Techniques

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 all, and you’re working with [...]

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 it long enough, [...]

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.

Resawing on the bandsaw allows you to cut logs into lumber, make thin boards from thick and cut your own veneer. Here's how.

Various methods are used to create an ellipse. The method shown here, often called the trammel method, is relatively simple and you can use it to make an ellipse of just about any size.