Canadian Woodworking Gift & Craft articles showcase small projects, creative ideas, seasonal inspiration, and practical tips for making thoughtful handmade gifts.
Forget about perfecting your hand-cut dovetails, three-way mitre joints, and French polishes. If you want to impress people with your woodworking skills, crank out a few of these beauties. A popular gift, they serve multiple purposes from trivets to cheese trays to cutting boards.
Curves make this box stand out. They also will allow you to work on some new techniques on a small scale.
This holder will keep your mandolin accessible, while making sure it doesn’t get damaged.
This challenging project will get lots of use over the years, and will allow you to show off your woodworking skills.
This simple vase is easy to make and will impress your friends. You can also dip into your offcut bin and use up some of those exotics you have been cherishing.
This is a perfect project to increase your proficiency with the scrollsaw and a few hand tools. It also makes an ideal gift for the sushi-lover in your life.
Make these fancy card-holders – by the dozen – and you’ll become a favourite woodworker among your family and friends.
Build a textured tealight holder
This is the perfect project to introduce yourself to adding texture to wood.
This project will not only be a great conversation starter, it will also help keep you on time.
The Gift That Keeps On Giving
There are times when you need to elevate things such as napkins, a sugar dish or even salt and pepper shakers on a table. This project will leave you with the perfect solution. It will also teach you a lot about using a simple shop-made press to work with veneer to make wood parts for all sorts of situations.
Getting kids into the shop to work on a joint project can be difficult to do at times – not with this project.
Bending wood is one of the most exciting and magical things a woodworker will ever experience.
Exquisite materials and a stylish design come together to make this living room centerpiece.
Build an Electric Guitar – Part 2
In this second of a two-part series, we take a look at how the neck is made, the fret work is completed and, finally, how to apply a finish to this beautiful instrument.
