Develop Your Shop Skills
Tips on how to salvage your own hardwood lumber.
Woodworkers have used bevels for centuries, and with good reason. This simple hand tool transfers and duplicates angles with dead-on precision. In this article, we'll show you how to set the bevel for angles taken off workpieces, full-sized plans, and written instructions.
Similar pipe clamps allow you to move easily keeping panels flat when glueing.
Follow our seven-step process for creating even reveals when hanging flush-mounted cabinet doors.
Our readers have shown us several ways of folding bandsaw blades. Here's how one of them, Werner Zinn of Orlando, Florida, described it.
Plagued by cracks in a piece of old furniture? Unless it's a museum piece, this simple repair might fill the bill.
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.
A great way to learn new woodworking skills is to watch a skilled craftsman at work.
Attaching hinges, driving threaded inserts and other installation tricks you can accomplish like a professional woodworker.
Faced with a seriously bowed workpiece? The tricks you learn here will straighten things out.
How do you section and cut your way from an irregular-shaped hunk of wood to stock you can actually use to make something with?
See how WOOD magazine reader, Joe Barbish creates a lip on the fronts of shelves to keep items from sliding off.
Not all lighting is the same. To match finishes perfectly, coordinate your workshop lights with the light where you'll place your project.
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.
Thinking about designing a chair but struggling with determining the dimensions and angles that will guarantee maximum comfort? Then let us introduce you to the guidelines established by the furniture industries.
Shop-made wood plugs are quick and fun to make and a great way for hiding screw heads. Follow along our process for the keys to this shop technique.
There's no such thing as being to safe in your workshop. Here are several ideas to make your shop safer.
As a woodworker, you may feel slightly lost venturing into the foreign territory of sheet-metal fabrication. Because you'll need to wander in there a little way when you build the cyclone dust collector, we've put together a few pointers to ease your trek.
If your second home is your shop, make your time in it even more enjoyable with these handy shop tips
Align drawer fronts and doors perfectly every time with ready-made spacers.
Shop space at a premium? Use this innovative approach to make the most of your limited work area.
When staining and finishing, nobody likes surprises. But snipe, chatter marks, and more can show up to mar your finest craftsmanship. Following these simple precautions, you can remove the goofs before they pose a problem.
