Fasteners and Hardware
Discover how to choose and install fasteners and hardware to complete your woodworking project. Find out details about screws, nails, hinges, drawer slides, and other hardware.
Today's hardware universe offers a nearly limitless variety of cabinet-door hinges.
Design editor John Olson demonstrates a method for modifying low-cost, home-center hinges to look like hand-forged, high-dollar antiques.
Installing a long piano hinge generally frustrates me. Got any suggestions?
I didn’t angle my air-powered brad nailer right, and the fastener blew out the side of my project. Can I pull the brad through, or do you have a better idea?
Is there a formula to determine which caster to use on concrete floors and on carpets?
I’m building a cabinet for under my workbench, and would like the drawers to be accessible from both sides. Do they make a drawer slide that can go both directions?
I have a hard time countersinking the mounting screws when using aluminum T-tracks in jigs.
The legs of my picnic table take a lot of abuse when someone moves it across the patio. What could I do to protect the legs?
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I loved the Top Shop Tip by Warren Perkins in WOOD® magazine issue 187 (November 2008) where he... read more