Techniques

If you've never put brush to bare wood (or you'd like a refresher), learn how to greatly improve your chances of success.

You can use a router to joint two boards at once. This is a really handy trick if you don’t have a long-bed jointer or you don’t have a jointer at all, and you’re working with [...]

Build these easy-to-make plywood show panels to display your woodwork. Woodworkers love to make things out of wood. Naturally, we like to share what we make. And, if you’re at it long enough, [...]

Mistakes are always exasperating, but much less so when you have a few tricks up your sleeve to make them right. Here's one of mine.

Nancy Hiller demonstrates quick method she used to spiff up old trim so that it would match the original trim in the customers' house.

Resawing on the bandsaw allows you to cut logs into lumber, make thin boards from thick and cut your own veneer. Here's how.

Various methods are used to create an ellipse. The method shown here, often called the trammel method, is relatively simple and you can use it to make an ellipse of just about any size.

Here's some hard-won advice for installing Blum's Tip-On hardware to an existing Movento runner system for trash receptacles.

Shop organization is likely a recurring topic throughout anyone’s woodworking career. That’s why we devoted several articles to the topic in our Woodworking Essentials column [...]

Learn how to make through dovetails step by step and improve your overall hand tool skills.

Your router table is the perfect tool for making an almost limitless variety of picture frames. Here's three to start.

Money's no object, and the sky's the limit. This is the woodworking gift list that dreams are made of.