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I have been doing a lot of work at home recently, and wanted something that would make working on my laptop a little more comfortable. While they may be called laptops, they aren't especially user friendly or comfortable to use while sitting on your lap. While I consider myself pretty tech...

This is a traveling plate rack made from oak for wet plate photography. After the plate is fixed, it needs a place to dry before a protective varnish coating. During this drying process the silver coating is very delicate. Version one of this holder was mostly a prototype and I learned a few...

Recently finished this breakfast table / lap desk for the girlfriend for valentine's day. The top is made out of red oak and the legs are from so coved pieces I had sitting around already (which are walnut I believe??). Being that I only have rough cut oak and no jointer or planer yet, I have to...

Sometimes as woodworkers we tend to save scrapes and bits of information and ides. Well this project I build today came from an article in Popular Mechanic April 1984! I knew I had it somewhere, and I knew I needed to build one for the next on site project I have coming up in September. Sure I...

When I saw the folding sawhorses Canexican designed I knew they would be a great help for me. You see I sold all my woodworking equipment 11 years ago when we "hit the road" in our RV. Last year I got the itch to have a shop again so I bought a 24' enclosed cargo trailer and started equipping...

I created a simple router table that attached to my work bench - I've never used a router before. Unfortunately, it worked better in theory than in practice. When I went to use the router, I placed a scrap board on it, and as I moved the board, the whole table shifted. Not good! I decided to...

I designed and built this out of "necessity" while deployed in Kuwait 2011-12. I was fortunate enough to be able to use my laptop there but was aggravated at having to rest it in my lap all the time while in my bunk. The legs fold up underneath for spacious storage, and part of the top (where...

This is one of my first woodworking projects, so there are a few mistakes and I definitely learned many ways to not do things. Overall I'm pretty happy with how it came out. Background I love going out at night and looking through my Dobsonian telescope, but depending on where I've got it...

My wife got a new overlocker for her b-day, and said that she now needs a big table to cut fabric on and sew. as we are going to move in a short while i wanted something that can be easily collapsed and moved. I ended up with trestle table design. The table legs are joined with biscuits (see the...

Hey, I'm Jordan Tille, the son of Joel and Susan. I'll list some highlights from the Humboldt Independent's article about my castles. I had started my castle making a couple years ago when I saw a seminar in Des Moines about bandsaws and how you could cut these castles from a band saw. Doug...

I've been needing one of these benches for a while and I found the plans in Instructables.com It is great for so many applications such as fit it in the back of your truck for on the job, build it the same height as your tablesaw as an infeed, outfeed table, the possibilities are endless The...

I recently had a need for some sawhorses. I wanted to build something worth keeping in the shop, because I knew they would be handy to have around. I strongly considered Matthias Wandel's stackable sawhorses because I knew they would be sturdy and easy to build, but I just don't have a good...