Easy to make, easy to store. While many woodworkers spend weekends making stationary router tables, mine have always been very simple, driven by expediency, and the desire to get other...

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Nestled into a southern California hillside, this shop is surrounded by natural beauty visible through large windows from inside the well-organized workspace.

When you possess a lifetime accumulation of woodworking tools and experience, plus teach the craft for your entire career, you deserve the shop you’ve always wished for.

In our last conversation, we explored AI’s ability – or lack thereof – to help us visualize furniture appearance for ourselves or our customers during the planning and design process....

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Can cordless HEPA vacuums clean up your shop without clearing out your wallet?

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.