Projects

Making Portable Folding Saw Horses

Saw horses are good to have for every home owner, handyman or woodworker; doubly so if they are easy to store when not in use. Fro...
Making A Down Draft Sanding Table With Storage

A downdraft sanding table with a whole lotta storage. The storage will mainly be devoted to fasteners (various screws, bolts, nuts...
Making A Sanding Station

After finished my disk sander project, I needed a place to put it. Having just bought a new Rigid oscillating belt and spindle san...
Router Table II

My router table has seen a lot of use lately, as I’ve been using it on many of my recent projects. While it is certainly wel...
Making a Router Bit Cabinet

When I built my router table, I had a shop that was nearly twice as big as the one I’m in now, so there was plenty of space ...
Making A Folding Miter Stand

A miter saw is a really handy tool. Its portability makes it great for jobs where it’s not practical to move the material to...
Assembling Drawers With Biscuits

This project is part of my miter saw station build. Most of the time when we think about making drawers for a cabinet, there’...
Making A Drill Press Leveling Base

A drill press is very nearly a mandatory tool for a reasonably well equipped wood shop. The better ones are floor standing models,...
How To Make a Lathe Stand

I recently got a new wood turning lathe, a fairly inexpensive model that came with a metal bolt-together stand. The stand is proba...
Heated Cabinet

This is a project for those of us living in areas where it gets cold during the winter. Where I live, it can easily get down to -3...
A Flip Stand For A Bench Grinder And Outfeed Support

This project is a good solution for those of us that have a fairly small shop, as it serves two totally unrelated purposes in a sm...
Making A Deep Shop Cabinet With Drawers

In my never ending drive to improve my workshop, I took a hard look at the front of the shop. It has always been a problem area, m...
Making A Miter Saw Cabinet

About two years ago, I decided to make a semi-permanent place for my Hitachi mitre saw. Situated along one side of my shop, I buil...
Making A Chest Of Drawers For The Workbench

The first requirement for having and maintaining a well organized workshop starts with the desire to make it so. After that hurdle...
Upside-Down Band Saw Blade Drawer

This one came about after watching this video from Pocket83: I thought that solution to the unfolded band saw blade problem was br...
Making A Small Woodworking Chisel

This is a project that I started and finished nearly two years ago, but for a few reasons didn’t publish at that time. First...
Making A Scraper From Used Planer Blades

I had just changed the knives on my planer, since the old ones (the original set that I had already sharpened twice using this sha...
Making The Ultimate Sanding Block

Sanding, especially hand sanding, is a pain. Anything that can help make the job easier and go faster is welcome, such as a well m...
Wood Frame Dovetail Saw

While I can’t say that this is a saw that will get a lot of use in my shop, it was interesting to make. Who knows, maybe I&#...