Techniques

Tablesaw Picture Frame Safely make shaper-quality molding on your tablesaw without fancy jigs. By Eric Smith and Richard Tendick This how-to story has a picture-perfect ending. In fact, you might...

Speaker Stand with Hidden Storage By Gary Wentz Don’t you love hearing great sound with your movies at home? A pair of these oak stands puts today’s small speakers at...

Today most of the magazine’s staff spent the day with Ron Herman, a seventh-generation housewright in Columbus, Ohio, who has spent the last 29 years building, remodeling and restoring homes...

          I use air tools for sanding, nailing and finishing. I usually work in my garage, but when the weather is nice, I often grab my...

by Eric Smith People give me strange looks when I tell them I don’t mind sanding. Yeah, it’s dusty and a bit tedious, but I enjoy watching the fine detail...

Hi. I’m a long-time reader and a first-time caller. I really want to start using handplanes in my work. I’ve been looking at some of the premium handplanes from Veritas...

          Installing a dado set on my left-tilt saw makes the scale on the rip fence un-usable. Here’s why: The cutters stack from left to right,...

          I replaced my bandsaw’s wimpy 1-1/2-in. dust-collection port with a shop-made shroud that makes bandsawing virtually dust-free. The secret: My [...]

          In my crowded shop, there’s no such thing as unusable space. My router bits store under a shop cabinet, out of the way until I...

Hold It! Roll It! Hang It! Store It!       My bench grinder is out of the way but instantly accessible, thanks to this sturdy flip-up table. It works...

After drawing the center line, I trace on a piece of hardboard each half from the paper pattern I made earlier.     Here is the result. Note that an...

      I love adjustable clamps, but I used to have trouble gripping and tightening the handles, especially at the end of a long day. Glued-on pieces of drawer...