Woodworking made easy
After spending most of your weekends making projects for your friends and family, you may find yourself being inclined to take this hobby to a new level and perhaps finally making a profit from buying all your mobile power tools. To do this, you would need to begin looking at investing more money into some […]
In our previous article, we discussed how building your router into a router table turning it into a spindle moulder can improve your ability to cut mouldings and grooves in boards with ease and accuracy. Some changes and improvements can be made without the need to invest as much time and finances into building and […]
Just like the name implies, the McGyver Series is for the woodworker wishing to increase the reach of their current power tools without having to buy new hands. In this segment, we will be focusing on affordable and efficient ways to get your drill to do more than just drill holes. Turn Your Drill Into […]
Whether you are woodturning on a lathe or making a lazy susan, understanding exactly where the center is of a wood piece is critical. This is why there are so many different traditional methods of finding these center points, this problem has been in existence since the very beginning. We discussed some of these techniques […]
Planning your projects is the best way to ensure that you limit mistakes, costs, and wasted time on problems that could have been perceived which is just a little bit of calculation. More than that, we all want to have a visual representation of our projects before we go ahead and execute them. Not all […]
Over the years, as woodworkers, we find ourselves learning a few things along the way. Some of these lessons are given to us kindly by nature and others hurt our bodies and more often than not, also find a way to dig really deep holes in our wallets. One such lesson has been the age-old […]
Osmo is known in Germany as the brand of the most popular wood finishes with a quality unmatched by any other product currently available. Osmo offers a natural and environmentally friendly alternative to wood finishing. These finishing oils, solvents, and coatings are based on rapidly renewable, natural vegetable oils that penetrate deeply into the wood, […]
For many years, weekend woodworkers and Destroy It Yourself-ers have had to settle with owning circular saw with universal guide rails, simply because our weekend hobby did not justify spending an arm and a leg on “the best machine available” – especially when we know that this machine will probably only be barely used on […]
The concept of wood moisture and its importance thereof is an often greatly overlooked aspect of woodworking that is simply too important to look past. Moisture causes the wood to shrink and expand. There will always be some changes with the season, but the largest amount of shrinkage happens when the lumber is drying from […]
Jigs take a lot of time, planning, and material to make. Often we can find ourselves spending more time making tools than actually using tools to make completed pieces of work. Paradoxically though, one is rightfully wary of spending money on just about any jig which comes into the market especially because many of these […]
Getting a table saw or a plunge saw as one of your first purchases is usually a dream for a beginner or weekend woodworker who cannot justify the often highly exorbitant cost of purchasing any of these. Especially when one begins to consider the ramifications of buying a low-cost machine that will most likely become […]
Shou Sugi Ban is the traditional Japanese method of preserving wood by charring the surface to create a waterproof finish through carbonisation. Shou Sugi Ban is the traditional Japanese method for preserving wood by charring the surface to bring about carbonisation. This carbonisation process protects the wood against insect attack and creates a waterproof barrier […]
