Woodworking
How to make an Adirondack chair for the garden
The Adirondack chair is a garden chair that was originally designed and manufactured by Thomas Lee. He was looking for a comfortable chair for...
How to assemble an Adirondack chair
Once we have finished making all the pieces of the Adirondack chair, it is time to assemble the chair. And although the plans to...
How to use Adirondack chair woodworking templates
In a previous post we saw how to make the woodworking templates from the Adirondack chair plans. Those plans were on paper at 1:1...
How to make woodworking templates from Adirondack chair plans
A few days ago I bought some plans of an Adirondack chair, which is a really nice and really comfortable garden chair. These typical...
Homemade drill powered disc sander
After trying to make a disc sander by connecting the sanding disc shaft directly to the drill chuck, and seeing that it wasn't a...
How to make simple wooden windows
Now that I have already made the wooden frame for the window, let's watch a simple method for making simple wooden windows. That is,...
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...
How to put flat panels and installation of cabinet doors
In the previous post we saw how to make simple doors for the workshop base cabinet. They are for a large base cabinet in...
How to make doors for a workshop base cabinet
In the following video we can see the complete process that I followed to make these wooden base cabinet doors. In the next post...
How to make a wooden lamp with hangers
To see the whole process on how to make the wooden lamp shade using hangers do not miss the videos. In the first video...
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...
Leonardo Da Vinci’s self-supporting bridge
From children to adults, Leonardo Da Vinci's inventions always catch everyone's attention. Not only because of the thing he intended to achieve in the...
How to cut wood for a woodworking project
When we have to cut the wood that we need to make our woodworking projects, we are often concerned about the precision with which...
10 homemade woodworking jigs explained step-by-step
In our home woodworking shop we may have many power tools or hand tools, of poorer or better quality, but if we want to...
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...
How to make a wooden mallet
In the previous posts we saw how to cut a wooden tenon with the jigsaw table and how to make a mortise with the...
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...
I sharpen and try out an antique molding plane
Some time ago I bought a molding plane in an antique shop. It is one of those woodworking planes with a molding shape at...
New woodworking and do-it-yourself blog
Well, after so much time wanting to make some change in the blog, finally here is the new website of this woodworking and diy...
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 make a drill press table with pivoting fence
I wasn't planning to make a table for the drill press because, like many other things that later surprised me in my small woodworking...