodworking shop.

Best Benchtop Thickness Planer: 8 Tested Picks for Every Shop and Budget

David Smith

A thickness planer takes a rough-sawn board and mills it down to a consistent thickness across its whole length. If ...

Best bandsaw

7 Best Bandsaws for Woodworking (2026) Beginner to Pro

David Smith

The bandsaw is the most versatile stationary power tool in any woodworking shop. It resaws thick boards into bookmatched slabs, ...

Man using a dust extractor in a woodworking workshop.

12 Best Woodworking Dust Collection Tools (2026)

David Smith

Wood dust is not just a nuisance. Fine wood particles — particularly those generated by MDF, teak, walnut, western red ...

Person using a sandblaster for rust removal on metal surface.

Best Sandblasters (2026): 8 Picks for Rust Removal, Cabinet Blasting & Precision Engraving

David Smith

Most first sandblasting attempts fail for one of two reasons. The first: the wrong compressor – not the wrong sandblaster, ...

Man using a T post driver to install fence posts in a field.

Best T Post Drivers 2026

David Smith

Most “best T post driver” guides treat gas-powered units as the automatic upgrade over manual ones and stop there. That’s ...

Man using a log splitter in a wooded outdoor setting.

Best Log Splitters

David Smith

If you’ve started shopping for a log splitter, you’ve probably already run into the same wall every buyer hits: every ...

Man working with cordless drill and tools in a woodworking workshop.

Best Cordless Drill for Home Use

David Smith

The best cordless drill for home use is the most important single power tool purchase most households make — and ...

Man using a wood chipper in a park for yard cleanup.

12 Best Wood Chippers (2026)

David Smith

Every pruning season, every windstorm, and every overgrown hedge leaves behind the same problem: a pile of branches too big ...