Additional Articles

Woodwork DIY Video – Inside View of Ted’s Woodworking Video

This video shows you the woodwork DIY videos inside Ted’s Woodworking member area once you have made the purchase:

Click here to visit Ted’s Woodworking.

Woodworker plans Review – Video

Take a look at a video review of Ted’s Woodworking Plans and Projects:

Click here to visit Ted’s Woodworking.

Wood Projects For Everybody

Those of us who had grown up on the farm are likely to be familiar with wood. Some of us probably had a lot of fun trying to make a dream item with wood. Wood projects can bring a lot of fun time to childhood. When we were young we were just hammering away without much thought or concern about the craftsmanship in this activity. Woodworking can be much more than just flexing our muscles and perspiring profusely.

Woodworking – Bonding Time ?

To a child the time spent with his father in doing some woodworking can be a wonderful bonding time. To the father it can be a lot of relationship building with the son. The father can also teach the son not only about woodwork but a good time to teach about life and other things. If you are able to involve the whole family in a project like making the dining table and chairs, you will have more than a complete dining set at the end of the project. You will have a great family time together.

Plan – Determines The Success Of Your Wood Projects

Woodworking plan plays a very important role in the whole DIY project. As mentioned in other article on this site and by many people, a good plan is absolutely crucial in any woodwork project. Good plan ensures no hiccups and a nice looking piece of work at the end. ‘Bad’ plan can give you a lot of headache and may also sink the whole project. By that I mean the project can be so distorted you simply give up without completing it. What constitutes a good plan? The most basic is the measurements. Better features would include step-by-step instructions. Other features are already discussed in previous article Plan For Woodwork.

Where To Find Good Woodworking Plan?

Where do you find good plan? There are many FREE plans on the internet for you to download. Can you use FREE plan? Yes, you definitely can, provided the critical features are in place. Are all paid plans good? Not necessarily. Again, you have to evaluate a plan against some of the critical features which you must have, especially if you are not very experienced and well-versed in the craft. It’s probably better to pay some money for a good plan than going for FREE plan and end up sinking the whole project, which will waste more of your money on the materials and other stuff. In fact, if you do some comparison, the paid plans are not too expensive. I will mention two paid plans below for your reference.

Ted’s Woodworking Plans And Projects

Ted’s Woodworking is developed by Ted McGrath. Ted is an experienced and savvy woodworker and handyman. His Woodworking product comes with 16,000+ plans. That is a whole lot of plans and projects, more than enough for many lifetimes. The newbies to woodworking will find Ted’s plans clear and concise, with step-by-step instructions for each project. Experienced and professional woodworkers will find the selection of plans and projects a value. Ted’s Woodworking is sold for $67 with 4 bonuses and a 60-day money back guarantee. Ted’s plans can be downloaded immediately upon purchase. You can visit Ted’s Woodworking by clicking here.

John Metz’s Woodworking4home Package

The other one is Woodworking4home Package by John Metz. John is also a professional woodworker. John’s product has over 14,000 plans and projects. Again, the number of plans is probably overwhelming initially. Once you start building more projects, you will find that you have plenty of plan choices. John’s product is sold for $49 with 60-day money back guarantee. Again John’s plans are also downloadable once you have made the payment. You can visit John’s Woodworking4Home Package here.

The Choice Is Yours

Ted McGrath’s or John Metz’s plans? The choice is yours. Once you have obtained good plans, you can start work on your wood projects with peace of mind and enjoy this wonderful craft.

Plans For Chair Review

Plans for chair seem to be a much sought after item on search engine because building chairs appears to be one of the hottest woodwork diy projects today. Depending on how you tackle your woodwork diy projects, building chairs can be a greater challenge compared to building benches. The satisfaction of sitting on a chair you built yourself or seeing someone enjoying the chair you built is sensational. Only those who had been through it know the ecstatic feeling of the moment. Whichever way you look at it, building chair is a good project for you to try your hands on. But, you must have good plans for chair for whatever chair you are trying to build. So, make sure you have a set of accurate plans for chair at hand before you start building.

Plans For Chair

Whether you are building a chair or building a house, the plans for chair or house are extremely important.  Building chair is not like nailing a few pieces of wood together to form a square box. The fine details involved in building chair are the fun part and also the messy part. If you miss out slightly on some of the finer details, your chair project may be gone with the wind. So, the finer details inside the plans for chair are what you need to watch out for. The measurements of the plans for chair are extremely crucial in determining whether you will complete the project.  Make sure you have proper plans for chair with everything you need to start your chair project.
Here, we will review the plans for chair by Ted Mcgrath, a professional woodworker, educator and a Member of AWI.

