How to Build a Cold Frame For Winter Gardening (With Plans!)
Your plant-growing season can start long before warm weather hits-all it takes is a wooden cold frame box with a transparent roof. Here's how to build one of these mini-greenhouses yourself.
8 Feb 2010 at 11:00pm
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8 Feb 2010 at 11:00pm
How to Turn Easy-to-Make DIY Boxes Into Flexible Furniture
If you can build a box, you can build almost anything. Build 10 boxes and you can furnish a room. Here's how to turn homemade veneered plywood boxes into a platform bed, coffee table and storage shelves.
30 Dec 2009 at 11:00pm
Pro Tips For Installing Crown Molding
Crown molding is not easy to install, but the right trim can transform a room. Here are illustrated step-by-step guidelines that prove that a skillful layout and smart shortcuts can change any apprentice carpenter into a ceiling molding master.
1 Nov 2009 at 11:00pm
8 Alternative DIY Woodworking Projects
These eight alternative woodworking techniques from Instructables prove that it's possible to execute a successful project using down-and-dirty methods that emphasize frugality over formality.
24 Sep 2009 at 12:00am
How to Build a Wooden Bench: DIY Woodworking Project
Here's an easy weekend woodworking project. A simple wooden bench, which features a hinged top above a surprisingly spacious storage compartment. The 14 x 36-inch seat is wide enough to accommodate two adults.
14 Aug 2009 at 12:00am
The Science of Flooring: DIY Guide
Here's a look at recent advances in flooring technology-flat, scratch-free floors that can soundproof a room, snap together without nails and sit cozily on top of concrete-and how it works.
10 Jul 2009 at 12:00am
How to Plan and Post a Perfect Pergola
Pergolas can be the perfect backyard oasis, but they're also fun to build. They're a perfect blend of big honkin' timbers, some pretty neat carpentry and a little landscaping thrown in for good measure. Here's how to plan and post a perfect pergola.
23 Apr 2009 at 12:00am
How to Design and Cut Signature Rafter Tails for a Pergola
One of my favorite things about pergolas is how unique they can be. This pattern-I'm officially naming it the Clipped Circle-is easy to lay out and replicate accurately for every rafter.
23 Apr 2009 at 12:00am
How to Build A Storage Shed: Frequently Asked Questions
Over the years, Popular Mechanics has published several articles about designing and building backyard storage sheds. These articles have always generated a lot of mail from readers looking for specific answers to their shed-building questions.
12 Feb 2009 at 11:00pm
How to Build a Tough Toolbox: Step-by-Step Plans With 3D
Toolboxes these days look less and less like boxes. They're bags, usually. This homebuilt box has a nickel handle as beefy as a billy club, a diamond-plate exterior, sturdy oak ends-and there's not a stitch of fabric to be found.
29 Dec 2008 at 11:00pm
How to Build a Pergola: FAQs
Pergola expert Mark Clement answers some of the most frequently asked questions on pergola design and construction to help you get started on your own pergola project.
2 Dec 2008 at 11:00pm
Woodworking Tips Blog
Cut Thin Strips Safely and Accurately
A zero-clearance insert with a splitter is one of the big keys to safely and accurately ripping thin strips. The insert prevents a strip from getting trapped between the blade and the opening. And the splitter keeps the strip from binding on the blade. (See information on a Freud rip blade).
To make a new insert [...]
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4 Mar 2010 at 11:00am
Mounting a Machinist?s Vise on a Woodworking Bench
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From the Woodsmith Shop TV Show: Make this quick mount for a Machinist’s Vise on your Workbench
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4 Mar 2010 at 11:00am
Small Shop Solutions
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How-to plans for building the shop you?ve always dreamed of! Plus tips and techniques to make your shop time more productive.
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4 Mar 2010 at 11:00am
How to Remove Dried Glue Squeeze-out
Even though removing dried glue squeeze-out is a common task, it?s no picnic. But, as you can see in the photos above, a chisel is the perfect tool for the task.
When glue has dried in a corner, like the drawer you see above left, try a bevel-down grip to “pop” the glue out. The bevel [...]
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25 Feb 2010 at 11:00am
Bookcases, Cabinets and Shelves
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Get step-by-step plans to build beautiful bookcases, classic cabinets, and timeless shelves.
