Page 28 - Learn Woodworking Tips with Rockler

  1. Refinishing Cabinetry

    Refinishing Cabinetry

    Refinishing is time-honored method of updating cabinetry, and if your cabinets are in reasonably good repair, it can yield attractive results - along with a sense of personal satisfaction.
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  2. Hand Saw Overview: Veneer Saws

    Hand Saw Overview: Veneer Saws

    It's a specialty tool, but for what it does, there is no better tool than a veneer saw.
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  3. Video: Building a Walnut Dining Table Top

    Video: Building a Walnut Dining Table Top

    In this video, April Wilkerson completes her kitchen table project, adding a tabletop with walnut breadboard ends.
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  4. Make a Trivet with Rounded Edges

    Make a Trivet with Rounded Edges

    This small trivet project might seem relatively simple, but it requires some special techniques, tool setups and prep work. A Magswitch Universal Featherboard helps make all the cuts easier and more safe. Featherboards securely hold the workpiece against the fence, freeing up your hands to control the workpiece through the cut.
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  5. Hand Saw Overview: Japanese Saw

    Hand Saw Overview: Japanese Saw

    Over the last ten years or so, Japanese style saws have become widely available in the US market, so I thought I would discuss them as part of this handsaw series.
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  6. Shop Stand Router Table Cabinet Project

    Shop Stand Router Table Cabinet Project

    The Rockler Rock-Steady Shop Stand Kits are the perfect platform to create workshop cabinets, work tables or workshop cart systems. The Rock-Steady Router Table Stand Kit is the perfect size for our standard 32'' x 24'' Rockler table tops, leaving a 3'' overhang on all sides.This free plan shows you how to make and install two drawers and a shelf to add more storage and organization to this router table
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  7. Edge Trimming with a Router

    Edge Trimming with a Router

    There are many tools that can be used to make the edge of a board straight – a table saw, a jointer, a hand plane...But if you're working without a jointer or in tight quarters with large sheet materials, using a router and an edge guide or a straightedge template is arguably the best way to go.
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  8. Hand Saw Overview: Coping Saw

    Hand Saw Overview: Coping Saw

    After the classic hand saw, the next most effective saw to master is the coping saw.
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  9. Project: Greene and Greene Bedside Table

    Project: Greene and Greene Bedside Table

    This Greene and Greene bedside table completes a set of bedroom furniture that includes a dresser and bed.
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  10. Video: Building a Walnut Dining Table Base

    Video: Building a Walnut Dining Table Base

    In this video, April Wilkerson constructs the base for a walnut dining table.
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  11. Cutting Large Ellipses with a Router

    Cutting Large Ellipses with a Router

     Need to cut a circle or ellipse shape for your next project? The router circle and ellipse cutting jig and makes it easy to cut circles and ellipse shapes over a wide range of dimensions and proportions. When you cut circles the jig rotates around a single center pivot point.When you cut ellipses, the jig's sliding dovetail mechanism keeps the router precisely on the cut line. If you're using a compact router, choose the router circle and ellipse cutting jig for compact routers
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