No-number Geometric Layouts
Many layout problems that seem to call for math can be quickly solved with a compass and a straightedge. Numbers can confuse and complicate the situation. What you need to know is how to make [...]
‘Foundations of Better Woodworking’
What’s the secret to producing beautiful furniture that you and your family will treasure for generations? It starts with the fundamentals – those essential, yet often overlooked principles upon [...]
Tommy Mac’s Toolbox from December 2012 Issue Popular Woodworking Mag
This is a SketchUp model of Tommy Mac’s Toolbox from the December 2012 issue. View the SketchUp Model View All SketchUp Models Purchase SketchUp Learning Products from Shopwoodworking.com…
Moravian Stool from December 2012 Issue Popular Woodworking Magazine
This is a SketchUp model of the Moravian Stool from the December 2012 issue. View the SketchUp Model View All SketchUp Models Purchase SketchUp Learning Products from Shopwoodworking.com…
The Woodwright’s Shop Season 6
How To Buy Streaming video — Available at ShopClass.PopularWoodworking.com DVD — Order now on ShopWoodworking.com Learn more about all Roy Underhill episodes here. Episode Guide [...]
Your Guide to Butt Hinges
Stamped vs. Extruded vs. Cast hinges • Inexpensive hinges are usually stamped out of thin steel or brass plates. • Extruded hinges are molten metal forced into a die under high pressure. They are [...]
The Woodwright’s Shop Season 5
How To Buy Streaming video — Available at ShopClass.PopularWoodworking.com DVD — Order now on ShopWoodworking.com Learn more about all Roy Underhill episodes here. Episode Guide [...]
How to Calculate Wood Shrinkage and Expansion
Wood movement can ruin a seemingly well-constructed project. Luckily getting ahead of the material and calculating wood shrinkage and expansion is fairly easy – all you need to do is multiply [...]
‘Shaker Carry Box’ SketchUp Model
This is a model of the I Can Do That “Shaker Carry Box” from the October 2012 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine. View the SketchUp Model for version one (above), and version two [...]
Your Guide to Router Collets
How a Collet Works • A collet is the steel sleeve that holds a router bit in a router. The collet works with the router shaft (connected directly to the motor) and the collet nut. • [...]
Add Accuracy to a Miter Gauge
Attach a 3/4″ x 2-1/2″ x 28″ board to your miter gauge (not an original idea), then put a piece of masking tape on the table saw in front of the blade insert. Then cut partway [...]
Online Extras: April 2009 Issue
Online Extras for the April 2009 issue include a video about how to use glue for veneering, full-size patterns of the top and bottom side profiles of the Greene & Greene Medicine Cabinet, [...]