How to account for a room that is not plumb, level, or square when you have a truckload of expensive (and square) boxes to install.

Marking, cutting, and glue-up tips that you may have forgotten about

Use scraps to offset the straight edge allowing you to cut each edge of the dado with opposite edges of a router bit

 

Rather than cover the joint between drywall and door frame, celebrate the gap with an architectural reglet

Masking tape and a sharp knife are hard to beat for production precision

Two reasons: you're not paying attention, or you're doing it wrong

When the humps don't match the bumps, you need a second molding profile—or you can eliminate the plumb cut

Q: How many holes will Matt cut before finding the leak?

A: As many as it takes!

A couple of sticks are all you need to scribe smooth arcs that cover wide work pieces

Four jigs are all you need to set up a mobile cabinet shop

Created by a cabinet maker, this simple jig allows you to quickly gauge the relative elevation of multiple points.

Condense all of the critical measurements of a room onto the sides of one stick

Wall beds are a great way to add utility to a spare room. The hardware is the heart of the system

Split a detail with the first cut and then inch up to the second cut. Slowly.

A quick and dirty crown molding tip

An organic post base connection that sheds water and looks like a million bucks

From sizing up the job to setting the newel posts on a stain-grade set of winders

A film on the many aspects of woodworking that go into building things with wood—including a pre-robot look at technology displacing workers