Woodworking Department
Our Woodworking department, suitable for both beginner and experienced woodworkers, will teach you all about this quintessential handcraft. Read about the basics or move onto advanced topics to learn how to use tools such as routers and scrollsaws, apply finishes and fasten together woodwork, an art called joinery.
The department features free samples and free project ideas, calculators, an inch/meter converter, a glossary of terms, free woodworking catalogs and more. Our online shopping center will help you order your woodworking supplies quickly and easily.
Recent Videos and Tutorials
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Even rural areas and small apartments can have fresh food and herbs by gardening with PVC pipe. This small PVC planter holds small pots.
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How to reattach a table leg that has fallen off a table
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How to Make a Pine Cone Garland
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Try this quick and easy way to repair and conceal scratches on wood furniture.
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Log Tea Light Candle Holder Tutorial
Book and Magazine Recommendations
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Spike Carlsen24 Great Di-It-Yourself projects. Give your child a unique gift of a lifetime?without breaking your checkbook?and you and your kid will have fun making it! Building Unique and Useful Kids’ Furniture: 24 Great Do-It-Yourself Projects gives complete step-by-step instructions for building 24 professionally designed one-of-a-kind children’s furniture projects that are easy to build and your kids will love.
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This magazine is for all skill levels of wood craftsmen with design ideas, techniques and projects.
New Stuff
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This chart giving the length in inches, and aproximate number per pound of the most common nail sizes.
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Sawdust Making 101
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How to make wedge clamps.
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Bench Notes
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This calculator adjusts wood amounts based on lengths of sides and angles in a project.
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Delorie Software
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How to make a hand-cut dovetail joint.
From
Sawdust Making 101
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This is a handy easy to make clamp for picture frames with mitered corners.
From
Sawdust Making 101
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A wide topped sawhorses is handy when working with short lengths. Do-It-Yourself!
From
Bench Notes
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About screwdrivers and screws
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Sawdust Making 101
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Directions for making a simple sawhorse.
From
Sawdust Making 101
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How-to install waincoting.
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Lowe's
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Tips, Hints and Free Plans.
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You Can Do It