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Make Cabinets the Easy Way
Make Cabinets the Easy Way
Big? Yes. Difficult? Nah. With only basic woodworking skills, a tablesaw, and a few simple tools, you can make custom cabinets for your home or shop.
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Three great finishes (that aren't polyurethane)
Three great finishes (that aren't polyurethane)
Consider one of these three other clear finishes for your next project. You'll be glad you did.
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How to Work With Natural-Edge Slabs
How to Work With Natural-Edge Slabs
Let Mother Nature be your co-designer as you build dazzling projects with wavy edges, bristly burrs, bark inclusions, and other “flaws” that give wood a look of unrefined beauty.
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Built-ins That Blend In
Built-ins That Blend In
We shadowed two experienced makers and installers of custom cabinetry to bring you simple tips and tricks that will keep your built-in projects (and your sanity) “on the bubble.”
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Free Plan: Ready-to-serve Wine Cabinet
Free Plan: Ready-to-serve Wine Cabinet
Keep your favorite wines, stemware, and serving accessories handy in this stylish unit.
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Which hand planes should a power-tool woodworker buy first?
Which hand planes should a power-tool woodworker buy first?
If you had to recommend three, which hand planes should I start with?
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Installing Quadrant Hinges
Installing Quadrant Hinges
Rout the recesses right to hold a lid upright. Here’s how.
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Unfinished garage becomes a woodworking haven
Unfinished garage becomes a woodworking haven
Blessed with an eye for potential, David Willett looked at his dark, unfinished 11⁄2-car garage built in 1956 and saw the bones of a workshop.
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In this section you'll find free woodworking plans and other downloadable plans for furniture, gifts & decorations, outdoor projects, and toys & kids furniture. You'll also find plans for holiday projects, woodturning, and workshop jigs & fixtures.
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Free Keepsake Box Woodworking Plan
Beautiful wood, an elegant design, and your choice of corner joinery.
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Free Rippling Ribbon Clock Woodworking Plan
Build this whimsical eye-pleaser from leftover pieces of veneer.
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Free Built-in Bookcase and Cabinet Plan
Free Built-in Bookcase/Cabinet Woodworking Plan
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Tabletop Shuffleboard Woodworking Plan
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Reader devises a different way to slice a thin-strip ripping jig
I read with great interest your article on "3 must-have tablesaw jigs" (issue 151, page 80), and especially liked the thin-strip ripping jig.
Picture of jewelry box and an insert showing the lid removed in interior of box.
Free Plan: Keepsake Box
Large picture frame with four smaller picture frames inserted in it.
Free Plan: Picture-perfect Multi-frame
Wooden box container with rod handle that can hold 6 beers or other items.
Free Plan: Beer Caddy/Hardware Tote
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Cantilevered Sofa Server Woodworking Plan
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Workbench and Cabinet Combo Woodworking Plan
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Two-for-one Tabletop Hockey Woodworking Plan
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Vertical Garden Woodworking Plan
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Jig on bandsaw
Free Bandsaw Circle Jig Woodworking Plan
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Crosscut sled on tablesaw
Free Tablesaw Crosscut Sled Plan
Limbert-style Rocking Chair
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Raised Dog Dishes Woodworking Plan
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Potting Shed Woodworking Plan
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Beefy and Beautiful Bench Woodworking Plan
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Tailored Tool Tower Woodworking Plan
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Hanging Display Cabinet Woodworking Plan
Building The Potting Shed
Building The Potting Shed
Build your best Crosscut Shed Downloadable Plan Thumbnail
Build Your Best Crosscut Shed
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Bench-tool System Woodworking Plan
Hug-the-wall Lumber Storage Downloadable Plan Thumbnail
Hug-the-wall Lumber Storage
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Mobile Tool Cabinet Woodworking Plan
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Bench-mounted Router Table Woodworking Plan
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Roll-Around Tool Base: Roll-Around Tool Base Woodworking Plan
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Pocket-size gauge for setting pocket-hole bits
Bandsaw Table System Downloadable Plan Thumbnail
Bandsaw Table System
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Playtime building blocks Woodworking Plan
Time-honored Bracket Clock Downloadable Plan Thumbnail
Time-honored Bracket Clock
Colorful building blocks
Free Playtime Building Blocks Woodworking Plan
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Tapered Triplet Bud Vase Woodworking Plan
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Multi-grain Table Woodworking Plan
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Big-Time Wall Clock Woodworking Plan
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Limbert-style Coffee Table Woodworking Plan
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Limbert-style End Table Woodworking Plan
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Elegant Accent Table Woodworking Plan
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