Furniture & Cabinetmaking

Woodwork router cutting perfect dovetail joint.
Furniture & Cabinetmaking

Router Housing Jig

We show details of the essential housing jig that you will need in your collection. You can use a router

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Close-up of ornate antique golden box with red patterns.
Furniture & Cabinetmaking

Restoring Decorative Woodwork

Amber Bailey reflects on the benefits of adding decorative metalwork to wood. Natural glue for metal Historically, fish glue has

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Wood router cutting grooves in a wooden plank.
Furniture & Cabinetmaking

Routing Problems

We turn to those routing difficulties that keep coming around again and again. We turn to those routing difficulties that keep

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Woodworker using a hand planer on a wooden plank.
Furniture & Cabinetmaking

Making a Bench Hook

In the 1970s, I attended what was then called a building school, and learned all the finer points of woodworking

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Woodworking jointer machine in a workshop setting.
Furniture & Cabinetmaking

How to Tune-Up a Jointer

Rob Porcaro shares some handy tips for tuning your jointer. Jointer parallelism After writing blog posts on jointer-planer combination machines,

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Ornate commode table and candle stands, 18th-century design illustration.
Furniture & Cabinetmaking

Insta Chippendale’s Director

Steve Bisco looks at the man and the book that transformed 18th-century cabinetmaking and carved ornament. This year sees the

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Woodworker examining hand planes in workshop.
Furniture & Cabinetmaking

Making a Beaded Plane Rack

Charles Mak shares some of his beading techniques while adding an ornamental detail to his new tool rack. We woodworkers

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