Every project needs a plan. Working projects are no exception the more complicated a project it is the more important the plans are is extremely important to get the dimensions correct. Without a good set of plans your project can easily turn out either too big or too small and visually unappealing. Woodworker Plans Review [...]
From the monthly archives:
January 2011
So you’re thinking about getting into woodworking as a hobby. Today in most any metropolitan area you can find wood shops that are, like clubs, you can pay a monthly fee or in some cases by the hour they generally have a full line of woodworking tools. This can be a great way for you [...]
Woodworking can be an expensive hobby no question about it just take a look through any woodworking tool catalog and you can see exactly what I mean. Now take a step back in time think about all the extremely high quality furniture that was made before electricity. With a lot of patience and a nice [...]
One quick easy and rather inexpensive way to give your kitchen cabinets a new look is to replace the hardware to some this may seem like a daunting task but it is really quite easy many knobs and handles utilize the same mounting screw spacing so that they can be easily interchanged, take one of-year-old [...]
Today when you bring up Pine as they would for making furniture to most people they think of the typical pine lumber found at many home improvement stores, this new pine is nothing like the old old-growth pine that was harvested in the late 1800. The old-growth pine was dense and made excellent furniture. A [...]
One of the best ways to help ensure that your woodworking project comes out as planned is to have a good set of plans before you start, I realize that there are talented individuals out there they can wing it over most of us we need to start with a good set of plans. The [...]
Maybe one of the reasons that woodworking is such a large hobby could be that it is so diversified, just take a look at all of the items around you that are made from wood. A woodworker may be interested in creating fine handcrafted furniture, kitchen cabinets or maybe they’re more into turning wood projects [...]
When I was growing up my father did woodworking, of course as a kid I had little interest in his hobby but as I’ve grown older I’ve become more and more interested in woodworking to the point now that I actually make my living working with wood. Now that I have children they have little [...]
As a woodworker one of the joys size actually building a project is seeing individuals actually use something we produced. Constructing a chair, in the beginning can seem like an extremely simple project but as you delve further into the construction process in the design process you soon realize that it is more complicated than [...]
