Broken joints don’t mean broken furniture. With the right approach, you can repair failed joinery invisibly, restoring structural integrity while leaving no evidence of the...

More clamp pressure isn’t always better. This counterintuitive truth escapes many woodworkers who assume that if some pressure is good, maximum pressure must be optimal....

Walk into any hardware store and you’ll face a shelf of Titebond bottles, each promising to be the right glue for some application. Original, II,...

The router transforms from spinning terror to precision joinery tool once you master jigs. Dadoes, rabbets, and box joints all become repeatable, accurate, and fast...

Hand-cut dovetails mark you as a woodworker who understands the craft at its deepest level. Machines can cut dovetails faster, routers can make them more...

A tree becomes lumber through a progression most woodworkers never witness. Understanding this journey transforms how you see every board in your shop. From log...

Rough lumber becomes precision stock through a specific sequence of operations. Skip a step or rearrange the order, and you’ll chase errors throughout your project....

That rough lumber you just hauled home is probably twisted, cupped, bowed, or some combination of all three. This isn’t a defect; it’s normal. Wood...

Walking into a hardwood dealer for the first time intimidates most woodworkers. The stacks of rough lumber look nothing like the clean boards at home...

Before you cut a joint, read the wood. Every board tells a story in its grain pattern, and that story predicts how the wood will...