Apple Cider Press With Grinder: An all-oak cider press with an integrated apple grinder.

Most novice do-it-yourselfers feel perfectly comfortable using an electric drill or jigsaw, but nearly all of them are hesitant to pick up a portable circular saw. Here are 10 tips to help you cut safely and more confidently.

Creating accurate mortises quickly is a great way to get the most out of your plunge router. This easy-to-use jig simplifies the process.

A sturdy pair of traditional beechwood mallets, weighing 12 oz. and 19 oz. respectively. Taper assembled, they can be easily knocked apart for storage or transport. Used for generations by furniture makers and carpenters for driving chisels or for final fitting of parts. A very simple design that has stood the test of time. Although nominally a woodshop tool, they have great utility throughout the home: for example, while assembling knock down furniture, or forcefully 'encouraging' any two surfaces to align. We've used them to drive in alignment shafts on our automotive projects, and to free up seized parts when a steel hammer would cause damage. Very highly recommended as tools all around the house and shop.

Think of a bench vise as a tool that's as essential to your success as a hand plane, router, or tablesaw. Although clamps might substitute in some situations, they tend to get in the way, and a vise gives you freedom to do almost any type of work. Woodworking vises differ from metalworking vises in that they attach to the bottom of the bench surface or are built into it, with (typically wood) jaws flush with the benchtop. Metalworking vises usually mount to the top of a bench.

When using my bench model drill press on long pieces of wood, I often run into trouble holding the stock level as I drill one end.

As I had previously mentioned in another post, my family has recently purchased our first home but the kitchen was in need of some work. Part of that involves adding some open shelves, 9 foot long …

Easy Wooden Mallet: I made a mallet years ago; it was a block of wood with part of an old broomstick glued in as a handle (photo 2). It's functional, but pretty battered now and I'd wanted to make a proper one ever since I saw a very short set of instructions in an old…

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What you need to know to get started with woodturning tools, tips, and techniques. Learn about basic tools you'll need and how to use them.

Flattening twisted and rough cut lumber is a breeze with this router jig.

DIY Woodworking Vise: I'm moving my workshop from the cellar into the garage to have more space. I built my own workbench and what's still missing, is a woodworking vise. There are several vise sets online, but I want to build my own one. In this Instructable you can fol…

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Angle Divider for Perfect Miters: In 1903 Stanley Tools patented their No. 30 Angle Divider. It accurately divides an inside corner angle* for transferring the correct miter angle to your saw. This is especially useful for installing baseboard molding where corners in homes are seld…

Today I visited Inoue Hamono, a tool store not far from where I am staying. "Hamono" means "bladed things" (more or less), a pretty good na...

Japanese-style woodworker, Len Cullum, shows us how to create a butterfly spline.

I dag har vi starta arbeidet med å høvle til materialane til høvelbenken. Vi målte fuktinnhald på mellom 17 og 19 % på materialen. Vi prøvde oss med ein okshøvel med enkel tann til å høvle ned flas…

CHOPSTICK Steamer and Bending Jig: With all these chopsticks laying around (My wife loves to eat Chinese a little too much) I'm always looking for ways too make use of these little shard's of wood. It occurred to me that I could probably make some cool curves, however looking …

One of the best ways to turn thick boards into thin workpieces is by resawing them at the band saw. But if you’ve ever tried to resaw using a fence to guide the board, you know that the blade can sometimes drift, leav-ing you with an uneven cut. This simple jig takes care of that problem.

Improve your accuracy and control with these 5 router jigs. By: Bill Hylton Why buy a commercial jig when making one yourself will triple your enjoyment? First, you’ll experience the joy of building a…

Think of a bench vise as a tool that's as essential to your success as a hand plane, router, or tablesaw. Although clamps might substitute in some situations, they tend to get in the way, and a vise gives you freedom to do almost any type of work. Woodworking vises differ from metalworking vises in that they attach to the bottom of the bench surface or are built into it, with (typically wood) jaws flush with the benchtop. Metalworking vises usually mount to the top of a bench.

We test-drive the hardiest “toys” on the market By Bob Duncan While some carvers resort to a chainsaw to remove excess wood quickly, other options exist for carvers who are hesitant to handle one. Automach CH-80 This large reciprocating carver is not just for fans of edged tools. With …

For about $30, you can fortify your bar clamp arsenal with these mighty tools. These clamps apply pressure horizontally as well as vertically, so the joint edges are wedged tightly together and stay level.

