Projects

If you are a regular reader then you know we’re into workbenches at Popular Woodworking Magazine. We’ve printed several articles on benches, bench design and using benches effectively [...]

I have used a bowling alley 7' length made of maple and pine for my bench top.  I have it sanded and planed to new wood as level as I can get it.  There a few cracks ~1/16" [...]

I roughly cut the top shelves of the hutches.       I’m ripping strips to make the moldings to fill the underside of the top shelves. To stay on the safe side for the router [...]

Universal Clamp Rack I’ve tried several designs for clamp racks but this one’s the best because it holds lots of different types of clamps. It’s also very simple to build. I [...]

Light-Duty Folding Worktable By Kevin Boudreau   Sometimes a guy just needs some space on which to spread out. That’s why I built this folding worktable for my compact workshop. [...]

    I have a couple tools from which I frequently remove the dust collector hoses. I got tired of getting out my screwdriver and cranking out the adjustment bolt every time. After a bit [...]

        I came up with this slick way to drill a large, straight hole in the end of a post. It works great and makes good use of my tall floor-mounted drill press.   To [...]

          I recently built a project that required a tall vertical fence for my tablesaw. My tablesaw fence lacks a T-slot and I didn’t want to drill holes through [...]

Jumbo Tape Dispenser I have five or six different kinds of tape in my shop, and last weekend I got fed up with rooting through a drawer to find the one I wanted. To solve the problem, I built [...]

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 [...]