How-To

Highly accurate and quite affordable, these measuring devices can fine-tune your machines and elevate your woodwork

Make your own set of dowels and pins by hammering a slightly oversize workpiece through a drill gauge.

Scott McGlasson shares his techniques for making the tiles, drilling the holes in them for the rope, weaving them in a running-bond pattern, and creating the walnut beads that decorate the tied end of the rope.

Matt Monaco creats a bowl with a clean, classical simplicity of shape that he sees as wooden pottery.

Setting drawer fronts on cabinet drawers doesn't have to be tricky. Mark Edmundson shows you how.

Furniture maker Mark Edmundson explains the differences between the three basic slide options: basic bottom-mount slides, side-mount slides, and undermount slides.

Israel Martin likes machines but prefers to work with hand tools. To avoid the tedium that can accompany working with hand tools, he simplifies his designs, using mostly straight lines and square corners.

Yoav Liberman demonstrates a few tried-and-true methods for removing stubborn screws in reclaimed lumber.

Slip tenons and steel bolts secure the bed rails while keeping their knockdown abilities a secret.

See how Gary Rogowski reinforces his breadboard ends on large panels and tabletops.