Workshop Projects

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...
Air Cleaner Move And Rebuild

I need to take care of a few things before I finish the new cabinets in the front corner of my shop. The air cleaner that I made t...
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 Precision Miter Sled (Updated)

My miter saw station is my go-to tool for making accurate square and angled cuts on narrow stock. It can handle boards up to aroun...
How To Make A Table Saw Miter Sled

I’m filing this one in the experimental category because, even though it works well, it’s far from optimal. My lack of...
Making A Miter Saw Fence

I’ve owned this miter saw for quite a long time and it has served me flawlessly over those years. It is the best I’ve ...
Making A Mini Table Saw Sled – Deluxe Version

When I made the original mini table saw sled, I basically just grabbed some scrap plywood and threw it together without much atten...
Table Saw Nut Wrench

More as a novelty than an actual need, I made this to get the nut started (and finish taking it off) of the arbor on the table saw...
Making A Norm Abram Style Cross Cut Sled

A few years ago I made this Norm Abram style (so called since he’s the only person I’ve seen using this type) and it h...
Making A Wooden Table Saw Fence

This is a project that is kind of a subsystem of the wooden table saw that I will be building in the near (ish) future. For now, i...
Repairing A Block Plane

While returning my Stanley low angle block plane to my tool board after using it, I dropped it nose first onto the concrete floor ...
Replacing The Door On My Shop

Over the six years I’ve been here, I’ve been making constant improvements to my shop to make it more comfortable to us...
Sandpaper Cutter

For some reason, I felt kind of funny while making this project – like I was building something way more complex than is rea...
How To Make A Straightedge Guide

A project on my to-do list for a long time has been a self-clamping straightedge guide made from wood. Years ago I had a retail ve...
Making A Twin Screw Vise

It wasn’t long after I finished building my quick release vise that I started thinking about one that has two lead screws, w...
Making A Screw Organizer

This is one that I’ve been meaning to do for quite some time, a dedicated set of multi-compartment drawers to hold the small...