Cherry Wine Cabinet: Our senior editor clocks some hours on his Leigh D4R Pro Dovetail Jig to produce a Krenov-inspired chest-on-legs that’s ideal for storing your favorite wines.
Simple Bookcase: Measuring and cutting parts, then assembling them with a variety of joinery, isn’t just for entry-level woodworking projects — these are commonplace tasks for everything we build. This straightforward but attractive bookcase will help you put those bread-and-butter woodworking skills through their paces.
Timber and Epoxy Table: If you haven’t yet tried your hand at the “river pour” table craze, our publisher submerges a piece of rough-around-the-edges maple into a bath of Timber Cast Deep-pour Epoxy Resin and shares his experiences. Lessons were learned!
Traditional Spoon Carving: An axe and a couple of carving knives are all the tools you’ll need to fashion hand-made wooden spoons in the Swedish sloyd tradition. A Minneapolis-area carving expert shows us the ropes.
Woodturning: Texturizing can take your faceplate or spindle turnings from dull to dazzling. Our expert reviews these techniques and offers words of wisdom about each.
Tool Tutorial: A.J. Hamler will help you navigate the important features when choosing or building a router table. It’s an accessory that can maximize a router’s full potential.
Tool Preview: Take a sneak peek at SKIL’s brand new mid-size router, outfitted with a digital display and both fixed and plunge bases.
Hardworking Woods: Much revered, particularly in the Arts & Crafts furniture world, white oak is heavy and tough as nails but surprisingly easy to work. In quartersawn form, it’s medullary rays can be dazzling.
Finishing Corner: Expert finisher Tim Inman and our staff answer your often-asked finishing questions.
Getting Started: This new department for newbies will examine woodworking fundamentals. We kick off the discussion with an overview of why you need to make and follow a material list.
Buying Lumber: Knowing how to estimate lumber volumetrically isn’t difficult, once you understand a couple of straightforward formulas. Using them correctly can save you from both miscalculations and overspending at the lumberyard.
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