- How-To
- Woodworking Skills
- Project Design
- Milling
- Cutting
- Drilling
- Shaping
- Joining and Fastening
- Gluing and Clamping
- Finishing
- Installing Hardware
- Making Repairs
- Tips and Techniques
- Woodturning
- Tricks of the Trade
- Workshop Organization and Storage
- Jigs and Tools
- Safety
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How-To
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PROJECT: Reversible Gameboard
Here’s two gameboards in one, with a slide-out tray in between that stores a deck of cards, cribbage pegs and mancala playing pieces.
Woodworking Skills
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Frequently Asked Finishing Questions
Our expert takes on some of the questions that have arisen in response to previous finishing article topics.
Project Design
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PROJECT: Pizza Peel Plan
Making a pizza peel does not require a lot of wood, so it’s a perfect project to feature some highly figured pieces. And it makes a great gift for the pizza lover in your life.
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: Holiday Spheres
Cut decorative hollow spheres on your scroll saw, then sand them to shape on the drill press.
Drilling
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Drilling Holes: Five Fast Facts
Drilling holes is a task that every woodworker must do. But boring a hole and getting a good result can be two entirely different things.
Shaping
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PROJECT: Past-to-Present Doll Cradle
Hardwood construction updates a project modeled on a vintage piece.
Joining and Fastening
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How to Handcut Dovetail Joints
Learn this simple process for making handcut dovetails joints.
Gluing and Clamping
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Veneering with a Vacuum Pump
A vacuum pump and veneer bag is a fully portable system that can be used anywhere. Here, learn some simple veneering techniques.
Finishing
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Finishing Outdoor Furniture
Our expert presents several options for exterior finishes – including leaving the wood au naturel.
Installing Hardware
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Installing a Router Lift
A shop-made template, scrap shims and a single router bit make the task precise and easy.
Making Repairs
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Sharpening Your Tools: Five Fast Facts
Sharpening is a topic that can evoke controversy and discussion, but here are a few concepts to help you stay sharp.
Tips and Techniques
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Making a Sturdier Shop Vacuum System
Tired of dragging around (and tipping) both his shop vac and Dust Deputy, this reader built a cart to keep his vacuum system together.
Woodturning
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GluBoost Adhesive Products
This flexible CA glue adds new finishing options with a long open time plus instant solidification when sprayed with an accelerator.
Tricks of the Trade
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Keeping Arbor Nuts At-the-ready
This reader came up with a handy way to keep track of his arbor nuts between blade swaps on his table saw.
Workshop Organization and Storage
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PROJECT: Table Saw Outfeed Table
Taking advantage of some great lumber and highly functional hardware, maker Matt Cremona creates a multipurpose super shop helper!
Jigs and Tools
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VIDEO: Cordless Compact Router Overview
Do you need a cordless router? Learn how to choose the best compact cordless router for your shop. Chris Marshall takes a closer look at cordless routers from Makita, Bosch, Ridgid, and Ryobi.
Safety
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VIDEO: How to Tune Up and Maintain Your Band Saw
You’ll learn how to change a band saw blade, clean a band saw, tension a band saw blade, adjust the band saw blade tracking, adjust the band saw upper and lower blades guides, and test the band saw cutting.
Tools & Supplies
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TRUE BLUE® Combination Squares
Three sizes of updated combination squares feature stainless steel rules, precision milled heads and an improved blade lock for faster adjustments.
What's In Store
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RYOBI One Plus+ Brushless Jigsaw
A brushless motor, tool-free bevel settings, variable-speed control and an LED worklight combine to make this jigsaw a feature-rich cutting tool.
Tool Reviews
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Cordless Drill/Driver 101
Whether you’re primarily a woodworker or dabble in DIY, too, most projects require drilling holes and driving fasteners. Here’s a guide to choosing your first — or next — drill /driver.
