Outfitting Your Woodworking Shop
Garages provide plenty of space to display collectibles from ball caps to original signs and pricey gas pumps. We rounded up photos of a few examples.
If you have basic DIY skills and a few hand tools, you can save time and a wad of cash by purchasing ready-to-assemble cabinets for your garage.
When slatwall was introduced 40 years ago, it provided retailers the flexibility to quickly change their wall displays. Homeowners can now enjoy that benefit, too.
What tools does a beginning woodworker need, and how should he or she acquire them? From a poll of WOODmagazine staff members, we assembled a basic tool kit.
Shop for garage flooring and you'll find a full range of floor products described as epoxy.
See the differences with these surefire workshop lighting strategies. (PDF download)
Self-adhesive vinyl flooring tile for garages has been available for only a couple of years, but it's already gaining converts.
In the garage, wall space equals storage space. Check out these creative systems for organizing your walls.
See if your shop has the power it needs for the woodworking you want to do.
Many garage renovations begin with a primary goal to improve the bare concrete floor. Fortunately, there are several solutions available in a wide price range.
For decades, slatwall systems have been darlings of retailers for their showrooms and shops. Today, the same product concept takes its place in home shops across the USA.
Want to handle materials more easily? For these and many other problems, the solution just might be as simple as putting something on wheels.
Thinking about adding an extension to a tablesaw or other machine in your shop? If so, let us show you how to align it to perfection.
Card scrapers clean up a workpiece like no other tool, leaving a scratch-free, glassy-smooth surface ready for finishing.
Need help planning a new workshop? Or maybe you've got the urge to reorganize the one you have now. Either way, you've come to the right place.
Many homeowners look at the garage as the largest room of their house and ask:
See how reader George Roskopf of Pewaukee, Wis., used a pipe clamp to create an economical vise for his workbench.
It''s often the simple fixes that make a shop more enjoyable to work in. Here are some reader submitted tips for you to put to use.
Ready to set up a shop of your own? We mapped out three typical small-space shops, then came up with surefire strategies to beat the space squeeze.
Shopping for power-carving bits, you learn one thing quickly: They come in astonishing variety.
These three quick mounting methods for your small tools and accessories free up space on your workbench
Make your benchtop do double duty with this simple mounting--board system.
What was that jig for? With this easy system, you'll remember what project it's from and how it works.
Solutions to creating sacrificial inserts that cover both cutting areas of the saw.
Garage renovations often begin with the goal of improving the appearance of a blah concrete floor. Lucky for you, good products abound at price points to fit most budgets.
If your second home is your shop, make your time in it even more enjoyable with these handy shop tips.
Step by step demonstration on how to decorate your garage floor with epoxy.
As a frugal woodworker looking for ways to put pieces of scrap material to work, I designed this adjustable work support to provide a helping hand when working with long material at my mitersaw or drill press.
Few shop items hold as much raw potential as your workbench. Here's how to tap into its full usefulness with a trio of improvements.
Europeans have some pretty good ideas for moving equipment, too. Phil Bumbalough snagged this tow-bar idea after checking out how hefty Italian-made multi-tools easily roll cross shop floors. Now, Phil uses one tow bar to move six tools in his Illinois shop.
Drywall is a thing of the past for shop walls. Learn several more upgrades that take your shop from drab to dramatic.
Ready-to-assemble components provide a great way to stretch your budget and get that workbench and slatwall you've always dreamed about.
Don't know a burl from a bow, a jig from a collet? Here's a glossary of some woodworking terms guaranteed to help you sound like a pro.
