FREE Woodworking Plans
Download these free woodworking plans for your next project. You'll find plans for cabinets, desks, bookshelves, tables, kitchen items, toys, and much more!
Woodworking How-To
Find the tips, tricks, and techniques for your woodworking shop from wood preparation to finished cabinetry with doors and drawers. You'll also learn about joinery, measuring, and wood finishes.
WOOD Magazine: The world's most trusted woodworking resource
WOOD Magazine is the world's most trusted woodworking resource and your premier source for woodworking info, shop-proven plans, tool reviews, and videos.
Bench Vises - Wood
2024年3月6日 · Think of a bench vise as a tool that's as essential to your success as a hand plane, router, or tablesaw. Although clamps might substitute in some situations, they tend to get in the way, and a vise gives you freedom to do almost any type of work. Woodworking vises differ from metalworking vises in that they attach to the bottom of the bench surface or are built into …
Basic Woodworking Joints
2024年4月3日 · Joinery makes or breaks a project. Launched in 1984, WOOD® magazine is the world's most trusted woodworking resource — a distinction we've earned by guaranteeing our readers' success in their woodworking shops.It is the mission of our staff to inspire and inform woodworkers at every stage of their journey by providing reliable and accurate project plans, …
A Buyer's Guide to Benchtop CNC Machines - Wood
2022年7月18日 · CNC software allows you to divide large jobs into sections (tiles), providing virtually infinite capacity in one dimension. CNC tiling allows you to machine a portion of the workpiece—a "tile"—then slide the workpiece, machine another tile, move the workpiece, and so on (photo, above).You're limited only by the length of the workpiece you can support as it …
Finishes and Finishing - Wood
Don't be intimidated by the finishing process. We'll guide you to the right finish for your project—polyurethane, lacquer, shellac, and more—and show you how to get picture-perfect, repeatable results.
Power your way to a polished finish - Wood
2016年11月21日 · Sand the surface flat . Begin sanding the finish with 220- or 320-grit stearated sandpaper to remove dust nibs, brush strokes, and runs or dips, top photo, below.If you use a random-orbit sander with 220- and 320-grit discs, watch for build-up on the abrasive, middle photo below.This can form lumps, called "corns," that mar the finish instead of smoothing it.
Shop Layout Grid and Tool Templates - Wood
2019年6月6日 · Launched in 1984, WOOD® magazine is the world's most trusted woodworking resource — a distinction we've earned by guaranteeing our readers' success in their woodworking shops.It is the mission of our staff to inspire and inform woodworkers at every stage of their journey by providing reliable and accurate project plans, woodworking techniques, and product …
Plan a Whole-shop Dust-collection System - Wood
2022年8月8日 · Locating the collector centrally in the duct run, rather than at one end, helps minimize duct-run lengths. In the WOOD photo studio shop, we placed the collector in a corner with two trunks running from it [above].This puts it out of the way, yet close to the chip-producing tools that demand the most of a dust collector: the tablesaw and planer.