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I designed this tall table with easy workflow in mind. At 30" wide and 78"' long, its top is spacious, wherever you decide to put it to work — in your home office, as an airy kitchen island or whatever you decide. This tall table with geometric accents could easily serve as a large standing desk or a minimalist kitchen island.I wanted to incorporate some interesting geometry into my design, and hexagonalshapes appeal to me, but I also wanted to keep the project easy to build. Rockler’s Beadlock® loose tenon joinery was just the solution I needed. The Beadlock drilling jig makes it possible to assemble the mitered corners of the captured hexagons, as well as most of the other butt joints in this table build.Project design and plan by Sarah Listi from Tool Girl's Garage.!-

No matter how much light you have in your shop, there are times when just a bit more illumination right where you're working makes all the difference in how efficient your work is, and how safely you perform a particular task.

The drill press does not leave a perfect mortise like you could get off a router, hollow chisel mortiser or a horizontal mortiser, but it does accurately evacuate the waste for the mortise. This saves a lot of up-front time and is easier to clean up with chisels afterward. This video was produced for its free video library by The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine. The Center is a nonprofit, international woodworking school dedicated to providing the best possible education in wood craftsmanship and design.

With this cabinet located in plain sight on the wall, you can corral all your bits into one place, near your router table.

A through mortise is a mortise that goes through one face of the board to the other side. It can be considerably stronger than a mortise that does not go through the board. There are a lot of variations of mortise and tenon joints but, when you're looking for elegance and strength, a wedged through mortise is excellent. This video was produced for its free video library by The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine. The Center is a nonprofit, international woodworking school dedicated to providing the best possible education in wood craftsmanship and design.

When making mortise and tenon joinery that go through the stock with kerf and wedges, there are a couple of options. Both are sturdy joints due to the through tenon and the wedges. And once you've cut the mortise and tenon, creating the kerfs and wedges are a very simple! This video was produced for its free video library by The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine. The Center is a nonprofit, international woodworking school dedicated to providing the best possible education in wood craftsmanship and design.

A mortise is simply a hole in a piece of wood designed to connect with a tenon. The mortise and tenon is one of the most used joinery types in woodworking. As with anything in woodworking there are different ways of accomplishing the same task. The same can be said for making a mortise. Mortises can be made with hand tools, power tools, or several combinations of the two. This video was produced for its free video library by The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine. The Center is a nonprofit, international woodworking school dedicated to providing the best possible education in wood craftsmanship and design.

Learn how to install traditional butt hinges . These durable, free-swinging hinges open and close smoothly—ideal for kitchen cabinets, shutters, furniture, clock cases, small boxes and more! They are available in a variety of sizes and plated finishes to perfectly complement any project.

No-Mortise Butt Hinges feature interlocking hinge leaves that eliminate the need to cut hinge mortises.. These durable, free-swinging hinges open and close smoothly—ideal for kitchen cabinets, shutters, furniture, clock cases, small boxes and more! They are available in a variety of sizes and plated finishes to perfectly complement any project.

Half-blind dovetails are dovetails that are only seen on one face, often used in drawers and case construction. They help keep a polished look while hiding a very strong joint. This video was produced for its free video library by The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine. The Center is a nonprofit, international woodworking school dedicated to providing the best possible education in wood craftsmanship and design.

European-style hinges may seem complicated until you try them and see how easy they are to install and why so many production shops use them exclusively for hanging cabinet doors. Once in place, European hinges also allow for some helpful adjustments that other hinge styles don't. Depending on the specific hinge, you can adjust your cabinet doors up and down, side to side and in and out by turning a couple of screws. These versatile hinges are designed to accommodate either face frame or frameless cabinets. For either style of cabinet, you can buy hinge to suit doors that overlay the cabinet opening or set inside it.