- How-To
- Woodworking Skills
- Project Design
- Milling
- Cutting
- Drilling
- Shaping
- Joining and Fastening
- Gluing and Clamping
- Finishing
- Installing Hardware
- Making Repairs
- Tips and Techniques
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How-To
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VIDEO: Cutting Dado Slots with a Plunge Router
Learn how to make a simple router jig for cutting dado slots. This simple jig makes it easy to cut accurate dadoes with a router.
Woodworking Skills
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PROJECT: Cylindrical and Round Object Drilling Jig
A jig to steady round objects, and let you successfully drill holes in them.
Project Design
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PROJECT: Hanging Herb Garden
Grow a green thumb with modular planters, a hanging framework and drip irrigation.
Milling
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Portable Sawmills: Lumber from Local Trees
Tired of paying high prices for lumber at the lumberyard? A portable sawmill could be your ticket to getting quality wood for your next project at a more affordable price.
Cutting
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PROJECT: Shop-Made Band Saw Fence
Make a low-cost band saw fence with this free plan from the magazine.
Drilling
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Today’s Wood Screw Technology
What kind of screws should you use on your project? From heads to drives, points to threads, platings to coatings, we show you everything you need to know about the world of modern screws.
Shaping
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Create Your Own Drawer Pulls
The author’s clever set of production techniques creates a line of bow-shaped wooden drawer pulls in a hurry!
Joining and Fastening
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Video: Chisel Planes
Learn how to set up and use the Stanley #97 Chisel Plane. This is the plane to use when you need to work into a corner up to an inside edge.
Gluing and Clamping
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Making a Frame-Clamping Jig
Making picture frames is easy with this simple clamping jig. Fast, accurate clamping and easy glue cleanup are just two features of this practical jig.
Finishing
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Using a Nearly Natural Finish
Our finishing expert demonstrates some great tricks to make your inexpensive wood look high-class.
Installing Hardware
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PROJECT: Silverware Chest
This classic walnut silverware chest employs solid brass catches and hinges to help create an heirloom project in a small shop setting.
Making Repairs
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Working Turning Into Your Daily Life
The lathe should be a go-to tool for home repair and improvement, as woodturning expert Ernie Conover explains.
Tips and Techniques
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VIDEO: How to Apply a Glazing Finish with Wood Stain
You can apply glazing with regular wood stain. You don’t need a special glazing product. In this video we show you two techniques.
Woodturning
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Turning Tagua Nuts – Nature’s Faux Ivory
Once you’ve turned the tagua nut, you can’t tell it apart from ivory — but the vegetarian option is a lot friendlier to elephants.
Tricks of the Trade
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Masking Around Dowels or Plugs with Scrap Metal
When this reader installs dowels or plugs to fill screw holes, here’s how he prevents glue squeeze-out from soaking into the surrounding wood.
Workshop Organization and Storage
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Setting Up a Turning Shop
If you’re thinking of getting started in woodturning, here are some great guidelines. Our expert breaks down the “must-have” tools from the “nice to have” and even includes a few of his “dream shop” favorites.
Jigs and Tools
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VIDEO: Strong and Simple Dowel Joints with Triton Doweling Joiner
You can use a drill/driver to make dowel joints, but the Triton Doweling Joiner makes this task even easier. We take a closer look at this tool and show you how it works.
Safety
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A Quick Look at the SawStop Model JSS Jobsite Saw
Now, the company’s blade brake technology can protect end users wherever they need to cut wood — in the workshop, on the jobsite or out in the yard.
Tools & Supplies
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UGL Revamps Website to Better Inspire, Motivate and Educate DIYers
Inspiring project examples, more videos, improved product searches, are just a few of the updated features of UGL’s improved website.
What's In Store
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MiterSet Standard Miter Gauge Calibration Jig
Aluminum jig with setting pins simplifies setting miter gauge angles accurately.
Tool Reviews
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18 Gauge Cordless Brad Nailer Reviews
Woodworker’s Journal Senior Editor Chris Marshall gets fired up about testing today’s battery-powered 18-gauge brad nailers.
Industry Interviews
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Stanley Black & Decker Plans to Build on Iconic Craftsman Brand
Craftsman-branded tools, warranties to continue under new ownership; more of brand’s manufacturing to return to U.S.