Industry Interviews
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Make a Holiday Gift at Rockler
Handmade gifts are best. Give something you’ve crafted yourself this holiday season — classes at Rockler stores this Saturday, Dec. 1, can help!
Blogs
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60,000 Toys from St. Louis Woodworker’s Guild
St. Louis Woodworkers Guild hosts Toy Build for charity at Rockler store befittingToys for Tots and Bring Me A Book St. Louis.
Q & A
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Why Different Flush-trim Bit Diameters?
I’m planning to buy a flush-trim router bit, but I don’t know why they are offered in different diameters if they all basically do the same thing.
Editor's Blogs
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Great Gift Ideas for Woodworkers
If you’re needing gift ideas for a woodworker this upcoming holiday season, Rockler has 10 suggestions, including subscribing to an award-winning magazine.
Contributing Bloggers
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Found Wood in the Arizona Desert
An Arizona woodturner finds an abundant supply of woods in the desert state.
Today's Woodworker
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Melissa Engler: Sculptures on Nature
Melissa Engler’s sculptural woodwork focuses on the world of nature and her desire to protect it.
Reader's Project Gallery
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White Oak Shower Seat
This reader turns to woodworking for a practical solution to his father’s problem, and ends up with a unique (and less expensive) answer.
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.
Weekly Latest Issue
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A River in Egypt
Rob’s holiday gift projects this year are more theoretical than corporeal.
Magazine Latest Issue
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Saw Guard Safety
In response to a question from the print Woodworker’s Journal, readers share whether they do or don’t use the guards on their table saw — and how their approach to safety is different now than it was “back then.”
Feedback
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See Your Mistakes? Keep Your Mouth Shut
Readers talk about how well they see the flaws in their own woodworking projects — even if no one else does.
Weekly Editorial
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No One Will See It
Do you see all the tiny errors in your woodworking? No one else does.
Issue Information
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November/December 2018 Issue Preview
You’ll find great gift ideas showcased in the projects found in the November/December issue.
More on the Web
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Reader Dan Martin’s Shop-made Blade Guard/Hold-down
Reader Dan Martin made his own table saw blade guard for a Powermatic 66 saw. The guard includes a dust collection system and doubles as a great hold-down as well. See it in action in this reader submitted video.
Trade Shows
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Titebond Expert Discusses Chemistry of, Uses for Quick and Thick Glue
Bob Behnke, technical service manager for Titebond, shares the chemistry and best uses for Titebond’s newest PVA wood glue option, Quick and Thick.
Issue Preview
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September/October 2018 Issue Preview
The September/October issue of Woodworker’s Journal is full of information about your favorite hobby.
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: Half-Blind Dovetails – Cutting the Pins
How to mark drawer parts for half-blind dovetails. You’ll learn how mark the depth of the dovetails and lay out the pins for both the front and back of the drawer box.
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: Pizza Cutter
This pizza cutter project makes a perfect gift for the pizza lover in your life. Turn your own handle, then just add the blade kit from Rockler!
Woodworker's Journal Back Issue Archive
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Woodworker’s Journal – November/December 2018
This issue includes plans for a reversible game board, Limbert desk, holiday spheres, doll cradle and small kitchen projects, along with an earing turning tutorial and information on routers.
Premium Plans
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PROJECT: Continuous Grain Taco Holder
A clever jig and a router will help you create your own version of this handy, easy-to-make and food-safe taco holder, sure to be a hit at your dinner table.
IWF 2016
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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.
AWFS 2017
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SuperMax Tools Launches 16-32 Drum Sander
Sporting a patented Quick Adjust Lever that raises and lowers the drum assembly without cranking, a built-in digital readout and newly designed turbo vented dust port to increase dust collection efficiency, SuperMax’s new 16-32 model will sand panels or slabs up to 32 in. wide in two passes.
Gift Project Plans
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PROJECT: Simple Knife Block
Here’s an easy-to-build, one-day shop project to protect your favorite kitchen accessories. Use up some leftover wood and save the edges on your kitchen knives!
