Give your clamp collection a home
None of us have enough of them, and they all need a home. Here are some ways to store your clamp collection.
Rob Brown
Rob is the editor at Canadian Woodworking & Home Improvement and a studio furniture maker.
Articles by Rob Brown
Build a Mitre Crosscut Sled
This simple sled provides a safe, accurate and easy way to cut mitres on large work-pieces.
Jamie Russell
Russell, a self-confessed bachelor hermit, has quietly made sculpted furniture in his Saskatchewan studio for many decades.
Wave Cabinet
A random wave pattern in wood is fairly easy to produce, and can be varied to suit your needs. With an assortment of tools and a sound approach to the steps involved you'll be surprised what you can accomplish.
Build a textured tealight holder
This is the perfect project to introduce yourself to adding texture to wood.
Build a textured wall shelf
With six different types of texture, this wall shelf is sure to challenge your joinery and machining skills, as well as your texturing skills.
Texture and the Canadian Furniture Maker
Furniture makers across the country have been using texture with huge success. Here's a collection of some great examples of texture in furniture, as well as some details about how it was produced.
Make a children’s sleigh
Rather than spend another Canadian winter waiting for spring, get outside, enjoy the snow and pretend you’re a kid again!
8 Great Woodworking Books
The holidays are a great time for giving and receiving. They are also the perfect time for reading woodworking books. Here's my selection of great reads to put on your wish list.
Common cents: renovation financing
Most of us enjoy making small improvements to our own home, but what about the big stuff? And what about financing a larger renovation? Will it improve your home’s resale value? What will give you the most bang for your buck? How should you obtain credit to finance a large renovation? I spoke with four professionals and asked them all about the financial side of renovating a home.
Build a pie safe
If you’re in need of extra storage space, a pie safe may be the missing ingredient. Before refrigeration was commonplace, they were used to keep bugs and insects away from food, but today these traditional pieces can still play an important role in a home.
Build a kid’s toolbox
A great way to introduce a child to woodworking is with a simple project that they can use. Depending on your child’s level of skill, this toolbox project may be the perfect start to a life-long hobby.
Student Work from Across Canada
Thousands of students attend a woodworking class or school each year. Some have no experience whatsoever before enrolling, while others are quite familiar with the tools and techniques used to create furniture. Here is a small taste of the kind of work they are completing while studying.
Garden Trellis
Spruce up your yard with this great looking and easy-to-build garden trellis.
Heirloom tool cabinet
Sure, you can hang all your tools from sheets of pegboard, but that doesn’t do much for the atmosphere of your shop. A wall-hung hand tool cabinet will help organize your tools as well as show off your skills.
Top-Notch Drawer
Figured wood would have looked great, but this technique adds texture and line to this pair of drawer fronts.
Useful Tools for the Small Shop
With so many tools and machines getting larger and more powerful these days, it’s nice to know there are still some items that are made “just big enough”.
14 practical steps to designing furniture
Use these steps to help you design furniture that is beautiful, unique and functional.
Outside the Box
While there’s a place for simple and straightforward, these artists don’t want any part of it. To keep their work fresh and interesting, these Canadian makers turn to unique themes, processes and materials to design eye-catching pieces.
Contemporary Canadian furniture designers
It’s very “Canadian” of us to look abroad in admiration at the globe’s great furniture makers, while in our own backyard countless skilled artisans produce gorgeous pieces that could compete with the best in the world. This is a small collection of some of our best.
Going Against the Grain
If you’re working with veneered panels, you’re free to inlay stringing and banding in any direction you’d like, as wood movement is virtually non-existent.
Elliptical Router Jig
An ellipse is fairly easy to make, and looks very impressive. All you need is an accurate jig.
Spray finishing – tips for getting started
Rob Brown shares his tips for getting the best results on your next spray finishing project.
Southern Alberta Woodworkers Society Biennial Exhibition
Design, execution and education play a large role in directing this dedicated group of artisans. Here is a sampling of their work that was on display during their most recent show.
