Project Assembly
Find out how to get the best results when gluing and assembling your project. These tips will get you through tricky clamp-ups, keep your project square and level, and help you account for wood movement.
Most of us apply linear thinking to project building: Cut parts to size, fasten them together, and then apply finish.
Gluing up and clamping a project proves just as critical as the machining and finishing stages, so take the time to get it right.
Before building projects with truly square corners you're proud of, you need the proper tools and setups.
WOOD magazine, Issue 266 shows you how to make a Demilune Table.
After turning all your rails, legs and spindles you have a beautiful shaker bench. Instead of
These mounting methods will keep your tables from popping their tops.
A river runs through this stunning table made with natural-edge slabs and a pour of epoxy resin.
Cut 12 equal bevels the length of a cylinder with a simple tablesaw jig. This technique was used in WOOD issue 259 (March 2019) to bevel salt and pepper shakers.
I recently built a freestanding cabinet with carefully fitted doors and a base with legs. When I moved it from my shop to my living rooms, the doors bound. What’s going on?
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