Ginkgo Leaf Table: While this unique table is Willie Sandry’s original design, he drew inspiration from Japanese furniture and architecture.

Wine Presentation Box: Impress a wine aficionado in your life with a handmade gift box. It features a unique mechanism that “pops up” three wine bottles when the lid is opened.

Tambour Console Cabinet: Our emeritus publisher Rob Johnstone crafts a Mid-Century Modern classic complete with waterfall corners, routed tambour doors and tapered legs. If you’re a child of the 1950s, this design should resonate immediately!

Cherry Blanket Chest: Try your hand at cutting through dovetails with a backsaw and chisels. It’s not that hard (really!), if you use an aluminum sawing guide like we did to build this beautiful chest.

Custom Knife: Cut, drill, sand and glue are the basic steps to form the wooden scales of this useful and attractive pocketknife. You can build one from a kit supplied by Rockler in less than a day.

Stickley-Inspired Plant Stand: Plant stands are enormously popular projects, and this Arts & Crafts design is easy to build. Why not make it from white oak as we did, then give it an authentic ammonia-fumed finish.

Turned Rolling Pins: Master woodturner Ernie Conover demonstrates how to create three variations of rolling pins: baguette, American and pasta cutter-style.

Vertical Drilling Jig: Drilling straight holes into the end grain of workpieces is tricky without a jig. Our design clamps to your drill press table and offers two helpful stops to take the hassle out of the task while ensuring accuracy.

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Carefree Porch Swing: Any covered porch will be more inviting for spending leisure time if it includes a swing! Our design seats two comfortably and is easy to build.

Mission Coffee Table: Get ready for some mortise-and-tenon fun if you tackle this classic. And rest assured — it will never go out of style.

Ash Bar Stool: Sharpen your chisels and find that favorite backsaw, because you’ll put them to good use cutting through dovetails for this curvy custom stool!

Advanced Power Tool Techniques: Track saws are ideal for slicing up sheet goods. A.J. Hamler extends their usefulness for crosscutting thick slabs, making waterfall miter joints and kerf-bending.

Tool Preview: Slab furniture continues to on-trend and a popular contender for hobbyist woodworkers. Rockler offers two sizes of Slab Flattening Jigs that will help surface them easily and safely with a handheld router.

Shop Talk: Consider taking a woodworking class under the expert tutelage of Ernie Conover or at the recently opened Wendell Castle Workshop.

Tricks of the Trade: Readers share easy ways to keep glue bottles clean and a nifty sliding support for ripping sheet goods on a table saw.

Our Weekly Readers: What do you think about cutting dovetails by hand versus reaching for a jig system and router? Our online newsletter readers share their opinions on the topic.

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Adirondack Rocker: Four years ago, we published a “Modern Adirondack Chair” plan, and Rockler sells template and hardware kits to build it. For this issue, we’re making that chair even more comfortable to relax in (and get out of!) by adding a set of rockers to it! Learn how to build it here.

Pedestal Stand: A benchtop lathe with bed extension helped our author turn a beautiful and handy focal point for displaying a candy machine. But you could easily modify it to showcase a favorite house plant.

Translucent Screen Shutters: Add elegant privacy to any window in your home without compromising sunlight.

Advanced Power Tool Techniques: No one we’ve met is wild about power-sanding. But our expert offers plentiful advice to help you sand more efficiently and effectively, regardless.

Tool Preview: Now and again, it sure would be handy to be able to cut ferrous metal on a woodshop band saw, wouldn’t it? Laguna is making that a reality with its new hybrid 14|CX Bandsaw. Learn more about it in this article.

Shop Talk: Sometimes woodturning accomplishment shouldn’t be measured by a stopwatch, and our essayist, Rick Weil, explains why. We also feature a Twin-Cities based lumber business that makes the most of discarded trees.

Tricks of the Trade: Tips for safeguarding a scroll chuck and keeping wooden face trim in alignment when installing it.

Our Weekly Readers: Hide glue has been around for centuries, but do you use it? Readers share thoughts about this ancient but still very practical wood glue.

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Dovetailed Printer Stand: Stack a printer, scanner and ream of paper in the same footprint you’d need for just one of these items otherwise! Here’s an excellent excuse to brush up on your hand-cut dovetailing skills, too.

Arts & Crafts-inspired Bookcase: Longleaf pine takes this sturdy Prairie design in a fresh, new direction. Or build this practical project from any wood species that suits your fancy.

Kitchen Drawer Organizers: Many drawers suffer from wasted space or outright clutter because their interiors aren’t partitioned effectively. Our knife block and utensil tray can help you bring a bit of order to the chaos.

Advanced Power Tool Techniques: Loose-tenon joinery is faster to produce than traditional mortise-and-tenon options, and you can build these joints with a variety of common tools. A.J. Hamler covers the options.

