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.
Learn how to make a mitered joint, just one of the nine essential joints you should consider for your project. WOOD magazine's Craig Ruegsegger
Learn how to make and install overlay cabinet doors and drawers, including choosing hardware and installing it.
I like the brush-mark-free results achieved using rollers to apply finishes.
When needing to take off just a little material from a piece of trim that has a mitered or 90° edge, use this simple jig, modeled after a Speed Square.
Picture frames benefit greatly from reinforcement at the mitered corners.
Most bandsaw tables provide little support for long workpieces.
After 20 years of daily use, the drawers in our bedroom chest began to creep forward when another drawer was closed, due to trapped air trying to escape.
After installing tongue-and-groove hardwood flooring in two rooms I was left with a lot of scraps that came in handy for making a renewable, zero-clearance, router-table fence system.
Tip of the Day
Proportional scale makes changing dimensions easy
Changing the size of a project leads to cumbersome math at times. Say you're enlarging a piece... read more