Projects

      I just completed this last project, mobile privacy screens. Made out of pressure treated wood, they are 53’’-long and 43’’-high. I wanted them to be [...]

If you're looking for the perfect slides or inserts for your dream cabinet, you might want to check out Hafele Wood Accessories. They carry a wide range of cabinet accessories, from drawer [...]

  Two mistakes, one after the other.         When I cut the shelves for the base cabinets of the hutches, I omitted the sub-top shelf on which the top shelf will be screwed [...]

One of the earliest projects featured in Pacific Woodworker (the forebear to Popular Woodworking) was a table built by the legendary woodworker Sam Maloof. Here, you'll find [...]

  Milling angled dadoes, angled sliding dovetails and angled rabbets have always been a challenge. I use these joints when building ladder bookcases, louvers, railings and several decorative [...]

  When building the base of my twin hutches I had to cut four identical decorative cutouts. Since I had four identical cuts to make, it was worthed to build a pattern guide to ease the [...]

  My project, building two kitchen hutches for my dinning room, is coming along well. As you can see on this picture, a dry assembly has been done, screw holes have been predrilled and [...]

     This is how I have upgraded my mitersaw station. Made out of 3/4"-thick MDF, this 16 drawers 8'-long X 18"-deep X 8"-high nest raise up the station at a [...]

When you’ve got so many clamps that it’s a problem getting them to where the work is being done, build this rolling clamp rack!

In the June 2009 issue of Popular Woodworking, we printed the patterns for the front and rear legs of the "Dock Chair." Instead of asking you to enlarge these patterns on a photocopy machine, you [...]

Here is a clock that I made to restore the original that fell from the wall and broke the plastic housing.  Fortunately the glass, clock mechanism and decorative columns all stayed in [...]

Tombstone Doors By Lonnie Bird Through many years studying and building 18th-century furniture, I’ve learned that this era produced countless fine examples of good design. One example is the [...]