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Build your own version of this slab furniture project, which puts square edges on the outside and live edges on a meandering middle path highlighted with tinted glass.

Watch the transformation of this old bench go from yuck to wow with some outdoor paint and the Homeright Finish Max HVLP sprayer.

Take a new direction in Mother’s Day gifting this year, and check out two projects from Black Dog Salvage, a Woodcraft partner that specializes in the reclamation, repurposing and resale of architectural, commercial, and industrial elements and fixtures. The Roanoke, Virginia-based company has its own DIY-TV show – Salvage Dawgs – and also creates custom pieces from salvaged items.

Loose tenons and tapered parts combine for easy-to-build elegance.All-wood chairs are great, but sometimes you want to settle into something a little cozier. I designed this cushioned easy chair to serve for comfortable reading or TV viewing.

Keep it together with an organizer you can make from lumber leftovers.

It will mean more to Mom if you make it from your heart and hands for Mother’s Day. Woodcraft has everything you can make Mom feel extra special with by creating that special gift in your woodshop!

Winter can be such a challenge when it comes to keeping the kids busy and engaged.  Why not make them a new toy or game?  If you don’t have children or grandchildren, or nieces and nephews of your own, you can make something to donate to a shelter or even to sell at an online auction site. 

Woodcraft’s got your Halloween covered with projects, patterns, plans, and much more!

Making Christmas decorations is a great way to get into the holiday spirit, but it’s also a very effective way to make use out of small or awkward sized scrap wood that’s cluttering up the shop or just being thrown away.   Even old, worn out and broken decorations that have been cast aside can be given new life by adding them as accents to these projects.