Cutting and Shaping Wood

Prepare flat, smooth edges on plywood—perfect for edge banding—with this simple offset fence.

This jig includes everything you need for safe, easy cove cuts on your table saw in one easy-to-use package.

An error of only a fraction of a degree can amount to ugly gaps in your corners when building boxes and frames.

A few simple pointers will help you achieve better results with your cabinet door projects.

Learn how to cut a centered slot through a thick workpiece without needing an extra long router bit to extend through the entire workpiece.

If you're like most woodworkers, a table saw is the most often used tool in your shop. Getting adequate dust collection to it should be a primary concern. But not all table saws are set up to make dust collection easy. Open based contractor saws present a particular dust collection challenge. Two of our woodworking experts offer a few tips on the subject.

Whether you use a router made long before you were born, like the 1950s Stanley or one of the technologically advanced models built today, either machine can perform a range of essential woodworking tasks that can’t be bested by any other power tool. If you’re a woodworking novice, I’ll go so far as to say it should rank near the top of your “short list” of tools to buy first, even ahead of a table saw — routers are that useful.

When building casework, cabinetry, drawers, shelving or other box joinery there are four basic rabbet joints you should learn. This post walks you through each of the four joints and shows you how easy they are to cut using your table saw.