Blogs
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Three Innovative New Products from Titebond
Titebond introduces three new products at IWF 2016 in Atlanta. Learn more about Titebond Quick & Thick Glue, TiteWrap, and Titebrush.
Q & A
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Is Pressure-treated Lumber Dust Hazardous?
Is pressure-treated lumber dust hazardous, and what precautions should I take when working with it?
Editor's Blogs
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Join Our Social Media Communities
Everyday we share a mix of new videos, expert answers, tool updates, reader projects, and plans.
Contributing Bloggers
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Saving Bees with a Seed Skep
Bees don’t actually live in this wooden beehive or skep, but it does hold something that will help sustain a healthy bee population.
Today's Woodworker
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Bethany Sy: Reality Daydreams of Woodworking and More
Bethany Sy chronicles on her blog the journey she and her husband have taken in woodworking, DIY and parenting.
Reader's Project Gallery
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Pinewood Derby Tractor
This reader’s son’s Pinewood Derby “car” may not necessarily be built for speed, but it’s still ready to plow through the competition.
Plan Library
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Making an Artist’s Pencil Box
This project, originally featured in Today’s Woodworker back in 1994, will make a perfect gift for an aspiring young artist. The design holds a collection of pencils and an eraser, and the top locks everything in place.
eZine Latest Issue
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The Call of the Wild (or Lunch)
Rob reflects on an annual bass fishing trip — which may (or may not) be enhanced by his hand-turned lures.
Magazine Latest Issue
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Woodworker’s Journal – May/June 2017 Issue Preview
As spring turns to summer, the May/June issue of Woodworker’s Journal looks to the outdoors, with projects ranging from a relaxing Porch Swing to a turned Birdhouse.
Feedback
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Woodworkers’ Steps to Health
eZine readers react to Rob’s plan to shrink his waist size through a 10,000-step program.
eZine Editorial
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Hardware Show Showdown!
Rob attends the National Hardware Show, and finds a unique product from a mom-and-pop company.
Issue Information
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Woodworker’s Journal – March/April 2017 Issue Preview
The March/April issue of Woodworker’s Journal takes on projects for your home head-on.
More on the Web
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VIDEO: Behind the Scenes of Our Midi and Mini Lathe Review
Have you ever wondered what happens when we review tools in the magazine? Ernie Conover gives you a peak behind the camera as he discusses his review of Midi and Mini Lathes.
Trade Shows
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Axiom Pro Series CNC Machines
Take a closer look at the precision design and components that go into the Axiom Pro Series CNC machines.
Issue Preview
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May/June 2017 Issue Preview
As spring turns to summer, the May/June issue of Woodworker’s Journal looks to the outdoors, with projects ranging from a relaxing Porch Swing to a turned Birdhouse.
Readers' Projects
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From Oak Trees … to Lumber … to Projects
Herb Brodie builds woodworking projects from oak trees downed on his property: trees to lumber. Click through to read more…
Not yet categorized
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VIDEO: Plow Planes
Ernie Conover introduces you to plow planes. You learn how to set up and correctly use a plow plane to cut grooves for drawers and panels.
AWFS 2015
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American Fabric Filter – AWFS 2015
Get the best performance from your dust collector by upgrading to a custom filter bag.
Premium Content
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PROJECT: Building a Graceful Bar Cart
This elegant and convenient cart can be used for entertaining your favorite people. Whether you are serving tea, wine, cocktails or cookies, you’ll find it helpful. Its top tray is removable for easy serving and cleaning.
Woodworker's Journal Back Issue Archive
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Woodworker’s Journal – May/June 2017
Projects Include: Porch Swing, Hanging Herb Garden, Barrel-shaped Birdhouse, Graceful Bar Cart and Dehumidification Kiln.
Premium Plans
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PROJECT: Summer Porch Swing
A contoured seat and back, plus cup holders on each arm, make this relaxed two-seater a comfortable place to enjoy a cool drink.
IWF 2016
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Grex Nail Gun Guide
Grex introduces a new 23 gauge pin nail gun and adjustable edge guide accessory. The guide makes it easy to consistently drive pin nails or brad nails a consistent distance from the edge of a workpiece and in a straight line.
