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Free Book Caddy Plans

Wood Writer — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 11:22:23 +0000

Free Book Caddy Plans

Books are not just necessities to be thrown onto shelves. With this Free Book Caddy Plan, your books can become handsome accessories to compliment your living space. It would work great in an office or living room, but would also be the perfect place to hold frequently used cook books.

The woodwork plans shows you how to create the simple but beautiful curves in the piece that make the handmade caddy look more like craft furniture that a quickly thrown together storage solution. Try using a high quality lumber and stain or paint the wood to match your decor. Just click on the image to get the full instructional woodwork how-to.

Book Caddy Plans

Free Desk Top Easel Plans

Wood Writer — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 08:03:51 +0000

Free Desk Top Easel Plans

This wood work project is a simple way to convert a desk into a drafting table or provide portable drawing space to keep crayon marks off your dining room table. This Desk Top Easel comes complete with an adjustable top and plenty of compartments to store drawing supplies. It is easily customizable and even something kids could spend an afternoon decorating.

Desk Top Easel

With a few screws, this could also become a permanent accessory to a purchased desk that needs some extra storage or act as an addition to your custom desk build. Just click on the image for a full wood work how-to guide.

Free Standing Desk Plans

Wood Writer — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:10:30 +0000

Free Standing Desk Plans

The first step to truly getting organized should be a solid desk space that can be used for a variety of purposes. This draft table-like standing desk has just enough storage to hold the necessities without becoming a desk full of junk drawers. It is angled perfectly for drafting, but why not apply that elegant and comfortable shape to the desk you would use to work from home or pay bills?

Standing desk plans

The beveled drawers and easy structure make the how-to wood project a smart looking easy build. Just click the image for the free wood project plans complete with 2-D renderings.

Simple Shelving Plans

admin — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:44:02 +0000

Shelves are needed in every home. If you want to know the basic construction techniques for a simple shelf unit, follow this link to DIY. You might call this a bookcase rather than a shelving unit, but to each his own.

The plans are not very comprehensive, but all is well since there is a video how-to. All the tools that are needed are a hammer, circular saw, drill, and tape measure.

Good luck with this simple shelf / book case plan.

Mailbox – Indoor

admin — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:02:49 +0000

This indoor mailbox is something that will ease the tension between the wife who wants to be clutter free and the husband who needs things to remain on the counter otherwise he will forget about them. This is a very basic plan that can be completed in just a couple of hours, but sometimes a simple project is what is needed. How many of us have four or five incomplete pieces laying around? Put your hands down now. Build this and cross it off of your list.

Indoor Mailbox Plans

Perfect for use in your kitchen or home office.

Bookcase Plans

admin — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:21:08 +0000

These bookcase plans are a great example of how easy it can be to build a carcass of any size that can be dressed up with trim, finished and look like a $500 piece. The example show might fall a little short of that, but once you have the construction basics, you can trim out the carcass and end up with a beautiful piece.

This free plan will give you the basic understanding of bookcase construction. It is your job to take it from there!

Good luck.

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Workstation Plans

admin — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:37:43 +0000

Computer Desk Plans - Click for Full Sized Plan

This is a workstation, computer desk, or task desk that is made from 1 single sheet of 4′ x 8′ plywood. The final width is 32″ and usually enough for a simple workstation. This is a terrific woodworking project for a school who is looking to equip a computer lab on a budget. This is also a great project for a parent looking to build a nice starter desk for their kids room. As always, this is a good project for a parent to work on with their child.

Workstation Plans

These plans were found on a personal home page which is no longer active. Clicking on the image (above) will give you the best version of the plan that we have available.

Wooden Garbage Can Plans

admin — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 15:41:03 +0000

Have you ever wanted a nice garbage can for your office, but couldn’t find something that was stylish and matched? As most woodworkers know, this is the point where we usually say “I could make that”. If you have a nice wooden desk set, it might have come with a wast basket. However, they generally include a was basket that might hold a few pieces of paper and not the volume that most of us create after simply discarding junk mail.

This wooden waste basket is ample in size and you could always modify the plan to make it larger or smaller.

Update: 4/11/2011

Last good URL for plans: http://www.canadianhomeworkshop.com/index.php?ci_id=2620&la_id=1

Unfortunately, this plan moved to a new location. Many of the larger magazine sites will do this. Don’t ask me why, but they will scrap tons of woodworking content, and plans, when they move to a new content management technology. Here is what we found on their website describing the plan. Unfortunately, the additional drawings are no longer available.

A wastepaper basket with a lot of good ideas thrown in

Toss out any notion that simple construction makes for a less-than-elegant project and build this stylish wastepaper basket. The tall stance and gently tapered sides are inspired by old maple sap buckets, and the Baltic birch plywood and stripped-down construction are a nod to Scandinavian design of the 1960s.

Top image: Baltic Birch is the aristocrat of plywoods — a layered sandwich of thin veneers that’s strong and lightweight with clean edges that don’t need disguising.

Four of a Kind
Begin by cutting four 13″ x 19″ blanks from 6 mm Baltic birch plywood. Sandwich the four pieces together with double-sided tape, so you can cut all the sides at once. Lay out the tapered sides by measuring 1/2″ in on the top, and 3″ in on the bottom. I free-handed these cuts on my bandsaw about 1/16″ outside the lines, then cleaned up the edges on a jointer. You could use a tablesaw, but you’ll need to fashion a jig to cut the tapers. Pop the pieces apart and drill finger holes in two of the pieces using a 1″ bit. I used a Forstner bit, and backed up the plywood with some scrap stock to ensure a clean cut.

Playing the Slots
To mill the single dado on the inside face of each side member, I used a tablesaw with the blade height set to half the thickness of the plywood and the fence set at 1/2″ from the blade. If one face of the plywood is better than the other, mill the dado on the bad side. Make one pass along the edge of all four sides, then adjust the fence a bit and make a second pass. Cut a test scrap at the same time, so as you continue adjusting the fence you can determine when the slot is the right width. Run a bead of glue in each slot and assemble the sides, being careful, of course, to keep everything square. To clamp everything tight I used surgical tubing stretched around the bottom and four lightweight bar clamps for the top.

No Math Skills Required
To make the bevelled edges on the bottom and the bottom blocks, use the assembled sides as an angle gauge. Set the whole assembly on the tablesaw bottom end down, and adjust the angle of the blade against one of the sides. Now set the fence 7″ from the blade and cut the four edges of the bottom. With the fence repositioned 1/2″ from the blade, run a small scrap of hardwood through it, still set at the same angle, and cut the bottom blocks from this piece. Drop the bottom into the assembled sides and it will settle into the right location. Nudge it around a bit to make sure it’s flat, then flip everything over (friction should hold the bottom in place) and affix the bottom blocks with some glue. Masking tape will hold the blocks in place until the glue dries.

Pistachio of Raspberry?
Add visual interest to this project by finishing the inside surface only. I custom mixed the pale green milk paint for the this project, but other colours are equally handsome. Stick to pale shades’they work better with the light wood.

Rolling File Cabinet Plans

admin — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:02:49 +0000

If you have a home office, I am sure that you have come to need more and more storage. If you are a woodworker, I am guessing that you might be a bit of a pack rat as well. This plan is for a mobile file cabinet. Essentially, a file cabinet on wheels. The design is nice with inset drawer fronts. You could build an easier file cabinet, but this one has a very nice look that is clean and contemporary. This file cabinet would look great in a contemporary setting and because it is on wheels it doesn’t have to be stuck in one place.

Good luck building your rolling file cabinet. Click on the picture for the complete wood plans from ‘Popular Woodworking’

Rolling file cabinet plans