Project Design
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PROJECT: Turning a Coopered Birdhouse
Learn the barrel-making coopering technique and create a home for your feathered friends
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PROJECT: Classic Coatrack
A technique made for tricksters: reverse inlay makes it appear that the thinner, light-colored strips are inlaid into a walnut column — but, in reality, it’s the reverse.
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VIDEO: How to Make a Pizza Peel
In this woodworking project video we show you how to make a beautiful pizza peel. This is an easy woodworking project that you can complete in an afternoon.
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Maker Spotlight: April Wilkerson, Frank Howarth and Matt Cremona
Our latest look into some of our favorite online woodworkers and some of their projects we’ve been checking out.
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VIDEO: Tripod Lamp Construction
Want a piece of trendy furniture, but don’t want to spend trendy furniture prices? Kristena Smith and Rob Johnstone show you the hardware, tools and techniques you need to make a tripod floor lamp in no time.
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VIDEO: Making a Carving Chisel Tool Till
Ernie Conover explains the process he used to design and build the Five-Drawer Carving Chisel Tool Till project from the January/February 2018 issue of Woodworker’s Journal.
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VIDEO: A Visit to the Mao Shan Hongmu Museum
Woodworker’s Journal’s Chris Marshall talks to master craftsman Yang Jin Rong about how his Ming Dynasty reproduction chair design has evolved during a tour of the Mao Shan Arts Museum near Nanjing, China.
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Using Poplar as a Cherry Trim Substitute
When this reader couldn’t come up with a cherry trim for his family room, he got some surprising results from a cheaper option: poplar.
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PROJECT: Five Drawer Tool Chest Till
Interior drawer dividers create storage spaces for your tools, while partitions slid into dadoes in the carcass support the drawers themselves.
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PROJECT: Natural Live-Edge Box
This elegant little box was designed to show off a lovely piece of wood the author found on its way to a sad fate.
