Page 15 - Woodworking Projects

When it comes right down to it, kitchens are the nerve centers of our homes—for preparing meals, gathering and entertaining. How about sprucing up the cabinetry in your kitchen so it looks as great as it works! Here are five simple door and drawer improvements you can make with a few tools and some quality hardware and supplies from Rockler. Most can be completed in a day or two with basic woodworking skills. So, roll up your sleeves and get started—we’ll show you how!!

In this Rockler demonstration you'll learn how to cut the segment pieces and glue them up to make a segmented bowl turning blank. The new Rockler Perfect Miter Setup Blocks make it easy to cut the precise angles needed to make the segmented frames. These setup blocks are precisely set to the different miter angles required to cut segmented pieces that make up 4 to 12 sided frames.

This phone charging dresser valet is the perfect place to charge your phone and store your wallet and keys. Just set your phone over the hot spot and it starts charging. The Zens PuK charging hot spots use the universal Qi wireless charging standard, an induction technology that transmits an electric charge through up to 5mm of wood. The PuK charger can be installed under 5mm of wood for a concealed look. In this case, we left the charger exposed in a through-hole and attached the optional white cover plate. With no exposed wires to fray or tangle, and no charging docks to clutter up your desk, you'll almost look forward to charging your phone. Zens chargers are of the highest quality and performance meeting the needs of furniture/commercial grade use.

Learn how to make a wall shelf with coat hooks. It's a perfect project for your home's entry or a kid's bedroom. This is a project anyone can make with only a jigsaw, router and random orbit sander. In this case, Rob Johnstone uses the DeWalt 20v MAX Cordless Jigsaw , 20v MAX Cordless Random Orbit Sander and DeWalt Compact Router .

In this Rockler demo, we’ll share a few tricks and tools that make it easier than you might think to make a geometric pattern cutting board. It’s a handy project for using up scrap pieces, you can make more than one at the same time and it makes a great gift. It features lots of small pieces that create a geometric pattern. At first glance you might think it would be complicated to glue all the pieces and keep the intersecting corners aligned. But with an accurate miter gauge and a simple trick for making the patterns, this complicated-looking cutting board is not so complicated.We show you one version of this type of cutting board (dimensions below), but you can change the pattern and wood species to create endless variations of this type of cutting board.

The basic wood carving techniques for making these Scandinavian-style shrink boxes, or “krympburkar,” date back to the days of the Vikings — but they’re just as fun for modern woodworkers.!

A good weekend project (easily done in a day), this planter will showcase an outdoor plant.

Jewelry boxes are often made with complex joinery to give them an air of sophistication and high style. But you can make a wonderful little heirloom without all the extra work, using just a scroll saw. Scroll saws often sit idle in many shops because we don’t stretch their potential. Here’s a fun way to put yours back into service and prove that it’s more versatile than you might think.

In this Rockler demo you'll learn how to make a small box with mitered corners and a bookmatched top. You can build this project using just one 3/4' x 3-1/2' x 24" piece of stock. This is a perfect project for those scrap pieces laying around your shop that are too small for most projects, but too interesting to throw away. You can also use the same plan and techniques to build larger versions of this box. Resawing with a bandsaw is the key technique used to make this box. A drum sander makes cleaning up the cuts a breeze.

In this Rockler demo you'll learn several tips that will help you make picture frames. We all know that there are a LOT of different styles and joint options for making picture frames. The most common feature mitered corners. And why not? They’re quicker to make than other options, they’re classic and of course, exceedingly functional. But notice that I didn’t say easy! That’s because as you probably already know, 45-degree miter joints like these can be tricky to cut, glue and clamp up accurately. And the wider the frame members are, the more challenging they can be. But, here are five things you can do to up your odds for success when making frames like these.

A splash of inlay embellishes this useful table accessory, the lazy susan.