Fine Woodworking

Woodworking Jigs

Workshop tip: Adapt a pencil sharpener to make small pins

January 22, 2021

You can turn a small dowel by making a few changes to your carpenter's pencil sharpener.
Workshop tip: Use spacers to plane strips to perfect thickness

January 14, 2021

Spacer system handles pieces that are too short to plane safely by machine.
Workshop tip: Use push pins to align your track saw

December 31, 2020

Keep both ends of a long track stable with this simple trick.
Workshop tip: Drill-press table tackles dust and more

November 17, 2020

This wide table has an integrated dust-collection box and two vacuum slots through the top.
Tablesaw sleds for joinery

November 16, 2020

Mike Pekovich has a sled for each job: a sled for cutting dovetails, one with a sliding fence for box joints, a sled with a lower fence and stops for cutting dadoes, one with a tall fence for cutting tenons, and a dedicated sled for mitered boxes.
Tool Review: Leigh TD330 dovetail jig

October 6, 2020

The Leigh TD330 delivers gap-free through dovetails at an affordable price.
Workshop Tip: For perfect mortises, upgrade your edge guide

September 24, 2020

This router mortising jig captures the workpiece between two fences.
D.I.Y. precision router base for rotary tools

August 6, 2020

Ben Strano makes a rotary tool base perfect for detailed inlay work for less than $5.
Workshop Tip: Reamer and router team up to bore holes at uncommon diameters

August 4, 2020

An easy way to bore odd-size holes.
Workshop Tip: Simple way to micro-adjust your rip fence

July 29, 2020

A block of wood and some playing cards help with tiny adjustments to the rip fence on your tablesaw.

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