How To Do Angle Joints with a Plate Joiner

How To Do Flat Joints with a Plate Joiner

How To Use A Plate Joiner

How To Use A Biscut Joiner

How To Use A Table Saw

Avoid Table Saw Tearout

Often a normal cut results in a tearout at the bottom of the cut. If you make a reverse seering cut before the main cut, you can avoid this problem.

Modified Box Joint Jig

My innovation on the old box joint jig. Instead of indexing fingers off the previous finger, this jig uses gearing and a screw to precisely position the wood for each cut on the saw.

How To Use a Wood Lathe

Chucking Block with Wood

Attaching Leg Braces Part 3: Building a Table with Removable Legs

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Woodworking Plans for Tables

Painting: Building a Table with Removable Legs

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No explanation needed, just watch this guy paint. Painting is the easy part.



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Cutting Leg Braces with Saw: Building a Table with Removable Legs

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Attaching Leg Braces: Building a Table with Removable Legs

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Making Threads in Table Legs: Building a Table with Removable Legs

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How To Attach Legs: Building a Table with Removable Legs

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Attaching An Apron Piece: Building a Table with Removable Legs

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Sanding Tips: Building a Table with Removable Legs

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How to Sand a Table: Building a Table with Removable Legs



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Chop Saw Cutting; Building a Table with Removable Legs

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Leg Attachment: Building a Table with Removable Legs

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Hardware Used: Building a Table with Removable Legs

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How To Attach Leg Braces: Building a Table with Removable Legs

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How to Cut Table Leg Braces With a Chop Saw: Building a Table with Removable Legs

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Measuring the Apron: Building a Table with Removable Legs

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Measurement Tips For Leg Braces: Building a Table with Removable Legs

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Woodworking Plans for Tables

Measuring Table Legs: Building Table with Removable Legs

Part 5: Measuring Table Legs

The typical table  measures 30 inches tall but the leg length also depends on the thickness of the table top. So don't cut the leg at 30 inches but measure the thickness of the top and subtract it from 30, which in this example is 28 7/8th. (the table top is 1 and 1/8th inches thick)

Safety Tips: Building a Table with Removable Legs

Using A Saw Chop: Table with Removable Legs

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Measurement Tips: How To Build A Table with Removable Legs

Part 2 of 22: Building a Table

With these apron pieces, Michael does not go end to end but he suggests that the apron piece just fits inside the line. Take a pencil and mark both sides, and this expert says you can use the calculations or do it by sight. The measurements and how to do it are in the video.

Great tip: With any project, if you break it into small bite sized steps and just work on that step, you will find it easier than thinking about all the future steps that need to be done.



Woodworking Plans for Tables

Walking Table - Legs Move Like Legs

This is a cool idea although wheels would accomplish the same thing. On the other hand, any creativity like this is good and I can see how the table might be more stable than a table with wheels. 

Amazing Fletcher Capstan Folding Table

Another round table that is ingenious, pushing it like a merry go round will spin it into a small or larger round table so you could have a few people sit there or many. I wonder how much something like this would cost or if it could be made at home (if you had the blueprint)


Collapsable Round Table

An amazing round table that expands from a four seat table to a eight person table in a matter of minutes. 

I have no idea how to make something like this or where to find the plans but maybe an inventive woodworker could make something similar.

Kreg Tool Jig

This is a commercial but if you are looking for a jig, the Kreg Tool jig might be a good choice. I personally have not used one myself by it looks good to me.



Whatever tools you use, you will need some plans such as those from Woodworking 4 Home.com

Suggestions for Woodworking Projects

This video shows many project this woodworker did over the years. Many designs that may give you some ideas. I liked his wine racks as simple projects to make as gifts for others (if you have the time and interest)



For thousands of project ideas, you should go to this site for all the plans you will ever need.

How To Sharpen Your Joiner & Plainer Knives

This video will show you how to sharpen your knives. This smart guy has created his own home made jig.

He attached a blade that needed sharpening to the beveled end and adjusts the angle until he get the angle he wants. Then he sands away until he got the right sharpness saving him trips to places that sharpen his tools and money too.

Table Saw Alignment Jig

Here's a quick and accurate method to align your table saw blade and jointer fence to 90 degrees. You could use a square measurement but this woodworker recommends using a home made jig and a dial indicator piece as in this video.  

The jig is just two pieces of wood glued together for good height, two screws to brace the jig and a dial indicator on top. If the indicator reads zero, your table saw is aligned correctly but if it is off (above zero), this method will be more accurate than eyeballing it.