Tool Preview: Rockler’s new 10-18 Mini and VS 12-24 Midi lathes can get your new woodturning hobby off to a great start, affordably and conveniently. Learn more about them here and in our “More on the Web” video.

Shop Talk: Greenville Woodworking Guild members share some 20,000 square ft of shop space for fellowship, outreach, education and, of course, great woodworking!

Tricks of the Trade: Fellow readers share their tips for at-a-glance storage solutions, saving wasted electricity and improving miter gauge handling.

Stumpers: Guessers uncover the purpose of our December Stumpers item and put this mystery to bed.

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Slab-built Bookcase: Tabletops, mantels and river-pours aren’t the only options for slab lumber. Why not resaw one and use it as the components for a rugged, attractive bookcase? Rockler’s new Benchtop Slab Flattening Jig (coming in February) can help make the first stages of that lumber prep easier!

Stickley Small Server: Willie Sandry offers plans for making a reproduction of a rare, single-drawer variation of Gustav Stickley’s popular #802 Server. It’ll make a handsome addition to your living room.

Gluing Supplies Caddy: It’s surprising how many variations of glue and glue applicators an enterprising woodworker can amass over time! This box-jointed tote with two-way drawer will help you stow all those sundries neatly.

Advanced Power Tool Techniques: A.J. Hamler shares three techniques for getting the most from your handheld router: sign-making, routing circles or ellipses and leveling wood plugs.

Tool Preview: Nova’s new Neptune DVR Lathe could launch a new woodturning hobby. It offers a host of standard features, and many upgrade options can help it continue to deliver for a lifetime of projects.

What’s in Store: Rockler now has a two-stage sharpening system that works with your dry grinder for sharpening chisels or plane irons. You’ll also find nifty needle-nose clamps, 3M’s next-level abrasives and a new cordless mid-size router from Milwaukee.

Tricks of the Trade: Readers have clever ideas for shimming a router tabletop, putting the squeeze on a metal-working vise, loosening brass screws without damaging them and more.

Stumpers: Fellow woodworkers crack the seal on our October-issue mystery tool.

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Compact Plant Stand: Woodworker’s Journal readers love plant stand designs, and this one has a couple of particularly cool attributes to it. First, we built it from sustainable and beautiful bamboo board, and second, the top is a disc of poured resin using a new round silicone mold from Rockler.

Brick-laid Bowl: Turners will appreciate this segmented bowl project, because it’s just as much fun to glue up from ordinary cherry and maple lumber as it is to turn. Here’s a gift idea that might be just as enjoyable to create as it is to give away!

Wenge Wine Cabinet: Bottles of wine make a classy statement, especially when you offer them inside a custom presentation “cabinet.” Ours is made of handsome wenge adorned with elegant brass hardware.

Tool Preview: Festool adopts a double-bladed panel saw approach to cleaner cutting with its new TSV 60 KEB-F-Plus corded track saw. It might just be the answer to zero tearout!

What’s in Store: Need stocking stuffer ideas for a woodworker you know? We offer some affordable new-product suggestions from Rockler, Milwaukee Tool, Robert Sorby and MICROJIG.

Tricks of the Trade: Learn three tips from fellow readers that will help you get the upper hand on workpiece handling.

Stumpers: Find out the fishy features of our August issue’s mystery tool.

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Tall Dresser: This narrow wall-mounted dresser with two doors and three drawers looks nothing like the usual collection of boxes we typically call a dresser. Unconventional? You bet! And it could be just right for a tiny bedroom.

Crokinole Gameboard: Canadians know this engaging table game well, but most of us here in the States do not. Here’s a chance to build the gameboard and introduce a new pastime for family gatherings this upcoming holiday season.

Modern Nesting Tables If it’s been a long while since you’ve worked with hickory lumber, this minimalist table trio could be good opportunity to put a tough, beautiful and affordable native hardwood to good use again.

Woodworking Basics: It’s time to “graduate” by adding door-building skills to your budding woodworking hobby! This attractive wall cabinet will have you building simple cabinet doors with no special tooling or skills required.

Modern Shop Hand Tools: Whether you need to shape and smooth wood, metal or plastics, there’s a file or rasp that can handle the job. Our expert walks you through the options.

Simplifying Bit Setups: Panel-raising bits are among the largest you’ll ever chuck into your router. And they’ll bring a level of machining capability to a router table that elevates cabinet doors to pro-shop quality.

Advanced Power Tool Techniques: Cutting wheels, hogging out mortises and boring angled holes are all within the range of possibility of even the smallest drill press. These are next-level skills to keep in mind so you can get the most out of your machine.

Tool Preview: Rockler’s latest Dust Right Dust Collector features wall-mounted convenience plus cyclonic efficiency and HEPA filtration.

Hardworking Hardware: Knife hinges are as elegant to look at and use as they are persnickety to install. It’s worth the effort, if you know the right mortising and fitting procedure. Here’s what you need to keep in mind.

