Wood Preparation

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Your benchtop planer takes a beating in normal use. Give it routine maintenance for glassy-smooth results board after board.

There's no such thing as the perfect board. But you can salvage a lot of "challenged" lumber using these tricks.

The WOOD team spends the day at Senior Design Editor Kevin Boyle's home, milling lumber from logs.

I’m building some outdoor projects out of pressure-treated lumber and am wondering what finish, if any, I should use?

Help your projects avoid the snap, crackle, or pop caused by wood expanding and shrinking.

Whether you make a router insert plate or buy one, you can attach it to your tool and install it in your table with just a few easy steps.

Ripping boards into thinner slabs is a snap with a bandsaw and these easy-to-follow techniques.

Get as much clear lumber as possible from knotty woods.