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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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Woodworking How-To
Woodworking How-To
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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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Drilling Perpendicular Hole
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Illustration of calipers.
Crafty calipers reach around the lips
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Protecting tools on the cheap
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Sticking sanding paper on hand made tools.
Handy sanders use every bit of the grit
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Bitty gauges bring accuracy when cutting lap joints
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Get A Grip On These Sexy Handles
Get A Grip On These Sexy Handles
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How To Put Decorative Edges On Beads
How To Put Decorative Edges On Beads
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Routing the edge of a laminate flooring.
I need a new template—and step on it!
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Turntable for finishing.
Turn the tables on finishing
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Structure for storing drill-bit stop collars.
Secure stacking storage for stops
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Wet title saw with fence.
Tile saw becomes a model citizen
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Pegboard used for organizing drawer.
Holey solution for organized drawer storage
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A board between a vise.
Smart support stymies stock slip-through
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Container on side of drill to hold bits.
Onboard bit storage for easy access
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Tags attached to bandsaw blades.
Bag tags bring bandsaw blade benefits
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Cutting a dowel off.
Grind your teeth for no-stress flush cuts
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Using a peg board for a door on cabinet.
Redefining the term "hanging doors"
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Grounding PVC .
Sticky solution for static shock
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Swinging fence uses pins to hold it in place.
Swing-away solution for repeatable mitersaw cuts
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You'll Get Hooked on this Picture-Hanging Helper
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Using tools to cut a dowel.
Clipping dowels has gone to the dogs
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About of dozens rolls of tape place hanging on a fixture.
Branch out for easy-access tape storage
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