Seven Woodworking Plans for Your Wood Shop

No matter how you intend to use the cabinets, basic cabinet design is all based on the same common principles. In this set of free woodworking plans, we take you step-by-step through building a set of wall cabinets for your garage or wood shop. These sturdy cabinets will store a considerable amount of items, but can be adapted easily for use in the kitchen, bath or wherever you choose.

A woodworker can never seem to have enough table space in the workshop. This set of free woodworking plans can help solve the problem. This full-size portable workshop table can be moved around on built-in, retractable rollers, but the legs drop onto the floor to keep the table from moving when you're working on a project. These plans include step-by-step instructions so you can build your own portable shop table.

Whether working inside in the wood shop, outside or on a job site, a sturdy set of sawhorses are invaluable. In this set of free woodworking plans, you can learn how to build a very strong, durable yet stackable, heavy-duty wooden sawhorses. This pair of sawhorses will support hundreds of pounds, whether you're using them as the basis for a table or to hold up a platform for a mini-scaffold. I've never found a stronger pair of sawhorses, and you can build them from a handful of 2x4s in only a couple of hours.

For many years, carpenters have used variations of the classic wooden toolbox to carry their tools to and from the job site. This timeless classic is easy to build and requires no mechanical fasteners. It will hold quite a few tools, and gives an air of professionalism to those woodworkers who choose to carry their tools in one. It's a fun woodworking project to build, and not at all difficult.

The compound miter saw is probably the most precise method for cross-cutting compound angles. A good compound miter saw is rather heavy and cumbersome for a portable tool, and when working outside of the wood shop, a portable miter saw stand is almost a necessity. With this set of free woodworking plans, you can build a sturdy, portable miter saw stand complete with adjustable stock supports for each side of the saw.

A featherboard makes cutting some narrower pieces of stock on a table saw or router table much safer and simpler. In this set of free woodworking plans, learn how to easily build your own featherboards for use on any woodworking project.

There are many types of woodworking projects that call for cutting stock into circular shapes. Such projects include round table tops, archways and other circular forms. Attempting to cut these shapes by hand on a jigsaw or band saw would not be precise enough, but with a jig, one can easily cut these shapes with precision. In this set of free woodworking plans, learn how to build a simple but very effective circle cutting jig for use with your band saw.