Page 4 - Wood

Make sure your wood has dried to a proper moisture level before beginning any project.

While it won't win any hardwood beauty contests, yellow poplar is durable, reasonably priced and easy to use.

Saving money by drying your lumber may not be the answer for every woodworker, but the basics shown here demonstrate that it is within the reach and skills of the average person.

Prized for everything from gunstocks to sideboards, black walnut is a perennial woodworking darling.

Save money when you dry your own lumber in a dehumidification kiln with a design based on the traditional backyard shed.

Hard maple is an abundant species offering ample uses and several fine figures.

Black cherry lumber is one of our most coveted furniture-grade hardwoods.

Learn more about the histories and uses of common woodworking woods.

If you can learn the tendency of how certain grain patterns react to being cut, you can avoid tearout. Looking for those predictable patterns is called "reading the grain."

It’s enough to break your heart. As you near completion on a project, you find a small split or crack. This recently happened to me on a raised panel door that was nearly done. Try this simple and effective repair tip usingCA (cyanoacrylate) glue.

When you shop for woodturning blanks, many of them are coated in wax. Should you scrape off the wax before turning? Leave the wax on the blank?