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So, do you remember the La Forge Royale Miter Jack we've been working on? Is your's finished? Good, because we're just now getting around to shooting some video of the thing. Which we did today, even though it was 68 degrees outside, billowy white clouds, no humidity, light breeze. The kind of weather that makes you wish you were a meter reader. Wait, does anyone do that anymore? Well, you get the drift. The La Forge Royale miter jack is indeed a piece of imperial hand-tool jiggery that you won't be able to live without, even if you think your fancy-pants shooting board is your Obi-Wan Kenobi to the miter jack's Luke Skywalker. If you think this jack can't perform, it can bullseye whomp rats with the best of them. For the record, after building the La Forge Royale Miter Jack, I've named all my shooting boards Jar-Jar Binks. But all tomfoolery aside, a miter jack really does deserve a place in your pantheon of appliances. Why? It can do stuff that a shooting board struggles with. Like angled tenon shoulders. Shooting boards can't do those at all. At all! The miter jack excels here. It provides a dead flat and precise ramp to ride your chisel down, ensuring your shoulders are all in the same plane. Easy and fun. Especially if you like Asian joints. No, I'm not talking about the place downtown with the incredible steamed dumplings (I paused here for 10 minutes and daydreamed) I'm talking about Japanese joinery, like the triple miter. Or what about square shoulders? With a miter jack you can pare square shoulders with ease, even tweak a tenon you've managed to screw up with a shoulder plane (we've all done it, you know its true.) If you have a French-style flush saw you can even use the jack to saw angled tenon shoulders. No paring required. Or how about tweaking a miter that's off 45 by just a tad? Easy stuff for the jack. You'd have to re-plane the fence on your shooting board, add a shim, or adjust the fence (if you have an adjustable one). Okay the shooting board works pretty well here, but the jack can hold its own. Shift the workpiece a bit, plane, done. 10 seconds. Shooting board? 10.2 seconds. And what about half miters? Yeah, the LFRMJ can do those too, with its integral, quick deploying twenty-two-and-a-half-degree auxiliary ramping jaw. Wrapping moldings around forty-five's has never been more fun. There's more the miter jack can do. Like planing miters on odd-shaped stuff, like crown moulding. But to really know what its capable of, you must first have one at the ready. And we can help you with that. We still have a few miter jack kits left in stock from the small run we did late last year. You can purchase directly on our store page. Each order will receive the decal pictured above along with their kit. If you ordered a kit already, and would like a decal, drop us an email and we'll toss one in the mail for you. If you request a decal, but didn't order a kit, we might feel generous and send you one for free, but we also might lick it first to teach you a lesson about mooching. If we have any jack kits left in a couple weeks, you'll be able to purchase at the Benchcrafted booth at Handworks.

The fractal wood burning art is a Technique of applying high voltage electricity on the wood to crate Lichtenberg designs. Here is a step-by-step tutorial.

Just when you thought you’d seen every possible use for your portable workbench (the Workmate bench is shown here), here’s yet another great one.

Get better performance from your bench top or stationary table saw. With these jigs and accessories you can make safer, more accurate rips, crosscuts, dados, rabbets cuts and more.

Mounting cabinet doors is often easier said than done. Getting the hinges mounted to the door usually isn’t too difficult. But when it comes time to align the door on the cabinet face frame and screw it in place, the exercise can become awkward and sometimes frustrating. Here’s an easy way to do that.

Applies pressure from all four sides—ideal for keeping large glue-ups like table tops flat while the glue cures. Pair with your own shop-made wood strips to create a clamp of any length. To make the wood pieces, drill a series of 5/8'' holes spaced 2'' apart down the center line of the broad face of a 2x4. Then rip the board lengthwise through the centers of the holes, creating two pieces approximately 1-1/2'' x 1-11/16''. Rotate the notched boards so that notches are away from each other. Features: Applies pressure on workpiece face when edge-clamping to prevent bowing and buckling large panels Clamp attaches to any length of 2 x 2 (lumber and wood clamp pads not included) One clamp per package (each clamp includes 2 main components)

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