Project Plans
Tired of finding your band clamps all balled up in a drawer, devise these ultra-simple holders to keep them in order.
Add an auxiliary top to your bandsaw; then add this shop-built fence for amazing accuracy.
This resawing guide lets you correct for blade drift, and you can build it from parts you probably have lying around your shop.
Looking for a fast, inexpensive way to improve the air quliaty in your basement shop? Then we think you'll like this idea.
Here's a quick-fix jig that will come in handy the next time you need to bore a vertical hole in the end of a long workpiece.
This overhead rack easily holds several dozen small clamps of any type. You can hang your longer bar clamps and pipe clamps directly on the bench itself for convenient, easy access.
Can't find your pushpads and other jointer accessories when you need them? Keep them close at hand with this shop-built attachment.
See how WOOD magazine reader Joe Godfrey of Forest City, North Carolina, created a super simple dust-collection bag for his mitersaw.
Doweling can turn dicey when the dowels don't quite measure up to their stated diameter-or the hole you drill is too shallow or too deep. The solution? Build our 4-in-1 dowel gauge.
Mounting drawer pulls has never been easier than with this handy shop helper.
To help clamping go smoothly when edge-joining boards, we devised an edge-gluing fixture that directs clamping pressure to the center of the workpieces.
Mount it to the bed of your lathe or hang it from a wall; either way it keeps your lathe tools organized and close at hand.
What do you do when the length of the cut extends beyond the face of the miter gauge?
To give his workstation's jaws added capacity, reader Dennis Peterson of Lewiston, Idaho, made a set of four clamp extensions. Use our plans of his idea to make your own.
Rather than store drywall screws in their flimsy plastic packages, clunky coffee cans, or breakable jars, I designed this storage/dispenser system.
Support workpieces with this simple T-shaped fixture that attaches to your portable clamping workstation.
Create professional-looking, perfectly flush, banded plywood panels with our flush-trim fence. Build it with our plan, clamp it to your router table, and you'll be off to better craftsmanship!
Dadoed end caps make the perfect supports for routing the solid-wood edging on several plywood shelves all at the same time.
Don't let your glue bottles get scattered around your shop. Store them in this easy-to-make mobile home for easy transport.