Review and Sneak Peak of Plans for Chair

First of all, Ted is running a special offer now by giving away 75 plans for chair when you purchase his 16,000 woodwork plans for $67. That is less than half a cent for each plan. Even if you only get the 75 plans for chair, that is less than 90 cents for each plan.

75 Plans for Chair Plus 16,000 Woodworking Plans With Step-By-Step Blueprints, Diagrams and Guides!

Wow! 75 Plans for chairs ! That is quite a number of chairs, and will take you some time to build and complete.

Now, let’s take a look at what Ted’s plans for chair are like:

The above is part of the plan for a folding chair.  Ted’s plans come with detailed, easy to follow instructions:

Ted’s blueprints and schematics are detailed:

Detailed Schematics

Detailed Blueprint

Grab Ted’s 75 plans for chair + 16,000 woodworking plans and projects before the time limited bonuses run out.

Ted also throws in a bunch of time-limited bonuses:

This is the award winning “DWG/CAD Plan Viewer”, which allows you to edit, modify or even create your own woodworking plans. This bonus alone is worth hundreds of dollars, but it’s time-limited!

This bonus is a lifetime membership access to over 150 premium woodworking videos on a wide array of woodworking topics, hosted by veteran woodworkers. Comes with easy-to-follow step by step video instructions. This ia also a time-limited bonus.

This bonus is a step-by-step detailed guide on how to make money selling your custom woodwork and it is a great addition to this package. Again a time-limited bonus!

The last time-limited bonus is the Complete Woodworking Carpentry Guides – over 200 pages of woodworking tips and tricks with detailed drawings, diagrams and photos.

Now, watch the following video review of Ted’s Woodworking Plans and Projects:

Grab Ted’s 75 plans for chair + 16,000 woodworking plans and projects before the time limited bonuses run out.

Workshop Safety

In woodworking or doing any woodwork preparation, you are dealing with tools that can cut, slice, pierce, saw, and sever. Therefore, workshop safety is a primary concern and should be taken seriously. The potential damages that can be incurred by the workshop tools, equipments and machinery can be hazardous to health and even life threatening. However, if you make your workspace hazard and fire proof, most of the accidents and hazards are avoidable. In addition, and in fact, the most important element is to work safely or at least work with precaution.

Safety Glasses or Goggles

When you are hammering, chiseling, sanding, scraping or working with power tools, you must wear your safety glasses. Whether you are wearing contact lenses or not, the hazards of something getting into the eyes are what you do not want to avoid. So, wear your goggles and protect your eyes.

Ear Protectors

Some of the woodworking machinery and power tools are extremely noisy. Their decibel levels can exceed the tolerable limits of the human ear, and therefore can damage your hearing. When you are using such tools and equipments, you should wear ear protectors to prevent any damage to your ear drums and hearing.

Work with Sharp Tools

Doesn’t that sound silly? Isn’t it true that the sharper the tool, the more damaging it is? Well, the logic is really quite simple. When a tool such as blade is dull, you tend to apply more force to  get the cutting done. When the blade is so dull that you may end up applying excessive force or strength during the cutting. When you do that, you may slip and that could cause a lot of damage depending on how you slip. So, keep your tools sharp and ready each time before you start to use them. Of course, with sharp tools, you need to store them properly and safely. Do not leave them lying on a table top where they may fall and end up cutting yourself or worse, your children running around the workshop. And, when you are working, do not allow your children to play in the workshop or around you. This may seem to be common sense, but you still hear accidents involving children while the adult was working in the workshop. So, take precaution. You do not want such accident to happen to you or your family.

Never Work When Tired, Drowsy or On Alcohol

As in anything we do in life, whether we are driving, cooking or working with woodworking tools, accidents tend to happen when we are tired. Why? When we are tired, we cannot focus and become inattentive. When we are in that state, we may drill the wrong thing or worse, cut the wrong thing! Alcohol intoxication can blur our mind and skew our judgment. So, work only when we are sober and have a clear and fresh mind.

Fire Hazards

Stains and solvents are flammable substances. Do not smoke when you have these products around your workshop. The best and safest practice is to make your workshop a no-smoking area. If you really need to smoke, take a break and smoke outside your workshop. Also, take proper care of oil rags laying around your work benches. Oilg rags are combustible spontaneously. Take proper care to store or discard them.

Finally, bear in mind that safety is a priority. Safety is not a hassle. Whether you are doing woodwork as a hobby or business, safety will always be a winner for you.