Wood joints
How to make a bookshelf with a melamine board
Let's see how to use a doweling jig to make a bookshelf with a melamine board.
This curious accessory serves as a drilling guide to...
My first time bending wood
To make this odd wood joint I had to bend a small strip of wood. And I confess that this is the first time...
How to assemble with screws and make a wood structure
Sometimes we need to make a wooden structure quickly and without too much complications, and in these cases the wooden mortise and tenon joints...
How to make a wooden window frame
A few months ago I was asked for if I could make a wooden window for a shed. It would be a wooden window...
Impossible dovetail joint with curved pins and tails
Let's see how to make a curved dovetail joint on the router table. A variant I came up with to make from the typical...
I make dowel joints with the help of the drill press
In this post you can watch two woodworking videos. In the first one, I show the technique to make joints with dowels, described in...
Miter sled to cut miter joints with the table saw
Making 45-degree miter joints seems pretty straightforward, and it's the type of wood joint we think of for many of our woodworking projects. But...
Mortising on the drill press without mortise attachment
To make mortises to make mortise and tenon woodworking joints we have several options, from using a mortising machine, to using a router table,...
How to cut tenons on the jigsaw table
There are many ways to cut tenons to make a mortise and tenon joint to make some piece of furniture. By hand or with...
How to make tongue and groove without router bit set
In the previous post we saw how to make the jig for routing tongue and groove joints with the plunge router. On that occasion...
How to make a tongue and groove jig for plunge router
We could make tongue and groove boards with a router table and a special tongue and groove router bit set that is ready to...
Vertical clamping and drilling jig for drill press
Sometimes, in our small woodworking shops we need to come up with how to drill into the head of wood strips. For example to...
How to cut a box joint with hand tools, part 2
We saw in a previous post how to cut on the first board the straight pins and sockets of the box joint. Now I...
How to make a box joint using hand tools, part 1
Sometimes we call them finger joints, but I guess those are other type of wood joints and that the actual name of what I...
Wood support for climbing garden plants
A few years ago we planted a climbing plant in the garden, specifically a beautiful wisteria. Fortunately this climbing plant does not grow too...
Making a display case for queimada earthenware pot
When my parents had the rural house here in Galicia, I had to spend a couple of summers attending to the visitors we had,...
Tenon jig for router table
Now that I have "fixed" the side fence of my router table, I can already route on the end of the wood strips without...
Makeshift jig to reinforce miter joints with splines
After failing to reinforce the miter joints of the cabinet door with dowels, I thought of cutting slots in the corners and inserting well-glued...
How to cut grooves to attach drawers bottom on the table saw
The simplest option for cutting grooves for drawer bottoms or other parts of furniture is usually to use the router table with a slot...
How to make dovetail joints on the route table
After the first experiment and errors cutting a dovetail joint, I tried cutting the tails with the router table in hardwood. The result of...
Fail cutting a dovetail joint with a hand saw
I had never seriously attempted to cut a dovetail joint before, since I don’t usually make many drawers, small chests, or other items where...
DIY wooden planter box made with pallets
To make this pallet wood planter for the garden, I didn't just use pallet wood; I also used a pine board I had in...
Circular saw guide for miter cuts and miter joints
Making 45º or miter cuts and joints doesn't seem very difficult. After all, what could go wrong? Well, pretty much everything. You need to...
Wooden frame for workshop table
I think one of the important things to build for the workshop is a wooden work table, either to use as a workbench or...
How to make a small board of reclaimed wood
To make the seat board of the stool, I intended to buy a strip board. But as I mentioned before, I ended up making...