Techniques

Two-Drawer Coffee Table Pass-through drawers offer two-sided convenience. By Tim Johnson A coffee table isn’t just for coffee. It displays interesting reading and serves the Saturday night pizza. [...]

  Now that the cupboard casings are completed, the next step is making the doors. I have milled all the stiles and rails at the tablesaw.     I found a great way to sand the [...]

   I’m using a trim router to distress the edges of the cupboards.        Since I was unable to use biscuits to attach the face frame to the lower shelf, [...]

There is precious little information out there about placing your hardware so it doesn’t look awkward. My theory: Woodworking writers get so worn out by the time that they reach the end of [...]

I have never used the right amount of glue , well that’s the way everyone else sees it. Whenever Publisher Steve Shanesy comes in while I’m gluing, he’s bound to make a comment [...]

About eight years ago, when I was still a clean-shaven, short-haired senior editor, I took a trip to see the huge woodworking show at Woodstock, Ontario. There I saw some amazing things: 1. Rob [...]

      To proceed with the glue up of face frames to the cupboards I rather use sawhorses to have more room under the cupboards. I must say that my cheap plastic sawhorses are holding [...]

Though Charleston is the most ethnically diverse and open Southern city I’ve ever visited, its taste in furniture has long been English. And because I am working on a book (which should be [...]

    This is the last chance I have to sand the interior edges of the face frames. Once installed, it would be practically impossible to sand properly at the shelves level.     [...]

I’m a child of the Cold War. I remember the drills in elementary school where we curled up under our desks in the event of a nuclear attack (to kiss our butts goodbye I suppose). One of my [...]

Thursday was my day at AWFS 2009 to stop by SawStop and catch up with Mark Pennington, marketing director. He shared a few things about SawStop’s new Professional Cabinet Saw (PCS) and [...]

My grandfather’s workbench had an adhesive rule stuck to its front edge, which was extremely useful when woodworking. You could check part dimensions without pulling out a tape measure or [...]