Inspire and Empower Beginner Woodworkers
A mistake I made in a recent woodworking project had me looking for the best way to hide pocket holes. Long story short, as part of my farmhouse kitchen table project, I was making a tabletop by edge-joining multiple boards using glue and pocket screws. [read more …]
A few of years ago, our kids’ bedroom door suddenly started rubbing against the top of the frame when closing. It was a summer season when the door suddenly started sticking to the frame like that. As any self-respecting dad would do under the circumstances, [read more …]
It’s not uncommon to find yucky, sticky sap or resin oozing out of lumber that you’ve just bought from the store for a woodworking project. Sap is especially common in lumber from spruce, pine, and fir (SPF) trees, the most common type of lumber found [read more …]
I was making a work station for my miter saw, and wanted the station to have a stop block sliding along a t-track. T-tracks are typically inserted into the a straight “groove” or “channel”, called dado, cut into the top surface wood on a miter [read more …]