A chair design I’m working on requires bent laminations for the back spindles. I’m using maple and am having a hard time keeping the glue lines from jumping out. Any suggestions?
Check out our Wood Carving for Beginners: Follow Tim Nyberg’s wood carving journey. Read about how he learned to carve a Ole and Lena figurines.
Sanding is the first step to preparing wood for paint or stain. These sanding secrets will help you sand your DIY projects like a pro.
DIY King Size Bed Free Plans - Free Woodworking Plans and tutorial by www.shanty-2-chic.com!
Wood furniture can get damaged in a number of ways. This is a guide about how to fix damaged surfaces of wood furniture.
Provides the basics for how to evaluate the species, cut, hardness price and other factors for choosing the lumber to use in your project.
The experts at This Old House share their top tips and techniques for sprucing up and keeping up your home without having to call in the pros
A backyard deck is a wonderful place to relax or entertain. Make sure you take care of it the right way by avoiding these common mistakes in deck care.
Let’s depart from the outdoor furniture plans for a minute. Here is a simple plan for a Jacob’s Ladder. If you don’t know what...
Applying a polyurethane finish on wood can deliver amazingly smooth results. You just need to learn the little-known trick called "buffing".
Pro tips for making perfect miters
Jim Tolpin’s article “Secrets of the Sector” in the June 2011 issue has stirred up a lot of interest and discussion among our readers. A sector is a way to eliminate arithmetic…
10 Woodworking Tricks the Pros Use: I'm always looking for shortcuts in my work, either to save time or make my life easier. Over time, I've come across a new way to do something I've done a hundred times before and wonder why it never occurred to me to find an easier way. In an effo…
There is more than one way to mount turning wood on your lathe. You can turn between centers or you can use a face plate when mounting wood on your lathe.
Here are some of my woodworking tips and technique's that I have picked up along my creative journey.
Milling Short Logs on the Bandsaw: I’ve wanted to try milling small logs on the bandsaw for a while now, so after our neighbors had a couple of poplar trees taken down (and were nice enough to give us a few logs to experiment with) it was finally time!
Spray polyurethane with a paint sprayer rather than applying with a paintbrush for a quick, easy, professional looking finish on DIY furniture projects.
