Gluing boards together to make wider panels is a handy woodworking skill that’s easy to learn. Woodworkers with well-equipped shops often buy rough lumber and then rip, plane and joint the lumber to ...

If there’s one thing you need in a woodshop, it’s more clamps. There are bar clamps, pipe clamps, spring clamps, and trigger clamps, but for one task in the workshop, no clamp does the job just right.

A simple but elegant DIY project you can do with some help from your kids? Checkmate. Of all the woodworking projects I've done, building a chessboard is the one that has gotten me the most ooohs and ...

Q:I want to glue some strips of solid wood to the edges of the inexpensive plywood shelves I’ve built into a family-room wall unit, so they will look as if they’re made of solid wood. I tried to hold ...