Wood Preparation

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Your benchtop planer takes a beating in normal use. Give it routine maintenance for glassy-smooth results board after board.

There's no such thing as the perfect board. But you can salvage a lot of "challenged" lumber using these tricks.

The WOOD team spends the day at Senior Design Editor Kevin Boyle's home, milling lumber from logs.

When you’re making multiples of an irregular-shaped workpiece, make quick work of it with templates.

Create miter joints on natural-edge slabs for the look of a continuous-grain drop-off.

I’m building some outdoor projects out of pressure-treated lumber and am wondering what finish, if any, I should use?

Help your projects avoid the snap, crackle, or pop caused by wood expanding and shrinking.

Follow these simple steps for top results every time.