Woodworking
How I thickness boards wider than my homemade thickness planer
Many of you who have seen how I made my homemade thickness planer with an electric wood planer ask me how to plane wood...
How to change and adjust the blades of an electric planer
When we want to change the blades of an electric planer, we first have to look at how is the blade holder system of...
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...
How to make a wooden choker with a wood hoop
After making a wooden hoop to test out how the circle cutting jig works, I thought it is a shame to do nothing with...
How to make a wooden hoop
For some of our DIY projects with wood we may need to make a hoop, something that can be quite tricky if we try...
How to find the center of a cylinder
Finding the center of a circle drawn on paper is quite easy using different drawing techniques. But when that circle is the face of...
Problems and solution using wooden bar clamps
It's been a while since I made the long wooden clamps and I've used them in a few projects, but the truth is that,...
How to cut circles out of wood with a jigsaw table
Cutting a circle of wood by hand is often tricky, although the tests I have done so far with this jigsaw table have been...
A fence to make straight cuts with the jigsaw table
When I installed the support with bearings to keep the jigsaw blade vertical on my homemade jigsaw table, I didn't worry about not having...
Dangerous kickback of the circular saw
When we begin with our woodworking hobby we are aware that the DIY electrical tools we are going to use can be dangerous.
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Changing the belt and blades of an electric planer
My old electric planer has been unused for a lot of years, stored in a corner of the workshop. And a few days ago,...
Make a DIY disc sander with a horizontal drill stand
If you follow my woodworking and diy blog and my YouTube channel you will have already seen my drill lathe in disc sander mode....
Curved cuts with the diy jigsaw table
Many of you ask me about the possibility of making curved cuts with the diy table jigsaw, the one I made by attaching the...
Cheap and easy to make DIY wood vise for workbench
Let's see how to make a wooden vise for the workbench that will be very cheap. This DIY vise is very easy to make...
How to make a cutting table for the circular saw
Normally, to cut a wide board or a plank with the circular saw, I place it on the workbench overhanging one side and 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 garden hose holder, part 1: the support
I always thought that a hose holder to hang the garden hose was something that would be more decorative than useful, since surely after...
Cutting and routing a molding in the edge of a wood board
To make a somewhat complicated molding in the edge of a board, like the one in the picture, we have basically the same problems...
Simple wall mount for outdoor thermometer
Sometimes a simple easy to make woodworking project is great to relax a bit the pressure of publishing at least one video every week,...
How to make wood gears of plywood
I can't really imagine making wood gears for anything other than some of the woodworking machines like those made by Matthias Wandel, to make...
How to make a wall coat rack using curtain finials
After making the display case that looks like a Galician "hĆ³rreo" (a typical smal granary raised above the ground on stone columns), I thought...
Makeshift jig support for cutting small pieces on the miter saw
The miter saw is maybe not the most dangerous machine in the shop, but like with all the electric tools in the woodworking shop,...
How to route letters in wood freehand without templates
To carve letters and make beautiful wooden signs there are several methods: from hand carving, through using templates for routing machines, and even using...
How to grind and flatten the sole of a Stanley rebate plane
When I got this Stanley rebate plane as a gift and noticed the sole, my first thought was that I should grind it. I...