How To Build The Wood Projects You Want, Without A Lot Of Tools, Space, Or Experience
Hey guys, I’m Adam, and I’m a self-taught woodworker.
Quick question…
Do you want to start creating projects like these:
Hey guys, I’m Adam, and I’m a self-taught woodworker.
Quick question… Do you want to start creating projects like these:
And would you like to do it without a large shop full of expensive tools…
Then keep reading, I’ll show you how.
The key is building and utilizing the right shop-enhancing projects…
By doing so, your woodworking skills will skyrocket.
You can practically eliminate the “Human-Error” element from your cuts and joints.
And this results in increased precision and accuracy.
Woodworking becomes a methodical, simple series of steps…
You’ll always know what to do next…
How to make cuts match and joints line up…
How to do it all with consistency…
And it all starts with developing
A “Jig Mindset”
What I’m about to show you is a collection of projects I’ve designed, built, and used over the last few years.
These exact projects have allowed me to transform my garage into a fully functional Wood Shop.
Certain jigs and sleds have allowed me to master all sorts of cuts, and advanced joinery techniques.
Once I started using these jigs and sleds…
I immediately saw huge improvement in my…
* Precision
* Consistency
* Accuracy
* Squareness
* Joinery
And I’m convinced anyone can build these, and get the same results.
I’ve never been “formally” trained, I got my woodworking degree from Youtube Academy…. (not a real thing)…
But in doing that, I figured out
What To Avoid And What To Focus On
Because I also learned:
* Youtube pro-woodworkers have big shops
* They have all the big expensive tools they need
* They use and teach “Shop Class Woodworking”
Instead, we should be learning “Small Shop Woodworking”.
That’s how we get the same, professional results, but without the big professional shop.
As I figured this stuff out, and started building my own tools and tool-enhancers…
This allowed me to quickly advance my woodworking skills, by
* Saving Money
* Saving Space
* Improving my Capabilities
In no time, I was able to master my table saw…
I developed a simple and efficient work flow…
I was turning heads, and getting requests for custom orders left and right…
And I finally felt like a good woodworker!
If you’d like that same feeling, then:
Here’s What You Should Build…
- Precision crosscutting
- Duplicating pieces
- Simple repeatability
- Safely handle small pieces
- Cutting thin strips for inlay or curved edge banding
- Quick 45 degree miters
- Expandability for additional attachments as needed
- Safe and Simple vertical cuts
- Great for Raised Panels,
- Cutting notches,
- Making tenons,
- Cutting tongues,
- Cutting rabbets (edge-dados)
- Making edge-grooves
- Cleans and Squares up edges
- Basic edge jointing
- Prep for panel glue ups
- Precision repeating tapered legs
- Squaring up drawer faces
- Evening up gaps around cabinet doors
- Custom angles
- Simplifies and expedites the mortising process
- Duplicate easily across multiple pieces and sides
- Works for standard and end-grain mortises
- Works with standard and loose tenon joinery
- Great for detail-work and dovetailing
- No need for a big heavy-duty woodworkers bench with built-in vise
- The Moxon Vise creates an elevated surface on which to work
- Dog holes allows for surface clamping
- Use of pipe clamps saves money and creates a quick-release, quick-set jaw
- Vise easily hangs on your wall when not in use
- Thin-ripping strips made easy - Make thin strips identical and safely using your table saw's fence and this push shoe.
- Supports various thicknesses - Quickly adjust the elevation of the leveling guide so the push shoe rests flat on the stock, regardless of how thick it is.
- Safe and stable design - Push thru the entire cut with the adjustable guide riding on the table saw surface, making it very stable and safer than other designs.
- Solid double-layer plywood top - easier to build and simple to changeout if you ever find the need
- Tons of storage space - Includes 8 drawers to immediately help you get organized in your shop.
- Hardwood drawer slides - Discover the simple, less expensive, and super effective way to use strips of hardwood to make long lasting, smooth acting drawer slides.
- Quick-clamp hanging rack - easily accessible rack to hang your quick-clamps on, and anything else you want.
- Much more efficient use of space than a traditional woodworkers work bench
- Instantly adds functionality and safety to your table saw operations.
