Great Rockler projects for brand-new woodworkers
You just make speaker boxes any way you know how, in any type of wood or plywood, drill a few holes, and install the speaker hardware.
Sometimes friends approach me about getting into woodworking, starting with no skills or tools, and it is hard to tell them what to try first. Now I have an answer. Looking at Rockler’s latest cool project for unskilled woodworkers, two bookshelf speaker kits, I remembered a bunch of others from Rockler in the past few years. Here they are. Go to Rockler.com for more.
You can use off-the-shelf lumber for these, from your local home center, and make projects that are worth building, and skewed toward modern tastes and needs, unlike the usual moldy and slightly pointless projects for beginners.
This isn’t the first time I have extolled Rockler products for newbies. A few years ago I used their very cheap and very effective dowel jigs to build an entire nightstand, in a free video series on our companion site, StartWoodworking.com.
As a FWW editor, I’m not allowed any Rockler freebies for all this free PR, so you know I’m telling the truth!
Here are links to the speaker kits, the hairpin legs, the three-rod legs, the shelf blocks, and the passive iPhone amplifier.
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Thanks for posting this. I'm looking to get back into woodworking and I need something easy to start with.
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