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Feature-Filled Router Table Fence This $50 fence can make your router table sing! By George Vondriska You can build this completely tricked-out router table fence in an afternoon for about 50 [...]

Stickley-Style Plate Rack Beautify your bungalow with an American classic. By Garrett Glaser Whether it displays everyday china or an heirloom collection, this handsome plate rack does the job [...]

Some time ago I posted about the Lee Valley Shooting Plane. In that post I used a shop-made shooting board. That will be the subject of today’s lesson…err, blog post. When I made the [...]

Custom-Made Crown Molding By John English Here’s how to make the crown molding for the pantry. It’s all done on the tablesaw. The biggest challenge is figuring out which cut to make when. 1. Make [...]

This trick is subtitled: Don’t Follow SketchUp Documentation When Using the Follow Me Tool I teach SketchUp both live and in videos. I get numerous questions and I mentally log them in [...]

Of all the pithy quotes I heard or saw tweeted at Woodworking in America a few months ago, the one at left has been banging around in my head the most. I want to look at the process of furniture [...]

Video Chad’s squaring blocks (“Bow Front Corner Cabinet,” page 37)   Video Chad’s thin-ripping jig Plans for the thin-ripping jig (“Bow Front Corner [...]

Today, I was coding the “Great Woodshops” article on Jeff Miller that Christopher Schwarz wrote for our February 2012 issue, and I categorized it in our back end under [...]

A former musician brings an improvisational skill to the craft. by Christopher Schwarz Somewhere between street musician and the symphony orchestra, between an 18th-century hand woodworker and a [...]

I try to keep Adam Bowett’s book “Woods in British Furniture-Making 1400-1900” closed tight as much as possible. That’s because every time I open it, I lose at least an hour of my day reading a [...]

As some of us have already begun dismantling this year's Christmas tree, the tree made in this video most certainly would not be tossed to the sidewalk. I do not know much about this [...]

Straight-Shooting Drill Jig You may not face this problem often, but when you need to drill a hole nice and straight but the part is too big to fit on the drill press, here’s what to do: [...]