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...

My best friend Bill is an annual attendee at Pennsic War, where he and about 10,000 other people camp out in tents and enjoy various forms of martial combat for glory and fun.  Having seen in person the bedroom set, the desk, and other...