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Want to go beyond rectangular furniture legs — but don’t know how? Here’s an amazing tip for making octagonal legs on the table saw with no math and no measuring. First, mill your legs ...

Woodworking is an immensely fulfilling activity. But it can also be immensely dangerous — if you don’t take the right precautions. Think about it. In the shop, you’re constantly workin...

Tell me this isn’t frustrating: You spend hours getting the surfaces and joinery of a project perfect. You get through the stress of glue-up with no major catastrophes. Your assembled p...

The first time you go to a hardwood lumber yard, you’ll realize things work very differently from how they do at the big box store. Boards aren’t organized by length, there aren’t conve...

Embedding magnets in wood isn’t hard — but there’s definitely a right way to do it. And boy howdy, have I learned the hard way. I used to make the original Katz-Moses Dovetail Jigs out ...

Template routing is one of my favorite ways to cut complex or curved parts… But sadly, size does matter. The size of your flush trim bit can seem like a big limitation in what you can t...

To get the best results template routing, you need to cut your workpiece as close to the template as possible. I aim to get within 1/16” of the template — which not only ensures a safer...

One of the most common questions I get (not related to my hair routine) is how do you layout perfectly spaced and even dovetails? At first glance, it might look like a matter of divisio...

Hand saws are great for quick and dirty crosscuts. But how can you make them more efficient? The answer lies in workholding — that is, how you keep the board steady while you cut it. A ...