Project Design
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Project: Mission Oak Knockdown Desk
Inspired by designs from 1910, our author built these knockdown desks for his daughters as they headed off to college. They save space and are easy to assemble and disassemble by college kids on the move!
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PROJECT: Making a Guitar-Shaped Wireless Speaker Box
These guitar-shaped wireless speaker boxes are fun to make and even more fun to give as gifts. You can probably make one with scraps you have in your shop.
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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.
