Take Your Projects from Good to GREAT!

What separates a “nice” project from a “great” one can be simply several details better executed.

Careful selection of the stock for the bottom version of this door makes this highly-visible assembly more appealing than the top version where parts were cut to simply get the most parts from each board.

Learn to recognize those details, then improve the skills required to create them, and watch the quality of your projects soar. To help you down that path, we’ve gathered the collective wisdom of the WOOD® staff. We all wish we’d been told (or had paid attention to) these lessons when we started woodworking.

Before the build

Make mock-ups. These help you visualize a project’s proportions and how it fits into a space. Build quickly using lightweight materials held together with tape, hot glue, staples, brads, or pocket screws, getting only as detailed as you need [below]. A box matching a project’s outside dimensions may be enough to determine if it fits well in its…

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