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These brackets wrap around the front edge of your bench and have tracks that utilize F-style clamps.

An arsenal of items to make your woodworking life more efficient

After 30 years of living in a house in Vancouver, B.C., Alan McIvor decided to convert the single-car garage into a shop.

This simple crosscut jig works in tandem with an L-fence

Aluminum carpet trim can be used as a wall hanger. Attach one piece to the wall and the other to whatever you are hanging.

Start by jointing as much of the width as you can, leaving a lip along one edge. Then remove the lip with hand planes.

Suspend your brushes in water or solvent with a dowel or skewer pushed through a hole you've drilled above the ferrule.

With this simple auxiliary table, you can use your workbench to support bandsaw work.

Torque a Spanish windlass to keep the miters tight

These knobs are made by cutting a circle out of a square blank but then using the scraps, connecting them with two sticks in the middle that are joined with a simple lap joint.