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Yeah I thought about that, but I'm worried that the bottoms won't be secure enough if I am only attaching the shelves? Thanks for the reply.

Hey all. I'm building a small closet under the stairs. It's a pretty tight fit but we need the closet space. It's just a simple set of panels, but I'm not sure how to attach it to the wall. There are...

I agree with Van. Get a Ryobi router table and a straight bit, probably about $120.

I have a CMT and Freud, each for different stock thickness. They're virtually interchangeable quality wise. Both good bits, whiteside makes them too, in general I think Whiteside makes better bits...

Thanks everyone for the replies. That gives me a great start.

Brian

At the end of May, I'm going to Portland Oregon to help my dad build out his kitchen cabinets. He has a distribution business up there so I suggested maybe we could try to buy wholesale, but it would...

I did this by making a rabbet in the rails and stiles of 1" x 1/2". Then built a frame from a solid piece of 1/2" MDO Ply and painted them black. Installed the fabric with the 3M 77 adhesive and some...

Yeah you can rip on a RAS. The limiting factor is the width of the cut is limited by the amount of travel on the arm.

I started woodworking on a RAS and used it for ripping from time to time. You...

I just finished my kitchen cabinets that were painted. I used poplar for the rails and stiles and MDO plywood for the panels. Worked great. For me dinging the poplar wasn't an issue. I would try to...

I was taught that you want to try and stand outside of the miter slots, either to the left or right, depending on the width of the stock. So the answer is that it depends on what I am cutting (as in...

To answer the question, no I've never built anything that I thought was 100% perfect. There's always something, if not, the wood will move (which is actually worse because you make something you...

OK maybe I'm in a conversation that I'll regret, but as an economist, there is an answer to this question. The answer of wether or not Ikea is good for craftsmen is it depends on what kind of...

Well I haven't given this a huge amount of thought. Areas that I have found I can pull some money out of a project. In no particular order:
See if you can make the verticals 1/2" and the outer...

Looks really nice. Do you have a link to those plans?

Ah life..... she is full of compromises.....

I use board buddies and I like them a lot. I usually only use one toward the rear of the saw just to keep the stock flat against the back of the fence. I find that it is very helpful to have a second...

I agree with David above. I have a Ridgid 1450 and it works great. After replacing a few (3-4) Shop Vac's I think the Ridgid line is the best right now in this category. If I wanted to spend more I...

I've built about 6 or so solid body bass guitars. Of course you already know that you don't really need a tablesaw for guitars. There's an article by Gary Rogowski in fine woodworking that goes...

I tried a shop apron for a while and couldn't get used to it. Either the pockets would get caught on something or I would forget to take it off when I go an run an errand, and it ended up sitting in...

OK this weekend I'm going to be rebuilding some jigs that are either too awkward or too big or too old. What should I use for the bar stock? I normally just use some Oak or Hard Rock Maple.

I think they are very sturdy. I ended up putting up longer 16ga 1x1" steel tubing that were secured to the floor and up the wall (using special lags called tightlock or something) then put up the 12"...

You can check out The Pocket Hole Drilling Jig Project Book by Danny Proulx (here is a link from Amazon). There are a couple of cabinet projects with pocket holes in this book.

I borrowed a copy...

If the 690 and the 1617's aren't working for you then you need to step it up a notch, because both those routers are best in their class, so if you break them to the point you call them junk then you...

I can honestly say that if you have the space and the budget, this is the one tool where bigger is better. As you can see we have moved from 8 to 12 to 16. I would look at the 12 if I had a budget...

I have a Freud LU97R010 Double Sided Laminate/Melamine blade that I have been very impressed with. I built my kitchen using only pre-finished birch and MDO (that we painted) and there was absolutely...