How To Come Up With New Project Ideas

Another way to come up with great ideas is to use the search engines but instead of using Google, use Google images and the engine will show hundreds of pictures of things you could make out of wood. 

The choices are unlimited and you can combine the thousands of plans at this site with the original designs you find online.This video tip has been very helpful for me to choose topics and find new projects to work on.

How To Make A Japanese Screen For Your Living/Dining Room


First they measure and cut the frames. A mitre saw gives a fairly clean cut but sanding with sandpaper is required to smooth off the rough edges. Don't take too much off or you will end up with a sloppy joint. Using a corner clamp to join the pieces at 45 degree angles.


Then they make two more frames for a total of three. Once the glue is dry, they sand the corners. They stain everything with a black Japan stain for a traditional look. Also stain the 6 mm oak Tasmanian beading.

Small holes are scored to bond with 6mm x 6mm molding. The 6mm beading can easily be cut with a stanley knife but cutting all four face sides and snapping it. Use glue to hold them into place.

Then they cut the screen but place glue on the string where they cut so the string does not unravel. Run a bead of glue around the frame edge's 6mm beading. Then they put the beadings on top and place three ribs across the screen.

Repeat the whole process twice on the other two screens and when the glue dries,you can screw the three frames together with brass hinges.

This screen will look good behind your dining table project if you want to create a Japanese theme, all you need is to choose the size and pick some measurements.

Woodworking 4 Home Plans Review

Another video review about Woodworking 4 Home, a 14,000 plan guide all in one, which I totally agree with. There are some  great instruction videos, available only to customers as a bonus, but the main product is thousands of plans all downloadable to store on your computer and print as you need them. You can see the sales page at this link here.

2 X 4 Furniture Plans & Table Legs

Ana White, author of Knock-Off Wood, shows how to add spacer to her table legs in this video.

She adds some spacers with a nail gun and some glue. Just don't let the spacer split like if you hit a knot with a nail. Her method looks like it creates nice tight seams.



To get the right woodworking plans to build your project visit this link.

How To Build A Table With Removable Legs: Wood Selection

Part 1: Building a Table

In this video, Michael talks about choosing types of wood to build a table in this 22 part series. Using a thick piece of inch and eighth plywood and 2 x 2 pieces for the legs, he is going to create an apron with a 1 x 4 pine. Besides wood glue and tools, that is all the material needed for this project.

Why Buy Woodworking 4 Home?

So you are interested in to build some furniture or a woodworking project and need a little guidance... Maybe you have heard about Woodworking 4 Home and now you want to read a review...

Ok I am not going to try to sell this product to you but give you the real goods on whether you should buy this software or not.

If you are lucky, very luck you might find an unbiased review out there online but the chances of that happening are slim to none. I don't like to waste your time by giving a fluff review so I will tell it to you straight.

What is Woodworking 4 Home?

It's a book with over 14,000 blueprints, made easy enough for anyone to follow.  With 20 years experience, John Metz has been around and knows woodworking inside and out so he decided to put all his knowledge how to plan a project into one book.

If you wish to skip this review, click here to go to Woodworking 4 home


Since I can't trust anything these days, I usually research everything before I buy. Even products like Wordworking 4 Home, which has a money back guarantee, I like to check out.  After a few hours on the computer, it seems John Metz is legitimate and is a really good professional woodworker.

John is a real guy with real hands on experience so that was enough for me to take a chance and try the book.

But you want to hear more about Woodworking 4 Home, right?

Back to the details. Expect a huge download. After your computer finally tells you the software has been loaded, you will have 14,000 detailed plans on how to build anything you want. I can see how beginners, craftsmen and professionals can use this with all the blueprints, plans and step-by-step directions you need to create cool woodworking projects.

  1. Beginner to Advanced sections
  2. Printable jobs
  3. Easy to understand instructions
  4. List of materials for every project
  5. Detailed Graphics

So you will have everything you need to complete pretty much any project you want.

To skip my opinion and go directly to Woodworking 4 Home click here

Bottom Line..


This book is great because it has so much information in it. More than any one person could do. It would take years to get through a fraction of the woodworking projects in this manual.

 And if you are very experienced you will love the detail in each plan. There are no missing steps here.

The people who will benefit the most are those who like to work with wood as often as they can so if you are not going to be a regular woodworker, you might consider something else.