The carcase of my new router table had taken shape, so it was time to start working on the innards.   Storage Drawers My routers and major accessories — bases, baseplates, edge guide, jigs — don’t have a good home...

The Carcase The next step in building my new router table was to make the panels that form the cabinet carcase.  These panels are cut from 3/4-inch MDF and trimmed in white aspen.  The wood trim gives me a more durable edge than bare MDF...

While I was out of town the critical parts of my new router table arrived.  It was time to start the build.   Top I started with the router table top because that’s the fussiest part of the whole project.  First I cut two...

This is another project I did with my friend Bill.  The objective was to design and build boxes to keep and organize what he and Amy call “pocket plunder” — their term for all that miscellaneous stuff that one...

Since I first set up my garage workshop back in the late 1990s, my router table has been the left side extension of my table saw.  It’s a very simple design, essentially a miniature version of Norm Abram’s famous New Yankee...

Having scratched a few itches around the house, I moved on to the next thing that’s been bugging me for years:  the craptastic table that sits next to my front door. I won’t horrify you with a photo.  Just imagine a very...