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How to Make Wooden Bowls Using Your Bandsaw
I'll show you how make round wooden bowls from strips of wood and a bandsaw. I don't have a wood lathe, so I found a way to create round bowls using my bandsaw. You can make them any diameter 3 inches...
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Wooden Reindeer Figures
Just in time for the holidays I'll show you how to make cute reindeer ornaments from hardwood. Make a bunch of them for your Christmas tree, fireplace mantle, windowsills, or give them away as gifts or...
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Decorative Leaves from Wood
These decorative leaves are easy to make with a bandsaw.You will need:A piece of wood for the leaves: 3" wide by about 10" long and 3/4" thick.A piece of darker wood to cut the stems: about 2" wide by...
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How to Make an Angled Segmented Bowl with Your Bandsaw
This Instructable will teach you how to make segmented bowls with angled sides from strips or boards of hardwood. No lathe required, just a bandsaw!There are two ways to prepare the 'blank' to cut your...
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Make a Bench Vise for Woodworking
This bench vise – sometimes called Moxon’s Vise – is inexpensive to make, portable, and works very well for holding your work pieces while sawing, chiseling, or planing. There are many designs for this...
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Lego People Display Case
Wouldn’t you like to show off all your little Lego people? Organize them? Have them watch you?Let’s build a display case for them.By: rschoenmContinue Reading »
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Wooden Snowflake and Star Ornaments
An easy way to make a bunch of wooden snowflakes or stars for decorating your home or Christmas tree. All you need is a little bit of hardwood, a table saw, and a hand- or band-saw. A 12" board will...
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Easy Hexagonal Wood Post from a 2 by 4
Follow these instructions to make a hexagonal post from a 2 by 4. You need a straight 2 by 4 and a table saw. A planer or jointer will be helpful if you have one.By: rschoenmContinue Reading »
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Obelisk Table Lamp Base
Make a wooden lamp base in the shape of an obelisk for a table or nightstand lamp.Materials you need are a 3/4" thick hardwood board 4 inches wide by about 40 inches long; a scrap piece of 3/4"...
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Infinite Band Clamp
A band clamp lets you clamp many different shapes for gluing that would be difficult to pull together with just standard bar or pipe clamps. Want to make a picture frame? Use a band clamp!You can...
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Nested Helix
In this Instructable I’ll explain how to make nested helices (spirals) from wooden dowels or sticks. A few years ago I came across this article in Make Magazine that describes a spiral cutting...
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Puzzle: Squaring a Triangle
You can cut a square into four pieces, and reassemble these pieces into a triangle. Or vice versa. This makes a great little puzzle. I’ll show the solution in step 2.By: rschoenmContinue Reading »
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Intricate Wood Inlays Made Super Easy
If you want to make a very intricate wood inlay, but you lack patience or fine motor control, here is an easy way to accomplish beautiful work with a laser cutter. The technique differs from prior...
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3D Printed Gadgets for Woodworking
This is a collection of simple 3D printed gadgets for my woodworking workshop. All where designed in Autodesk Fusion 360, and I have included the stl files so you can print your own. The designs are...
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More 3D Printed Gadgets for Woodworking
A great collection of simple 3d printed gadgets to make life easier in your woodworking shop. This is a follow-up on my prior Instructable to make useful 3D printed gadgets for your workshop. You can...
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Pretty Patterned Cutting Board
Use leftover scrap pieces of hardwood in your shop to make a pretty cutting board.You will need the following tools: table saw, planer, biscuit joiner (optional), router table (optional), circular or...
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Texture Rollers - for Cookies or Clay
In this Instructable I'll show you how to make 3d printed texture rollers for cookie dough, ceramics, clay, play dough, fondant, or pie crust. Imprint textures, graphics, or text on your creations!...
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Easter Bunnies
Sometime ago we made reindeer figures, so let's make some Easter Bunnies now.You need a 2.5" by 2.75" by 1.5" thick piece of wood; e.g maple, cherry, oak, or walnut. To get the 1.5" thickness you can...
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Wooden Threads With Your Router Table
I haven’t had much luck with the commercial tap and die sets for making wooden threads. It seems like the cutting knife in the die is the weak spot, it just doesn’t last for me or leaves a rough...
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Reading While Standing - Adjustable Phone Stand
Whether you video-chat, try a new on-line recipe in the kitchen, or read a book on your phone or tablet you need to somehow prop up your phone for optimal viewing. So here is an easy to make adjustable...
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