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Poor man's series

Poor man-s Dog for Dog-loving Woodworkers

Poor man-s Dog for Dog-loving Woodworkers

Benchtop insertion dogs Round or dowel dogs work best in the bench top if you insist on having dogs at all. Metal dogs tend to mar the wood, especially on softer woods, so wooden dowels absorb some of the pressure and reduce this risk. I made some dogs at the

Paul Sellers' 'poor man's router' gets great results

Well, with so many requests from you for a video on making a poor man’s router we had to do it and here it is. I think my naming it a poor man’s tool you may think it a poor tool, but that’s not the case. As

Making the Wall Clock - the Poor Man's Beading Tool

Making the Wall Clock - the Poor Man's Beading Tool

To form the roundovers With all of the joinery completed, I now focus on design concepts I want to soften the hard corners with a bullnose edge to the top and bottom pieces of the clock. I also want to introduce a method that slims down the appearance of the

Another poor man's router

Another poor man's router

Poor man’s router Someone recently shared with me a jobsite poor man’s router he uses regularly and I tried it out in an inspired moment recently. It’s made from a #14 (about 44mm shank it looks like) screw and block like the poor man’s beading-cum-marking gauge

Paul’s poor man’s router…

Paul’s poor man’s router…

…or tenon and housing dado trimmer par excellence. I say Paul’s because I developed it to work so effectively. Many routers are highly effective at perfecting a chiselled out housing or dado joint and the faces of tenons. They have been used for such for centuries now. The idea

Not so poor man's router - really works!

Not so poor man's router - really works!

A more refined 'not-so-poor man’s router. This is my suggestion for a simple but more advanced not-so-poor man’s router that comes from a small scrap-sized piece of harder wood, oak, (could be softer wood like pine or poplar too) 5-6" long and using only a 1/

Poor man's router - It works!

Poor man's router - It works!

When I was a lad working as an apprentice, many woodworkers didn’t have hand routers and machine router salesmen were often laughed out of the shop because a skilled craftsman could set hinges much faster than a router back then. We made any router we needed from a scrap