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25 Feb 2010 at 11:00am
How to Make Shelf Pins Disappear
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From the Woodsmith Shop TV Show: Here’s how to hide the shelf pins in your next shelving project (See information on a straight plunge router bit).
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25 Feb 2010 at 11:00am
Plywood Lumber Rack
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From the Woodsmith Shop TV Show: Build this Lumber Rack from a single sheet of Plywood.(download lumber rack plans)
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18 Feb 2010 at 11:00am
Tips for Chamfering End Grain
Planing a chamfer on the end grain of a workpiece is more challenging since the blade can chipout the edge at the end of the cut.
But there are a couple ways to avoid this. On a wide workpiece you can plane toward the center by working from both edges. And for a narrow workpiece, you [...]
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18 Feb 2010 at 11:00am
120 Shop-Tested Tips & Techniques
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120 woodworking tips & techniques, including:
4 steps to perfect cuts on your table saw
Perfect-fitting joinery you can master
Secrets to aligning and clamping miter corners
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18 Feb 2010 at 11:00am
Using a Bench Hook in your Shop
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From the Woodsmith Shop TV Show: Often overlooked, a simple bench hook can save time and increase accuracy.
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11 Feb 2010 at 11:00am
Google News Search: Woodworking
New & Used Woodworking Machinery and Equipment Marketplace Introduced Today -...
New & Used Woodworking Machinery and Equipment Marketplace Introduced Today
PR-inside.com (press release)
The company, a division of Industrial Leaders, said the publication serves as a wood working products buying guide for domestic and international ...
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10 Mar 2010 at 6:42am
He's got a feel for making maple syrup - Boston Globe
He's got a feel for making maple syrup
Boston Globe
?You can't do woodworking if you can't cut a straight line, much less see a straight line,'' he says. Bruckert also volunteers his time to teach personal ...
10 Mar 2010 at 1:30am
Reader of the Week: Local business owners help Scouts organize - News-Herald.com
Reader of the Week: Local business owners help Scouts organize
News-Herald.com
Boy Scouts of Pack 75 from St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church in Mentor recently learned how to swing a hammer and use woodworking ...
9 Mar 2010 at 11:50pm
Gregory Schummers - Baltimore Sun
Gregory Schummers
Baltimore Sun
For the past 25 years, he worked as a manager, vice president and business owner in the field of architectural woodworking. One of Mr. Schummers' early ...
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7 Mar 2010 at 2:26am
Noble Savages | A Men's Tea Party - New York Times (blog)
Noble Savages | A Men's Tea Party
New York Times (blog)
But as the snow melted, these boys were happy to gather at Nightwood's woodworking studio near the Brooklyn Navy Yard for strong, earthy teas and ...
9 Mar 2010 at 3:21pm
Loch's Maple Syrup slates 14th annual open house - Scranton Times-Tribune
Loch's Maple Syrup slates 14th annual open house
Scranton Times-Tribune
There also will be demonstrations of soap making, spinning, blacksmithing, woodworking, weaving, quilting and knitting. Maple syrup and related products ...
10 Mar 2010 at 3:09am
Investigators Determine Cause In Front Royal Fire - WHSV
Investigators Determine Cause In Front Royal Fire
WHSV
... from all windows and the roof upon arrival of fire units. Heavy fire load of wood furniture and woodworking products contributed to the spread of the fire.
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9 Mar 2010 at 2:55pm
Love of woodworking sustains Cape Coral man, 91 - The News-Press
Love of woodworking sustains Cape Coral man, 91
The News-Press
But Gulf Coast Village resident Allen Richardson's lifelong love affair has been woodworking. ...
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5 Mar 2010 at 12:13am
Kennedy Middle School nails a winner with Woodworking Club - Meriden Record-J...
Kennedy Middle School nails a winner with Woodworking Club
Meriden Record-Journal
SOUTHINGTON - Walking through the hallway in Kennedy Middle School after dismissal Thursday and the thunderous sound of several children pounding nails ...
7 Mar 2010 at 4:43pm
South Shore entrepreneur Brian McAlpine: A hands-on businessman - The Patriot...
South Shore entrepreneur Brian McAlpine: A hands-on businessman
The Patriot Ledger
In 2006, he attended the North Bennett Street School in Boston's North End for a three-month woodworking course. Two years later, he opened up his Braintree ...
9 Mar 2010 at 1:02am
Yahoo News Search: Woodworking
