Wood Preparation
Learn how to select, mill, and size lumber for project parts. Find out how to optimize lumber for maximum yield and the best appearance for your projects.
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.
WOOD magazine, Issue 266 shows you how to make a Demilune Table.
Whether bent on harvesting your own wood with a chainsaw or just trimming branches, you must play it safe. And there’s more to it than the right saw and protective clothing.
When you’re making multiples of an irregular-shaped workpiece, make quick work of it with templates.
With these two jigs, you can rip tapers on anything from a footstool leg to a tall bedpost.
I like to slice logs at an angle and use these slabs for fretwork. What do I have to do to keep the bark from drying, shrinking, and falling off the slab?
I wanted a solid wood top for a small pub table. I used narrow oak boards that measured 8 percent moisture content. I stained it with water-based stain, and the oak and plywood top cupped.
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