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Cherry Dog Kennel: Fido doesn’t have to settle for a metal or plastic dog crate, because your woodworking skills can raise that bar considerably if you build our version of an all-wood kennel. Even better, it’ll disguise its true purpose beautifully as an end table.

Memento Mirror Frame: This attractive accent offers one final reflection before you head out the door, and a pair of 5×7 photo openings can lift your spirits at the same time! A new router table jig from Rockler makes its cross-lap joints fun and easy to mill.

Outdoor Corner Plant Stand: Curves and more curves adorn this four-shelved organizer. If you build it from an outdoor-suitable wood, it offers plenty of space to display your summer plants on a patio or deck.

Woodworking Basics: Our third installment of a new four-part series for beginners will have you building a walnut wall shelf while honing your skills at cutting and fairing matching curves.

Modern Shop Hand Tools: A piece of steel, sharpened and burnished well, becomes an excellent micro-plane. It’s called a cabinet or card scraper, and every woodworker should benefit from its versatility. Let our expert enlighten you in his article and “More on the Web” video.

Simplifying Bit Setups: Keyhole slots are the most durable option for hanging large photo frames or plaques. They’re also easy to rout with the right template, guide bushing and bit from Rockler. We’ll show you how here.

Advanced Power Tool Techniques: A jointer is no one-trick pony! A.J. Hamler explains how to use it for tapering table legs and milling rabbets as well as taking the twist out of gnarly boards.

Tool Preview: Festool cuts the cord with its all-new 36-volt Kapex KSC 60 Sliding Compound Miter Saw. We take a closer look at its features.

Hardworking Hardware: A flipper door is the perfect solution for this issue’s “Cherry Dog Kennel,” and Rockler’s EZ Pocket Door Slide hardware makes that possible.

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Adirondack Upgraded: It took several prototypes, but our art director landed on a fresh update for a classic chair that is both fun to make and easier to get up and out of.

Pinstripe Knife Block: Kick that old humdrum knife block on your counter to the curb after building this wenge and cherry version. Its wedged laminations can accommodate any kitchen knife collection you need to store.

Floating Bedside Shelf: There’s some tricky templating work to be done if you build this curvy bedside accent. But you’ll have a chance to try some new router bits as you wrap thick hardwood edging around each shelf. It’ll raise the bar on your routing skills!

Woodworking Basics: In our second of a new four-part series for beginners, learn how to build a sturdy end table. This project will introduce you to panel glue-ups, taper cuts and wood movement considerations — all excellent lessons to learn.

Modern Shop Hand Tools: Whether building wheel spindles, barrel staves or Windsor chairs, drawknives and spokeshaves have always been essential hand tools. Learn more about what they are and how to use them for adding curves and contours to your projects.

Simplifying Bit Setups: A matched set of edge V-groove router bits can help you install durable, attractive solid-wood edges to plywood shelves. Here’s how to set up and use them well.

Advanced Power Tool Techniques: A.J. Hamler teaches the ins and outs of four must-know band saw techniques for experienced woodworkers: Resawing, pattern-cutting, making compound cuts and preparing bowl blanks from logs.

Tool Preview: Nova brings DVR motor convenience and a load of great features to its new Nebula 18-in. Wood Lathe.

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Modern Room Divider: The effects of the pandemic have prompted many of us to work from home and turn common living spaces into makeshift offices. A classic room divider can help partition that workspace from the rest of a room, and you can dress it up beautifully with the wallpaper patterns and colors of your choice!

Precision Tool Cabinet: Our senior editor will show you how to make a small but practical cabinet for your measuring, marking and delicate cutting tools. Why not adorn it with some fancy figured lumber you’ve been saving? Who says shop storage can’t be attractive, too?

Accented Cutting Board: Add “Wow!” factor to cutting boards with an angled lamination of multi-colored hardwoods. It’s a flashy detail that will make this workaday kitchen creation even more distinctive.

Modern Shop Hand Tools: If you’re just beginning to work wood or looking for simple but useful projects to build with a young person, this new limited four-part series will help cover the fundamentals. Our first project is a practical Step Stool you can make with a modest collection of hand tools.

Shop Talk: It’s hard to imagine not using electric routers these days, but Ernie Conover makes the case for why a router plane is still a sensible and useful addition to your hand tool collection.

Simplifying Bit Setups: Learn how to set up and use drawer lock router bits. It’s the second in a new six-part series intended to help build your confidence with some of our craft’s trickier router bit options.

Advanced Power Tool Techniques: Get the most from your router table by adding jointing, template-routing and mortise-and-tenon joinery to your repertoire! A.J. Hamler will teach you all three techniques in this article.

Tool Preview: Oneida is an industry leader in dust collection machines. The company has raised the bar of efficiency once again with its new Supercell Turbo dust collectors.

Hardworking Hardware: Piano hinges offer narrow profiles and loads of swing strength for attaching heavy lids or doors to your projects. Learn how to install them with a router and jig.

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