Shop Projects
Enhance your workshop with woodworking plans for shop projects, from tool stands to workbenches, shop-made tools, and more.
Ripping Essentials
This technique collection contains everything you need to know for safe and accurate rip cuts on your table saw every time.
Crosscut Essentials
This technique collection contains everything you need to know for accurate crosscuts on the table saw time after time.
Arts & Mysteries: Making & Using Sawhorses
If you are going to be doing a significant amount of sawing by hand, you are going to need to buy or build a good set of sawhorses.
Jig Journal: 50-cent Band Saw Fence
Sometimes the best jigs are the simplest.
Jig Journal: Table Saw Tenon Jig
With five pieces of wood and a clamp, you can make vertical cuts safely.
Woodworking Essentials Ch 7: Advanced Router Techniques
Our seven-part series on routers concludes with a chapter devoted to a number of the expert-level functions you can perform with your router.
Quadralinear Posts
A technique article explaining how to make quadralinear (sometimes spelled quadrilinear) posts, which are a common feature of Arts & Crafts furniture.
Woodworking Essentials Ch 3: Basic Table Saw Joinery
Learn the best techniques for making simple joints using your table saw: miters, rabbets and dados.
Working Small
Ripping and routing small pieces doesn't have to be dangerous or difficult.
Jig Journal: Draw Perfect Arcs
A simple method to draw large arcs without knowing the radius, and a reliable no-math method of finding the center and radius of an arc.
Jig Journal: Shop-made Mortise Jig
You don't need fancy tools or a special machine to create a traditional joint.
Woodworking Essentials Ch 4: Router Joinery
Our seven-part series on routers continues with everything you need to know about all the joints that can be made using a router.