Techniques

If you want to refinish your kitchen cabinets with milk paint, you should take heed of this advice.

We have all seen them: those chisel handles that have crumbled from years of use. Here's how to easily restore those handles to their former glory.

Benchtop mortising machines aren’t the only option when it comes to cutting square-shouldered mortises. A drill-press mortising attachment can be just as effective and it costs a lot less.

A trip to a professional upholstery shop yields valuable lessons in prototyping furniture and more.

Sometimes it's impossible to find the right hardware for a piece. That's when I turn to metalsmith Adam Nahas, who fabricates custom hardware.

Besides being useful for woodworkers or any artist who needs to display their work, this show panel project is also a great exercise in CNC thinking.

Left unfinished, brass will develop a patina with use. But sometimes you need the patina yesterday. Here are two methods to speed up the aging process.

If you've never put brush to bare wood (or you'd like a refresher), learn how to greatly improve your chances of success.

You can use a router to joint two boards at once. This is a really handy trick if you don’t have a long-bed jointer or you don’t have a jointer at...

Build these easy-to-make plywood show panels to display your woodwork. Woodworkers love to make things out of wood. Naturally, we like to share what we make. And, if you’re at...

Mistakes are always exasperating, but much less so when you have a few tricks up your sleeve to make them right. Here's one of mine.

Nancy Hiller demonstrates quick method she used to spiff up old trim so that it would match the original trim in the customers' house.