Simple Router Table
Easy to make, easy to store. While many woodworkers spend weekends making stationary router tables, mine have always been very simple, driven by expediency, and the desire to get other…
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Workshop
AI in the Shop, Part 2: The Digital Floor Plan Fiasco
In our last conversation, we explored AI’s ability – or lack thereof – to help us visualize furniture appearance for ourselves or our customers during the planning and design process….
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Theory of Evolution
All living things evolve, and so do woodshops. No matter where I’ve lived, I’ve changed my shop around — relocating cabinets or shelves, changing one work area to another, adding to the infrastructure, etc. All of my older shops were …
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The ‘Ultimate’ Hand Tool Shop
Perfection doesn’t exist. But you can come close. One of the first things any beginning woodworker must do is set up a workshop. Like so many other things a novice woodworker must do, the preparation of a workshop shapes …
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Table Saw Extension
There’s not enough room in my garage shop for a tablesaw with a 52-in.-capacity rip fence. But no worries—I don’t need one! To make wide cuts, I simply install a shop-made extension that bridges my saw to the wall—and doubles …
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Build Furniture Without a Shop
A few tools can go a long way. When you get started in woodworking there are many paths to follow, forks in the road, dead-ends and shortcuts. It’s a journey that our forebears would make with the help of a …
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