
Woodworking How-To
Find the tips, tricks, and techniques for your woodworking shop from wood preparation to finished cabinetry with doors and drawers. You’ll also learn about joinery, measuring, and wood finishes.
Even in a shop full of power tools, preparing stock using hand tools proves a valuable skill.
While using a hand plane to smooth a wide panel, I needed a long bench stop to keep the workpiece from moving.
I needed a space-efficient storage solution for all my clamps. I found many plans for roll-around carts but couldn’t justify the loss of usable floor space.
When you want a graceful curved-edge tabletop, frame, or opening with a little more flare than a sta
The devil is in the details and you've done a masterful job to this point.
There are a lot of ways to bend wood and kerf bending is one of them.

I was recently working on a project that required a centered hole in one end of a 11⁄4
" dowel. Lacking a tool to help me find the center, I resorted to pencil and paper.

Sometimes you need a fine adjustment to the overall width of a stacked dado blade.
Tip of the Day
Sanding-disc server for woodturners

As a woodturner, I use a variety of 2" hook-and-loop abrasive discs for my sanding tool. However,... read more