Our Reader Score [Total: 1 Average: 5]I have come to realize that a lot of people who visit my website are not expert woodworkers, and don’t necessarily have a workshop full of tools. So I wrote this article on how to build a table without having a workshop full of tools, or even a table …
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All About Wood Entry Doors
Our Reader Score [Total: 0 Average: 0]An entryway is the focal point of a home’s facade. And the front door, its most prized asset. Dressed with a fine lockset and handsome knocker, the door extends a friendly welcome while also discouraging intruders and shutting out the weather. It’s the first thing we grab when we …
[read more]How To: Make a Picture Frame
Our Reader Score [Total: 1 Average: 5]What is art? Critics and philosophers are free to debate the question endlessly, but we think it’s pretty simple: If there’s a frame around it, then it’s art! Less simple—but not so complex that you shouldn’t give it a try—is building your own picture frame. Beginning woodworkers love this …
[read more]How to Build a Wooden Picnic Table
Our Reader Score [Total: 0 Average: 0]This is a practical project that the whole family can team-up to build. The western red cedar’s beauty and durability will ensure countless days filled with picnic barbecues and outdoor parties. The clear finish will protect the wood from decay, insects, and ultra violet light to help maintain its …
[read more]Pipe making process
Our Reader Score [Total: 0 Average: 0]Clean shop, ready for pipe making.. Woods to be used, Amboyna Burl, African Blackwood, Padauk, maybe some red palm… Drawing the rough shape Cutting it out with a fret saw Some rough sanding Putting it on the 4 jaw chuck and turning the bowl on the lathe Putting the …
[read more]Installing and shaping scales on a small neck knife
Our Reader Score [Total: 0 Average: 0]This tutorial shows how I install scales for a small 1/16” thick neck knife. A neck blank ready for a handle Blade with masking tape put over the edge (if someone doesn’t do this, they are an IDIOT!) Blade with pinstock and scales The scales must be sanded flat. …
[read more]Pure & Simple Jewelry Box
Our Reader Score [Total: 0 Average: 0]I’m hooked on making jewelry boxes–to sell. I’m retired, so I don’t live on the income, but making dozens of boxes keeps me in the shop, where I like to be.I sell my boxes at local craft shows. Let me share with you four secrets to making a sale. …
[read more]how to build a rocking chair
Our Reader Score [Total: 0 Average: 0] Nothing says spring like a rocking chair on the porch. I kind of have a thing with chairs that rock… or bounce. I guess I never grew out of that stage from my years as a baby? Who knows, but there is definitely something so soothing about sitting …
[read more]D.I.Y. Wooden Kitchen/Bar Countertops
Our Reader Score [Total: 0 Average: 0] If my kitchen were to be radiocarbon dated, it would fall somewhere between the fall of Rome and the discovery of electricity. My house, built in 1920, originally didn’t have much in the way of kitchen cabinets. One tall cabinet, secured opposite where the original stove would have …
[read more]How to Build Perfect Picture Frames
Our Reader Score [Total: 0 Average: 0]Instructions Step 1 Have a copy shop print the picture to be framed on stiff paper (called “card stock”). To determine the lengths of frame pieces cut from 1-1/2-in-wide material, subtract 1-in from the height and width of the picture to create a 1/2-in overlap on each frame side. …
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