Invest a day in bringing your bandsaw and tablesaw back to peak performance.

Tim Peters, master furnituremaker and hand-tool junkie, heads the woodworking department at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California. He explains here how to sharpen chisels.

I decided to go back to basics and refocus my efforts around a core set of tools to develop the fundamental skills.

Tip the economic scales in your favor with these money-saving ideas.

Every shop has some type of workbench, but have you maximized the potential of yours? Adding a few well-chosen accessories really boosted my bench’s usefulness.

James Hamilton, a.k.a. Stumpy Nubs, solves woodworking problems in unique ways through his popular videos, creations, and articles at stumpynubs.com

Learn to let go.

Need more room to spread out? This oversized workbench is our classic Shanty design scaled up to a full 48″ × 96″ (4×8) footprint. It’s sturdy, simple to build, and perfect for garages, school shops, and job-site prep spaces. A quick backstory This bench is special to me—I built it for my son and his company to use...

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A bright and tidy mountainside shop provides a perfect getaway from the kitchen for a celebrity chef to cook up woodworking projects.

A little forethought in home design and architecture creates a basement space free of the normal obstructions, leaving it wide open for a workshop.

Don’t mistake this backyard shed as a high-end home for garden tools. Instead, you’ll find an efficient, well-lit, and comfortable workshop inside.

Plumb air to your entire shop with a DIY flexible-pipe compressed-air kit.

A novel solution for routing hoses and electricity gives this basement shop unexpectedly unobstructed floor space for maneuvering.

A friend’s old tools combine with a brand new building to create a shop filled with workspace, memories, and more.

Dust is an inevitable product of woodworking, but a dusty workshop doesn’t have to be. These simple strategies help keep dust under control.

All living things evolve, and so do woodshops. No matter where I’ve lived, I’ve changed my shop around — relocating cabinets or shelves, changing one work area to another, adding to the infrastructure, etc. All of my older shops were …

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Perfection doesn’t exist. But you can come close. One of the first things any beginning woodworker must do is set up a workshop. Like so many other things a novice woodworker must do, the preparation of a workshop shapes …

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There’s not enough room in my garage shop for a tablesaw with a 52-in.-capacity rip fence. But no worries—I don’t need one! To make wide cuts, I simply install a shop-made extension that bridges my saw to the wall—and doubles …

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A few tools can go a long way. When you get started in woodworking there are many paths to follow, forks in the road, dead-ends and shortcuts. It’s a journey that our forebears would make with the help of a …

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