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A cupola gives your house or garage more elegance and architectural interest. You can construct the project solely for cosmetic purposes or you can carve a hole in the roof to allow ventilation, which can lower cooling expenses. This woodworking design includes instructions, exploded view diagrams, and full-size drawings for the projects.
Here is a quality tool that offers accuracy plus the beauty of walnut and brass. It also makes a great gift.
Tired of muscling your tools around the shop when you need to use them or clean around them? If so, try this money and back-saving solutionâa four-wheeled tool base for moving heavy woodworking machin...
Airborne debris does not stand a chance with this device. Wood chips and sawdust will not stay around long when you hook up this clamp-down collector to your shop vacuum or dust collection system.
After assembling this little gem, you may be tempted to place it in a display case. But go ahead and put it to work. This sturdy plane will do wonders in your shop. This eye-catching tool will fit comfortably in the palm of your hand while rendering years of quality service.
Build an heirloomâquality tool using just scraps and an 11 dollar plane iron. There is a certain satisfaction that comes from using a tool you made yourself. And when it is as easy and inexpensive to make as this plane, you will find yourself reaching for it again and again.
Attention all tablesaw owners! Now is your chance to make some big improvements in your equipment for just a few dollars. By investing as few as a couple of evenings, you can enclose the base, add an ...
If ever a sanding block was a work of art, this is it. Supple to the touch and easy on the eyes, it will serve you well for many years to come.
This heirloom-quality walnut and maple strip sander is the perfect tool for detail work, like cleaning cabinet joinery. It lets you sand right up to an edge or corner, and leaves the smoothest surface...
Couple your mitersaw to this easy-to-build, affordable project and increase your tools cutting capacity, accuracy, and safety, guaranteed! Overall dimensions 48 inches wide (121 inches wide fully extended), 20 inches deep, and 6.5 inches high.
Our comfortable, good-looking tool is easy to build, and its adjustable blade makes getting into tight corners a snap.
Is time of the essence in your shop? Even the precious few seconds wasted while holding an orbital sander until its pad quits spinning can add up. To remedy this, build this benchtop sander rest.
When a project requires thin stock, our portable planer saves us the time and trouble of having to special-order material. But, having to lift it onto my workbench every time we need it can be a backb...
Finally, the ultimate mitersaw center has arrived. This sturdy plywood unit rolls around and locks in place where needed. Fold-down table extensions let you manage long pieces for crosscutting. And th...
Whether you need to rough-cut a board to length or make a precise compound cut in a workpiece, this work station, coupled with your 10 or 12 inch mitersaw, will ensure great results. Large tables flan...
A beveled wall cleat system works great for supporting more than cabinets and tool racks. This easy-to-build light support fits and locks onto the same cleat, and can be located near any number of machine operations.
We built this sturdy mitersaw stand 24 inches deep to accommodate a 12 inch compound mitersaw. If you have a 10 inch saw, you can make the stand as shallow as 18 inches. Be sure to measure your saw be...
Clamp it to your workbench or drill press and you have the perfect cleaner-upper. Or, set it on the floor and sweep in the debris for easy pick up.
Instead of fooling around with makeshift measuring and marking methods, count on this accurate, heirloom-quality gauge for layout help. Use it now, and eventually you can pass it on with pride.
Short on work space? Try this compact project. Spread the legs for a stable support when cutting bulky pieces of sheet goods. Then, simply fold it up and stow it away for use later.
Build this fine-line marking knife. Nothing beats a crisp scribed line for accurate layout. When not in use, a hidden magnet keeps the blade sheathed safely in place. With the flat back of its blade a...
Our handy folding fixture adds only inches to your saw when stored, but provides you with more than 3 feet of stock support beyond the blade for safer and more convenient cutting. This fixture attache...
Whenever a project calls for accurate layout lines and precisely marked measurements, lots of experienced woodworkers put away the pencil and reach for a scratch awl. Somehow, you just feel more like ...
We tested several prototypes before settling on this L-shaped table coupled with a pair of firm fences and hold-down clamps. This setup will allow you to perform numerous machining processes with impr...
A length stop on your radial-arm saw fence makes repetitive cut more accurate. But short pieces can get trapped between the blade and stop, damaging them or launching them back at you. To prevent this, build this pivoting stopblock.
Keep reference material close at hand with this two-project setup. Simply swing the table up when you need to make notes. The upper cabinet has a drop-down door. Just pull up a stool and you have crea...
Clear the air in your workshop with these easy-to-make projects. The less dust floating around in your workshop, the better. Not only does your shop stay cleaner, but, more importantly, your lungs sta...
Looking to add even more functionality to your drill-press table? Consider this dust-collecting system that channels fine dust to a vacuum hose during sanding-drum operations.
In designing and outfitting WOOD Magazines Idea Shop 3 basement shop with a cyclone dust collector, we had several objectives in mind. We wanted a space-efficient unit with minimal noise, dust-free co...
Here is a great use for those prized wood scraps you stashed away for just the right project. Our compass incorporates an ingenious clamping system that holds a standard pencil (hexagonal or round) an...