Editing Power tool (section)

==Classification==
[[File:A shop under renovation, with debris of construction materials all around, Tai Po, Hong Kong.jpg|thumb|upright|A shop under renovation (power tools can be seen on the left of the photo).]]
Power tools are classified as either stationary or portable, where portable means hand-held. Portable power tools have obvious advantages in mobility. Stationary power tools, however, often have advantages in speed and precision. A typical table saw, for instance, not only cuts faster than a regular hand saw, but the cuts are smoother, straighter, and more square than what is normally achievable with a hand-held power saw. Some stationary power tools can produce objects that cannot be made in any other way. [[Lathe]]s, for example, produce truly round objects.

Stationary power tools for [[metalworking]] are usually called [[machine tool]]s. The term ''machine tool'' is not usually applied to stationary power tools for [[woodworking]], although such usage is occasionally heard, and in some cases, such as [[Drill#Drill press|drill presses]] and [[bench grinder]]s, exactly the same tool is used for both woodworking and metalworking.