- Doubles as a solid and durable work surface or assembly table.
- Lower shelf storage space, great for jigs and small power tools.
- Size it to fit your table saw specifically - width and height.
- Fits standard sized routers and trim routers
- Designed to fit commercially available feather boards
- Dust collection built in
- Plenty storage and hanging space on the sides for collets, wrench, push sticks, bits, and more.
- Large base makes it stable, and easy to clamp to your work bench.
- Simple design makes it easier to customize, and lightweight so you can store it to the side when you don't need it.
- Picture Frame Clamping Jig - Clamp entire mitered picture frame together in 1 step.
- Drawer Pull Installation Jig - Mark precise locations easily, quickly, for your drawer pulls and knobs.
- Runner Fine-Tuning Jig - Perfect for removing 1/64" at a time from thin strips of wood. Great for fine-tuning sled runners and inlay strips.
- Fence system - Accurate and repeatable drilling made easy.
- Integrated track system - you can build additional attachments for your drill press using the track system.
- Organized bit storage - No more misplaced drill bits!
- Space saving design, holds MORE clamps in LESS wall space
- Make it as long or as short as you need it for the clamps you have
- Works with F-style bar clamps, C-clamps, pipe clamps, parallel jaw clamps, and quick clamps
- Attaches to your Premium Table Saw Sled
- Allows for a perfectly angled cut that is identical each time
- Cuts precision pins, and perfectly matched tails, creating beautiful dovetail joinery
- Much easier to learn - Using this jig is intuitive and practical. It's way simpler than the traditional method of handcutting dovetails, and looks much more authentic than machined dovetails using a router.
- Finally - A shop made jig for cutting box joints that works for different size joints, and different sized fingers!
- Works in conjunction with your table saw's miter gauge, so you can quickly get through the build process and start making drawers and boxes!
- Extended fence allows for cutting notches or crosslap joints at any customizable distance along the fence, consistently. Perfect for grid-pattern projects like lattice work and grid-top coffee tables.
- Strengthen miter joints so they'll last a lifetime.
- Simple process to cut precision splines.
- Perfect for picture frames and mitered boxes.
- A simple way to add beauty and elegance to projects.
And there you have it!
Here’s a quick recap…
- Moxon Vise
- Benchtop Router Table
- Drill Press Caddy
- Picture Frame Clamping Jig
- Router Mortising Jig
- Space-Saving Clamp Hanger
- Super-Storage Work Bench
- Drawer Pull Installation Jig
- Table Saw Outfeed Table
- Thin Rip Push Block
- Runner Fine-Tuning Jig
- Premium Table Saw Sled
- Taper / Jointer Sled
- Vertical Cut Auxiliary Fence
- Table Saw Dovetailing Jig
- Table Saw Spline Cutting Jig
- Table Saw Box Joint Jig
Build these projects and you’ll be AMAZED at what you can accomplish in your wood shop!
Now, at this point you have pretty much 2 options.
1 – you could attempt to build these on your own, using my pictures and tips as a guideline on how to design your own versions.
or 2…
I can provide you with incredibly detailed, highly rated, professional plans, for each and every project shown above.
That’s what Wood Shop Essentials is all about!
Guys, this is a big part of what I do for a living, I design projects like these, and I build really high-quality plans for them.
Just check out a few of the emails I’ve received from happy customers:
“…My first thought was that the sled plans alone are worth what I paid for access. I’m not much of a woodworker but I think with WSE I can get a lot better.”
~ Jerry S. from New Caney, Texas
“…The plans are great. Some of the best I have seen for detail and explaining things to this noob…
I finished the sled and the instructions and drawings were great. Best I have seen. Better than Woodsmith, Wood, Woodworkers Guild of America. Definitely better than Shopnotes…”
~ Brad D. from Lenexa, Kansas
“Thanks for the plans. I think it took me 2 pretty solid days and every tool in my arsenal. Now I need a project to use it on. Note the drill press caddy in the background. Love that one, too.”
~ Don P. from Fort Myers, Florida
“I love the wood plans. Very easy to follow, everything is in such detail.”
~ Ken F. from Ocean Springs, Mississippi
