Projects

Serving Tray Make one or many: simple shop-made jigs guarantee success. By Tim Johnson Snacks, hors d’oeuvres or breakfast in bed: this tray delivers the goods in style. It weighs almost [...]

Furniture Repair Tips Tricks for taking it apart and getting it back together. by Mac Wentz Major furniture repair often involves disassembling the piece and putting it back together. Sounds [...]

  To give a decorative touch, I’m installing on the router a flush trim bit which has a fine V tip.     I align the V tip with the joint between the uprights and the face [...]

Stunning grain. Huge boards. Highly rot resistant. A dream (or a nightmare) to work. What one wood fits this bill? Mahogany, of course.   by Tom Caspar           [...]

  To proceed gluing the face frames, I raise the casings on these shopmade I-beams. Doing so, I’ll be able to slip the clamps under the casings.     I spread a moderate [...]

      Bar clamps are great tools, but sometimes it’s tough to get a good grip on the small wood handle. To get extra torque, I drilled a hole in the handle and inserted a [...]

            Recently I was routing a decorative edge on a large round tabletop. About halfway around, my router started to vibrate and I noticed (with great dismay) [...]

Better filtration for single-stage collectors by Dave Munkittrick The cartridge filter is the first significant improvement in single-stage dust collection in more than 30 years. Cartridge [...]

          A little metalworking finds its way into my woodshop from time to time. When cutting metal, it’s best to use a machinist’s vise to get a better [...]

        I found a new place to store dispensers right under my nose. Any lightweight stuff that comes in a box can be fastened to the bottom of a cupboard and still leave [...]

            My outrigger support is just the ticket for cutting full sheets of plywood in my small shop.    If you own a T-square-style fence, or even one [...]

        To change the blade on my tablesaw, I used to wedge the front end of my push stick between the saw table and the blade teeth, so I could loosen or re-tighten the arbor [...]