General Woodworking

Making A Woodworker’s Workbench

Design A new workbench has been on my to-do list for a number of years. I started seriously thinking about it in 2015 and drew up ...
How To Build A Toolbox With Drawers

Originally this toolbox was supposed to go with the large mobile toolbox I made as a matched pair. Much like the metal mechanics b...
How To Make A Large Mobile Tool Box

This new tool box project was inspired by my tool board, oddly enough. While planning a new workbench, I got to thinking about wha...
Making A Modern Console Stereo

When I was growing up in the 70’s and 80’s, a very common sight in living rooms was the console stereo. At least here ...
How To Make A Tambour Door

To get started, we have to go back two years when I made the corner cabinet for my kitchen. I designed it to include what’s ...
Making Wooden Vertical Blinds

Vertical blinds. Yes, the 90’s are back! To be perfectly honest, I was never a fan. Especially the really cheap thin plastic...
Making A Wooden Samurai Sword

This project actually started three or four years ago when I had an idea for making a samurai sword from wood. That would be recre...
Making Cabinet Doors – Again

Making the big cabinet doors is the final phase of my remodeling project for the front of my shop. I need three and they are built...
How To Make Cabinet Doors

The next phase of my big shop corner remodel is to make and install the doors on the upper cabinets. The cabinet door style is the...
How To Make Wall Cabinets

These wall cabinets are a modular design, much like the base cabinets I already made in this series. There will be two identical u...
Making Drawers for Cabinets

The next phase of the base cabinet project is to make the drawers, fourteen of them. The method shown here is probably my favourit...
How To Make High Quality Base Cabinets

My goal for my shop has been to steadily improve it since moving here nearly seven years ago. And for me, that process means tryin...
How To Make A Step Stool – Solid Wood

I’ve made a few step stools over the years, but none quite as nice as this one. I still have the one I made from plywood a f...
Making A Wooden Waste Basket

There’s a corner in my office where I throw things that I don’t want. Otherwise known as trash, but not “real...
Making A Manly Box

“Manly”, eh? Yes, a man needs a box to keep things in that are too important to leave laying around on a shelf or scat...
Making A Wooden Compass

While I’m calling this a compass, I mainly made it to use as dividers to scribe cabinets and other items for a tighter fit. ...
Making A Modern Office Cabinet

The next project for my office is a cabinet that serves two important functions in one: a file cabinet and a place to put the prin...
Making The Apple Mac Pro Grill From Cherry

First, I need to explain why I’m doing this. I’m working on a bigger project, a file / printer cabinet for my office, ...
Wooden Barn Door Hardware

Moving right along with the work I’m doing in my office, next on the list is this closet: The closet itself is unfinished an...