Projects

Shop-Made Router Lift Features you can’t buy at a price you won’t believe. By Bruce Kieffer and Richard Tendick Router lifts are hot items these days and for good reason. Veteran [...]

  The twins are coming along well. The four sides of both base cupboards have been dadoed, rabbeted and sanded. The cut-outs have been roughly cut with the jigsaw.  Since [...]

Hi everyone just got done with this 8 gun cabinet. I work in a small shop and find it hard to make large items. The hardest part is being able to spray on the clear coats. Just never enough room [...]

This week I was finally able to purchase a new table saw.  I had been "getting by" with a lowly Ryobi 10" contractor saw with a tiny table.  I tried the 'build a saw [...]

These clamping jigs are easy to make and you’ll use them constantly. I’ve found that 4-inch and 6-inch jigs fill most of my needs. Each jig consists of two L-shaped 3/4-inch MDF [...]

My son-in-law is a Duke Blue Devil basket ball fan so I created this checker set for him.  Half the pieces are painted blue and half are white.  When you make it across you replace the [...]

Q. I’ve been told that the gray wheels that came with my grinder will burn my woodworking tools and that white wheels are better. True? A. The stock wheels that come with most grinders are [...]

In July 2005 American Woodworker magazine issue #115,  I saw an article on building this attractive hutch (left). I spontaniously fell in love with it and read the complete article. This [...]

These plant hangers make great giveaways…especially during Spring season.  I copied this pattern from my neighbors plant hanger and made a couple of spare templates from 1/4" [...]

Not even Scout the dog was brave enough to land this lunker, there's only one fisherman brave enough to land such a monster in his 12 ft aluminum boat.  He doesn't even worry about [...]

Lee Valley's new Countersunk Washers solve the problem of screw heads splitting stock. The washer/screw combination applies force the same way a pan-head screw does, but is counterbored to a [...]

This isn’t the simplest project you’ll ever make ,but it may be one of the most useful. It involves making mortise-and-tenon joinery and raised panels, fitting a drawer to its [...]