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The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship uses this workbench design as the basis for a router table, a drafting table, a sanding station, and more.

Tim Rousseau’s shop is filled with machinery that some hobbyist woodworkers might not see all that often, such as a shaper and a jointer/planer combo machine that also pulls duty as a slot mortiser.

Efficiency is important to pros like Christian Becksvoort, and his shop reflects that. From machine layout and hardware storage to a bench dedicated to glue-ups, Chris’s shop incorporates the lessons learned in a long and industrious career.

In this video, contributing editor Michael Fortune will show you how to reinforce materials with epoxy to toughen up your screw joints.

Router inlay kit produces perfect mortises for curved hinges.

The magnetic base of a dial indicator serves as a movable, lockable stop to make crosscutting safer.

To help clamp miters, Craig Thibodeau uses small triangular offcuts from the mitering process as clamping cauls

A file can be a substitute for paring with a chisel. Flat side of a half-round file makes the surfaces smooth and helps joint slide together.

Works great on any cast-iron surface, including bandsaw, router table, and tablesaw.

Craig Thibodeau demonstrates a simple jig that makes it simpler to draw large single-radius curves