Making a Router Pattern Guide

  When building the base of my twin hutches I had to cut four identical decorative cutouts. Since I had four identical cuts to make, it was worthed to build...

Twin Kitchen Hutches #3

  My project, building two kitchen hutches for my dinning room, is coming along well. As you can see on this picture, a dry assembly has been done, screw holes have...

Rolling Clamp Rack

When you’ve got so many clamps that it’s a problem getting them to where the work is being done, build this rolling clamp rack!

Dock Chair Leg Patterns

In the June 2009 issue of Popular Woodworking, we printed the patterns for the front and rear legs of the "Dock Chair." Instead of asking you to enlarge these patterns on a photocopy machine, you [...]

Clock Restoration

Here is a clock that I made to restore the original that fell from the wall and broke the plastic housing.  Fortunately the glass, clock mechanism and decorative columns all stayed...

Tombstone Doors

Tombstone Doors By Lonnie Bird Through many years studying and building 18th-century furniture, I’ve learned that this era produced countless fine examples of good design. One example is the [...]

Twin Kitchen Hutches #2

  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 [...]

Walnut Gun Cabinet

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...

Duke Blue Devil Checker set

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...

Choose the Right Grinding Wheel

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...