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.
14 Feb 2010 at 10:00pm
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14 Feb 2010 at 10:00pm
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 10:00pm
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 10:00pm
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.
23 Sep 2009 at 11:00pm
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.
13 Aug 2009 at 11:00pm
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.
9 Jul 2009 at 11:00pm
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.
22 Apr 2009 at 11:00pm
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.
22 Apr 2009 at 11:00pm
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 10:00pm
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 10:00pm
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 10:00pm
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Setting Up Shop
You need Javascript enabled and a copy of the Adobe Flash Player to view this video. var vid = new SWFObject("/global/flash/player-licensed.swf","single","384","323","9"); vid.addParam("allowfullscreen","true"); vid.addParam("wmode","transparent"); vid.addVariable("file","/videoproducts/sib_settingupshop.xml"); vid.addVariable("shuffle","false"); vid.addVariable("repeat","list"); vid.addVariable("stretching","exactfit"); vid.addVariable("smoothing","true"); vid.write("video-63714"); Setting up shop or improving your current shop? This 100-page book gives you plans for storage, tool ad-ons, and shop carts, as well as essential improvements.
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2 Sep 2010 at 12:00pm
Tip for Gluing-up a Solid Wood Frame & Panel
Stub tenon and groove joinery and frame and panel construction are pretty common — we use them all the time. But when the panels are made from solid wood, it adds a whole new twist. The biggest thing to remember is that the solid wood panels will expand and contract across their width with changes [...]
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2 Sep 2010 at 12:00pm
Keeping a Wet Brush Wet While You Take a Break
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2 Sep 2010 at 12:00pm
See Inside ShopNotes Magazine
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26 Aug 2010 at 12:00pm
Don?s Table Saw Start-Up Checklist
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26 Aug 2010 at 12:00pm
How to Make a Tongue and Dado Joint
Drawers take a lot of abuse with all the opening and closing that goes on. So you want to be sure the joinery you use for the drawer will stand up. The drawer joint I like to use is a tongue and dado joint, like you see in the photo above. The joint is strong, [...]
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26 Aug 2010 at 12:00pm
See Inside: 200+ Tips & Techniques
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19 Aug 2010 at 12:00pm
Storing Screws and Small Parts
You need Javascript enabled and a copy of the Adobe Flash Player to view this video. var vid = new SWFObject("/global/flash/player-licensed.swf","single","384","236","9"); vid.addParam("allowfullscreen","true"); vid.addParam("wmode","transparent"); vid.addVariable("file","/videotips/video_20100819.xml"); vid.addVariable("shuffle","false"); vid.addVariable("repeat","list"); vid.addVariable("stretching","exactfit"); vid.addVariable("smoothing","true"); vid.addVariable("ad","woodsmith"); vid.write("video-78593"); From the Woodsmith Shop TV Show: Here are tips for keeping small parts organized and handy in the shop.
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19 Aug 2010 at 12:00pm
Hardware Tip: Use Trim Washers to Assemble Shop Projects
I often use trim washers like those you see in the photo below when it comes to assembling shop projects. Despite their name, these simple washers are not just decorative. They can save you a bit of time and solve some other problems as well. From a time standpoint, they eliminate the need for drilling [...]
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19 Aug 2010 at 12:00pm
Tight Fit for a Miter Gauge
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12 Aug 2010 at 12:00pm
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Basic Woodworking Workshop October 11-22,2010 - knox.VillageSoup.com
Basic Woodworking Workshop October 11-22,2010
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By Center for Furniture Craftsmanship | Sep 03, 2010 Basic Woodworking is a two-week Workshop open to anyone interested in learning or improving their ...
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3 Sep 2010 at 3:29pm
Woodworker's success runs against the recession's grain - Minneapolis Star Tr...
Woodworker's success runs against the recession's grain
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Brian Grabski has built a solid business making one-of-a-kind woodworking creations and paying meticulous attention to detail. Geoffrey Olinyk, shop teacher ...
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1 Sep 2010 at 9:07pm
Muhlenberg man finds sense of peace creating woodworking pieces - Reading Eagle
Muhlenberg man finds sense of peace creating woodworking pieces
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His creations include the Star of Bethlehem, the Last Supper and a nativity scene done in the Lichterbogen, or lighted arch, style of German woodworking. ...
2 Sep 2010 at 11:18pm
Woodworking Plans - Step-By-Step Wood Project Plans - Philadelphia Gay News
Woodworking Plans - Step-By-Step Wood Project Plans
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For this reason, it is very difficult for anyone to recommend any particular set of woodworking plans to all craftsmen. In regard to the tools that should ...
2 Sep 2010 at 3:25pm
Hawaii woodworker carves a new business niche - Pacific Business News
Hawaii woodworker carves a new business niche
Pacific Business News
A seasoned drummer and staple of Hawaii's rock-and-roll scene in the early 1980s, Andreoni segued into woodworking in 1987 to help out a friend. ...
2 Sep 2010 at 5:10am
Autodesk Inventor Helps Company Create Ideal Concert Hall Experience - Market...
Autodesk Inventor Helps Company Create Ideal Concert Hall Experience
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To develop the complex woodwork for the 80-foot-tall, domed Helzberg Hall, Mark Richey Woodworking needed to ensure that each wood part aligned perfectly ...
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31 Aug 2010 at 3:11pm
Choose From 14000 Plans For Woodworking Projects - OfficialWire (press release)
OfficialWire (press release)
Choose From 14000 Plans For Woodworking Projects
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Have you ever had plans for woodworking projects that you followed and then got stuck because your plans were not informative enough? ...
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31 Aug 2010 at 1:03pm
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The event will showcase arts and crafts, jewelry, woodworking, candles, clothing, metalwork, antiques, crosses, food and more. Free admission. ...
2 Sep 2010 at 6:46pm
Recovery Act brings greenbacks and green industry to Asheville - Mountain Xpress
Recovery Act brings greenbacks and green industry to Asheville
Mountain Xpress
31, for a tour of The Boggs Collective: an Asheville-based, sustainability-oriented fine woodworking operation which received a grant of nearly $100000 from ...
2 Sep 2010 at 3:52pm
Self-Amputee Makes Amazing Strides With Prosthesis - NBC Connecticut
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Self-Amputee Makes Amazing Strides With Prosthesis
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Now, the West Hartford man has a new prosthetic arm and is making amazing strides with it, including woodworking in the very basement where he went through ...
Man gets prosthetic arm after furnace ordeal [The Hartford Courant, Conn.]Insurance News Net (press release)
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25 Aug 2010 at 11:25am
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