Looking to add a handmade touch to your holiday décor? These DIY wooden lanterns are the perfect way to bring warmth and charm to your home — no matter the season. Whether you’re decorating for Halloween, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, or even Easter, these lanterns can be customized to suit any celebration. In my latest YouTube […]
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Do you ever wonder what the hype is all about when it comes to end grain cutting boards? Personally, I never got what the big deal was… until I tried to make one myself! Three homemade jigs later, I had a stunning brick pattern end grain cutting board fit for chef. In this tutorial, I’ll
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It’s that time of year! My annual holiday gift making video. Here are 5 new ideas for holiday gifts you can make from wood. For the step-by-step process for making these 5 woodworking gifts you can make from wood, watch the YouTube video below. 5 Woodworking Gifts You Can Make Woodworking Gift Idea #1: Kitchen
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Every year before the holidays, I make one of these gift making videos. I’ve gone through a lot of woodworking gift ideas over the years (you can watch all the previous editions here) but somehow I managed to come up with 6 brand new ideas to share with you this year. Templates Baguette Slicer Feet
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How many hours do you spend sitting down every day? Between my day job and editing content, I spend WAY too much time sitting at my desk. They say sitting is the new smoking… Whatever that means. But one thing is clear, all that sitting isn’t good for anyone. So today I’m doing something about it
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Just over a year ago, I built a desk from scratch for my home office. I built a set of drawer cabinets out of plywood and added a solid ash wood desk top. I’ve been meaning to build a set of matching floating shelves for over a year now but seem to keep putting it
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Looking for woodworking gift ideas you can make for the holidays this year? In this tutorial, I’ll show you 4 woodworking gifts you can make from wood including a Mölkky game (also called Finska), a pear-shaped trivet, a growth chart ruler and a modern wall wine rack. Looking for even more gift ideas? Check out
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With all of us spending more time at home this year, I find myself spending time in the kitchen and cooking more than ever before. That why I decided to dedicate this year’s DIY-holiday-gifts-you-can-make-out-of-wood edition to gifts for the kitchen. Update! Just posted the 2021 holiday gifts edition here: https://www.diymontreal.com/woodworking-gifts-you-can-make/ — Watch the video —
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I’ve been wanting to incorporate epoxy resin to a project, so I figured epoxy coasters would be a good place to start. Wanting to add a little flare, I decided to make hexagon coasters, using a hexagon cutting jig I made a while back. Coasters are always a fun project because I can typically just
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Today I’m going to show you how to make a lazy Susan. It’s basically the same as making two round cutting boards and installing Lazy Susan turntable hardware. I’ll also show you how I made a homemade circle cutting jig to cut the circles with a router. For this project I used three types of