Milling Lumber - Page 10 of 14

I put off building one of those carriage fixtures for straightening crooked-edged boards for several years. The fixtures require expensive hold-down clamps, and they reduce the possible depth of cut…

Learn the four-square technique for milling lumber

A simple wooden strip tacked to the bottom of the workpiece will let you rip panels that are too wide for the rip fence on your table saw. Size the…

Here's a trick for straightening a bowed board. Tape a piece of angle iron to the concave edge of the board to serve as a guide, as shown. If the…

Here is an accurate and simple way to crosscut plywood panels or boards that are too wide to cut using the saw's miter gauge. Start with a straight 1x2 longer…

For five years I have looked unsuccessfully for a 10-in. table saw with a "rolling table" facility for crosscuts and miters. The one I'm familiar with is a big, old…

Lacking a jointer, I devised this improvised radial-arm-saw setup to joint the thick oak boards I used in two butcher-block tabletops. First rip a thin board the exact thickness of…

Here's a way to joint those monster wide planks that are impossible to true on a jointer, no matter how strong you are. Clamp your raggedy-edged board over a long,…

Before I built this roller hold-in, I found myself using one hand to hold the work against the bandsaw fence and the other to steer and feed the stock. I…

When you're jointing wavy-grained, contrary woods like curly maple, a skewed cutting angle will often produce smoother results with less tear-out than a straight-on cutting angle. To take advantage of…