Have You Ever Used A Tick Stick?

Hackaday: Picture this: you have an irregular opening you need to fabricate a piece to fill. Maybe it’s the stonework of a fireplace; maybe it’s the curved bulkhead of a ship. How do you get that shape? The most “Hackaday” answer would be to 3D scan the area, create a CAD model based on the point cloud, and route the shape with CNC.

A Guide to Cutting Plywood With Zero Wasted

Family Handyman: Around our house and workshop, plywood is king. Strong with a natural aesthetic, we use it for everything from custom countertops to artful bookshelves. But, in recent years, plywood costs have doubled, which means it really pays to use each piece as efficiently as possible.

Makera Carvera Air Makes Milling a Breeze

Make:: Matt Stultz reviewed the middle of Makera’s lineup, the Carvera Air, when it first came out in 2024. Since then we’ve spent some time on a production machine and come to appreciate even more what Makera has done to make CNC milling easier.

How an award-winning high school woodworking program preps students for careers

Woodworking Network: At Cedar Ridge High School in Hillsborough, North Carolina, the woodshop is a serious career and technical education (CTE) program where students have the opportunity to become industry-ready woodworkers.

Researchers develop transparent wood as an efficient alternative to glass

www.designboom.com: a team of materials scientists at the university of maryland have developed a new method of producing transparent wood. used primarily for housing, paper, and fuel, timber is one step closer to replacing glass and plastic windows. the advancement marks a potential new avenue for environmentally sustainable construction as transparent timber exceeds glass in its production efficiency and thermal insulation.

How to Paint a Wood Table

This Old House: Mauro Henrique demonstrates how to refinish an old piece of furniture with the help of Kevin O’Connor. Mauro’s client has a table that belonged to her grandmother and she would like to spruce it up so it can come out of the basement and be showcased in her home.

Hart 20V Circular Saw Review HPCS01

Pro Tool Reviews: The Hart 20V circular saw is a 6 1/2-inch cordless model you can find at your local Walmart. We had a variety of 2x lumber and 3/4-inch OSB subfloor cuts to make and used it as an opportunity to see how this model stacks up in the DIY market.

How to Build a Leaning Ladder Bookcase

This Old House: A ladder bookcase is a great addition to any room. Best of all, you can easily build your own for a third of the price you’d pay at the store. Follow the directions below to learn how to build a DIY ladder bookcase.

Adam Savage's One Day Builds: Lathe Infrastructure Upgrades!

Tested: Just because Adam is under lockdown, doesn't mean he's stopped building! In fact, quite the contrary: Adam is busier than ever working on new builds and shop improvement projects. This is the first in a series of One Day Builds that Adam has filmed himself from the cave, upgrading the infrastructure around his lathe by organizing his many chucks and live centers.

Earth Day 2020 and sustainability in woodworking

Woodworking Network: Half a century ago, on April 22, 1970, over 20 million Americans took to the streets in hundreds of cities around the country to protest the complete lack of interest (in) environmental conservation. Factories were free to pollute our air and water without any legal consequence. Oil spills were frequent and devastating environmental disasters.

No Dialogue, Just a Guy Woodturning This Into a Speaker

TwistedSifter: Woodworking artist Matt Jordan turns this lovely piece of oak into a functioning speaker.

A Path to Razor-Sharp Estimating

Remodeling: The typical progression of a building contractor is this: You work as a carpenter, start doing work on your own, hire a helper, hire an experienced carpenter, start doing more complicated work, and, before you know it, you’re doing a half million in volume and realize you don’t actually know if you’re making any money or not. At that point, you start looking for resources that can help you move from busy to profitable.

Pro Tip: Caring for Circular Saw Blades

Pro Tool Reviews: Unless you’re whittling a piece that you chopped from a tree, all the wood in carpentry projects came into contact with a circular saw blade at some point. But the circular saw blade is easy to neglect. We know when the blade gets dull but how are you caring for circular saw blades between the time you buy it and when you throw it in the trash?

Flexible Wood from dukta finds rising interest

Woodworking Network: Dukta Flexible Wood is a sandwich of engineered wood and felt layers that allows the material to be bent and shaped readily into curves and contours. Dukta's Zurich location serves as a development and design office, from which it helps clients develop new applications based on its internationally patented dukta incision process, for use in architectural interiors and for numerous products.

Your role in the responsible and sustainable hardwood supply chain

Woodworking Network: With several species and grades available, hardwoods – whether American or exotic – are cost-effective and high-quality materials suitable for a range of applications and industries, from furniture and cabinetry manufacturing to interior design and construction. An added benefit is that hardwoods are often considered an environmentally friendly and renewable resource – one that, thanks to sustainable forest management, can be harvested with minimal environmental impact and regenerated to ensure there’s always an abundant and continued supply.

A CNC Woodworking Tool That Does The Hard Parts

Hackaday: Drawn along in the wake of the 3d printing/home shop revolution has been the accessibility of traditional subtractive CNC equipment, especially routers and mills. Speaking of, want a desktop mill? Try a Bantam Tools (née Othermachine) Desktop Milling Machine or a Carvey or a Carbide 3D Nomad. Tiny but many-axis general purpose mill? Maybe a Pocket NC. Router for the shop? Perhaps a Shapeoko, or an X-Carve, or a ShopBot, or a… you get the picture. The MatchSticks device is a CNC tool for the shop and it might be classified as a milling machine, but it doesn’t quite work the way a more traditional machine tool does. It computer controls the woodworker too.