What Is a CNC Woodworking Router And How To Assemble One At Home

What is a CNC router is, how it works and how you can get one for your wood-shop. CNC woodworking is an enthralling way to do woodwork with equally thrilling results. The only caveat is that you learn how to operate the CNC router. Once you do you amazing designs and possibilities open for you.

20 Best Selling Wood Crafts You Can Make With Hand Tools (With Plans)

These hand tool projects are great for starting out or building novel woodcrafts with minimal tools. Here are about 20 popular wood projects that along with their simplicity, also have the reputation of being great sellers.

How To Recondition A Cordless Drill Battery

Your power tool batteries can probably last longer than they usually do. Since the performance of your cordless tools is directly linked to the battery condition, it makes sense to know a few things about elongating battery life. Also, since they are expensive to replace, it’s very useful to learn how to recondition degraded batteries to restore their power.

How To Convert A Garage Into A Woodshop

A common space to convert into a workshop is the home garage, provided you can make other arrangement for your vehicles. Here are the basic steps to setting up a woodworking workshop in a one car or two car garage. Get the correct layout with essential design elements like working space, storage, ventilation, right lighting, air filtration and sound insulation.

The Best Battery Type For Cordless Power Tools – Lithium, NiMH Or NiCd

Battery performance affects the functioning of every cordless power tool. Find out if lithium-based batteries are right choice for your intended usage or do nickel-based batteries present a better solution.

How To Make Tool Batteries Last 3x Longer

There are a few simple things you can do to make your batteries in any device last much longer before their capacity and performance decreases to the extent that you have to replace them or even discard the device altogether. Batteries are susceptible to how they are used and charged. Learn these simple tricks to keep your batteries performing at peak capacity for longer.

7 Very Useful And Easy To Make Woodworking Jigs

Woodworking jigs are very useful little contraptions that make doing a particular process easier like cutting drilling holes of a specific depth, making dovetails etc. They allow you to get uniform results every time you repeat the process. Jigs can be simple or complex structures. You can purchase ready made ones and also make a lot of them yourself. These are a few simple jigs you can make yourself for common woodworking functions.

How To Setup A Wood Shop In A Basement

A basement adds so much more space to a house, and serves multiple purposes like storage, utility space for heating, laundry etc. If you have one, it can house a complete woodworking workshop. Read this post to get the basic steps you will need to take to convert a basement into a workshop.

How To Setup A Woodshop In An Apartment

How great would it be if you could set up a woodworking workshop in an apartment? If you follow a few conditions and set up things right, it is possible to do woodworking even in an apartment. This post explores this possibility in more detail including what kind of a setup you are going to need and the projects you can make.

Basics Of Sanding With Belt And Orbital Sanders

No wood working project is finished without sanding. In order to get the right finish you almost always have to sand the wood surface and then apply a coat of polish/varnish if you choose to. In this post we will look at two kinds of power sanders and how to use them. The Belt Sander……