By Jon Stumbras Next time you open a fresh lot of biscuits, try each one in a typical slot and separate them into three piles: too tight, too loose and just the right fit. Put each pile into a plastic…

Project #2216 • Skill Level: Advanced • Time: 3 Days • Cost: $150 If you’re like me, it’s difficult to imagine beginning the day without a piping hot cup of a caffeinated beverage. For some…

By Ian Kirby For tough and intelligent tool storage, it’s hard to beat a professional mechanic’s tool chest. It has shallow full-extension drawers tailored to the tools inside, it rolls around, and it’…

By Tim Johnson…

Editor's note: Nancy Hiller passed away on August 29th, 2022 after a long battle with cancer. In honor of her memory, we will be sharing some of our favorite contributions from her over the years.

Unique because of its appearance and easy to build because it's constructed using basic woodworking techniques, this two-part cabinet provides copious storage and signals the work—and the shop—of a…

The trick to fitting wooden pieces into impossible recesses is to learn about “ticking sticks.” These simple sticks – plus a sheet of paper – can make monstrous tasks into a easy job. Here’s how they…

by Eric Smith and David Radke It's time to increase the storage space in your kitchen by accessing its underutilized space. Here's how to reclaim that wilderness area underneath the sink…

I usually work alone, but when I install upper cabinets, I always enlist the help of two shop-made cabinet jacks. They're steadier than an extra pair of hands. The jacks stand on the lower cabinets.

Someday in your woodworking career, you’ll want to reach for the sky. Maybe you’ll have an urge to make an ambitious piece of your own design, or perhaps you’ll prefer to walk in the shoes of…

As the old saying goes, sometimes you have to learn to walk before you can run. That's certainly been true in my career as a cabinetmaker: I've tried to learn the basics on small projects…

Free plans to build a DIY Buffet or sideboard to add lots of storage to your dining area and serving space for the holiday season parties.

This 3-cabinet unit is designed to organize and store finishing supplies ranging from flammable liquids to Q-tips in ways that makes them easy to access and (just as important!) easy to put back.

Learn Tools and Equipment Vocabulary in English with Pictures and Examples.

Our Stain & Finishing Oil All in One does just as it says! It adds colour, and adds a sealing oil at the same time!

Someday in your woodworking career, you’ll want to reach for the sky. Maybe you’ll have an urge to make an ambitious piece of your own design, or perhaps you’ll prefer to walk in the shoes of…

Someday in your woodworking career, you’ll want to reach for the sky. Maybe you’ll have an urge to make an ambitious piece of your own design, or perhaps you’ll prefer to walk in the shoes of…

My beat-up garage-sale seven-drawer metal tool cabinet was an eyesore. I wanted something bigger and better, but mostly I wanted something that looked like it belonged in a woodworking shop.

One of the most impressive pieces of furniture in the show (read part one of my story here) is a tall, pod-like cabinet that was commissioned by a wrist-watch collector. To house the collection…

Tambour doors are a bit of woodworking sleight of hand. Now you see them, now you don’t. Fun to open and fun to close, tambours invite you to play with your furniture. Designing a tambour can be fun…

Editor's note: This article originally appeared in the February 2014 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine. One of the enduring features of Roy Underhill’s “The Woodwright’s Shop” PBS television show…

As the old saying goes, sometimes you have to learn to walk before you can run. That's certainly been true in my career as a cabinetmaker: I've tried to learn the basics on small projects…

Someday in your woodworking career, you’ll want to reach for the sky. Maybe you’ll have an urge to make an ambitious piece of your own design, or perhaps you’ll prefer to walk in the shoes of…

Someday in your woodworking career, you’ll want to reach for the sky. Maybe you’ll have an urge to make an ambitious piece of your own design, or perhaps you’ll prefer to walk in the shoes of…

by Eric Smith and David Radke It's time to increase the storage space in your kitchen by accessing its underutilized space. Here's how to reclaim that wilderness area underneath the sink…

The 18th century – a time when human hands were set to work in order to create the objects of material culture; when men and women by their sweat and ingenuity wrought wares in the latest fashions…

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

This simple credenza is perfect for storing your extra dishes and linens. The seamless case features routed joints reinforced with floating tenons as well as easy lock miter drawers.

By Eric Smith…

For those with mechanical minds, building furniture that folds into small spaces is great fun. Not only does the piece have to look good and serve its ultimate function as a bookcase, chair, or bed…

Woodworking Projects for Beginners: Here's 50 great beginner woodworking projects that will get you comfortable with the basics of building with wood. Some of the projects below can be completed in a weekend and others in just a few hours, either way all the projects will help y…

Unique because of its appearance and easy to build because it's constructed using basic woodworking techniques, this two-part cabinet provides copious storage and signals the work—and the shop—of a…

As the old saying goes, sometimes you have to learn to walk before you can run. That's certainly been true in my career as a cabinetmaker: I've tried to learn the basics on small projects…

Someday in your woodworking career, you’ll want to reach for the sky. Maybe you’ll have an urge to make an ambitious piece of your own design, or perhaps you’ll prefer to walk in the shoes of…

by Eric Smith and David Radke It's time to increase the storage space in your kitchen by accessing its underutilized space. Here's how to reclaim that wilderness area underneath the sink…

This jewelry box is the perfect project to showcase that small piece of wood you’ve been saving to be the centerpiece of something special.

As the old saying goes, sometimes you have to learn to walk before you can run. That's certainly been true in my career as a cabinetmaker: I've tried to learn the basics on small projects…

In this article, we'll explore some hottest-selling woodworking items that will help you make money.

DIY Tilt Out Trash Can Cabinet Tutorials: Trash Can Holder Wood working easy kitchen organization, hide ugly trash can

Sponsored by Festool There are levels of achievement in woodworking. Building your first table, your first chair, and building cabinets for a room in your house. For that last one, there'