Category Workshop Tips

A garage woodworker's honest guide to choosing a compact table saw for small spaces, including the trade-offs nobody mentions in the sales copy.

A garage woodworker's honest guide to choosing a table saw for DIY projects, including the trade-offs nobody mentions until after you buy.

I've squeezed the wrong saw and then the right one into a one-car garage, and here's what actually matters when choosing between jobsite, hybrid and cabinet saws.

A first-person tour of my small garage woodworking shop, covering the tools I use weekly, the ones that gather dust, and the workarounds that keep a one-car bay functional.

I cracked my first tabletop by bolting it down flat, and here is everything about wood movement I wish I had understood before I glued it up.

After years in a two-car garage shop, these are the hand tools I actually reach for, the ones I regret buying, and why sharpening matters more than the next plane.

A first-person look at the beginner woodworking mistakes I made in my first year of garage woodworking, and the cheaper habits I use instead now.

Six years, one garage, and a reasonable amount of money spent on things I should not have bought.

A sharp cheap chisel beats a dull expensive one. Learning this properly took me an afternoon and changed my work permanently.

Jigs are how one person does repeatable work. These five cost almost nothing and I would rebuild them tomorrow.