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Frustrated with hollow-chisel and router mortises, I made this drill-press mortising fixture, which works even better than I expected. Its secret is a pair of precision ball-bearing drawer slides. Precision…

Here's how to produce simulated clapboard siding for dollhouses with a router and an easy-to-make subbase. First, to make the subbase, bevel a 3/4-in. thick, 6x10 block on the tablesaw…

We developed the fixture above to take advantage of our belt sander as a wide-surface grinder. Because the sanding belt has much more surface area than an abrasive wheel, the…

This simple radial-arm saw method makes it easy to cut mirror- image angled rabbets on the ends of a workpiece, as required for the skirt of a splay-legged table for…

This shopmade steady rest can be set up to support the middle of a long, thin spindle, or it can be used as a tailstock for center-boring. Derived from a…

This simple little jig is extremely useful for routing blind spline slots in spline-mitered frames. Nail or glue together scraps of the frame lumber into the configuration shown in the…

Last Christmas, I wanted to give my wife a sphere covered with 1/2-in.-sq. mirrors. Styrofoam was my first thought, but a plastic ball would have cost $32, so I decided…

I wouldn't try this setup on a board shorter than 10 ft., but one of the handiest jigs in my shop is a tablesaw setup for straightening the edges of…

With this simple jig and a little trigonometry, you can cut odd angles on the tablesaw more accurately than with the saw's miter gauge. First, construct a sliding table using…

I wanted to make some raised panels, but I didn't want to invest in a shaper and special cutters. My solution was to raise the panel with a 3/4-in., 2-flute…