Hardwood Flooring
Home Improvement: Walk into any room and chances are that the first thing you notice is the flooring. Very few flooring options have the visual impact of hardwood. It exudes warmth, elegance, and natural charm.
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Home Improvement: Walk into any room and chances are that the first thing you notice is the flooring. Very few flooring options have the visual impact of hardwood. It exudes warmth, elegance, and natural charm.
Woodchuckle: Jerry had an obsessive-compulsive personality. In behavioural psychology circles he would be termed “loony as a fruit bat.”
Woodworkers' Gallery: This workbench by Edward G. Robinson, from Burlington, Ontario, incorporates a unique bench top design.
Product News: When you think of granite it is likely in the context of the flooring often found in prestigious public and commercial buildings, in fountains, columns, monuments and other public structures. Or you may associate granite in its polished form with kitchen countertops, shower surrounds, fireplaces, or bar tops. But how about table saw tops or jointer fences?
Craft Project: While canes (or walking sticks) aren’t as trendy or as prevalent as they once were, the dapper woodworker can still be the envy of the neighborhood with this unique and stylish ‘cane saw’.
Shop Jig: Safety should always be ‘top of mind’ when working in the shop.
Carving Project: Give anybody a knife and a piece of wood and their natural instinct is to start making notches. The art of chip carving is a natural progression of this tendency, and has been used by most cultures to decorate everyday objects effectively with a few, simple tools.
Intarsia Project: This is an enjoyable intarsia project that uses the trace method for pattern transfer.
Furniture Project: What could be more comfortable than curling up on a cool evening with a nice quilt, a good book and a cup of tea? This Arts & Crafts influenced rack is the perfect place to display and store your quilts.
Easy Project: With stories about landfill sites nearing capacity appearing regularly in the news, it’s hard not to be aware of the growing need to divert some of this material by recycling whenever possible. Build this simple rolling recycling station to keep your recyclable material sorted and your garage or utility room tidy.
Cabinet Project: Tambour doors were first employed in France during the 1600s and their use became widespread during the 1800s with the advent of roll top desks. Today you can often find them in kitchens, mounted on built-in or movable cabinets, between the countertop and the upper cabinets. Generally they are used for storing breads or small appliances.
Skill Builder: A basic selection of straight, edge profiling, and joinery bits will handle just about all your routing needs. But for jobs that are a bit out of the ordinary, you need a different kind of router bit.
Air Tools: From framing a wall, to using tiny headless pins on a fine piece of furniture, compressed air drives a multitude of tools that make these tasks a breeze.
Shop Tools: For a lot of shop projects and home maintenance tasks, less is more.
Puzzle Project: There is nothing like a simple puzzle to occupy a lazy afternoon. The best types of puzzles are those that are hard to put away, and this project is definitely one of those.