WOOD Magazine

WOOD magazine is the world’s most popular woodworking publication. Every issue includes clear, fully illustrated plans for all types of projects from gifts to furniture, skill-building tips and techniques, and hard-hitting tool reviews. Plus watch helpful videos that bring the pages to life for woodworkers of all skill levels.

WOOD Magazine • Issue No. 301 | March 2025 Vol. 42, No. 1

Plane Pickin’s • These plane facts will help you discover the bliss of seeing wispy curls and a glass-smooth surface. It’s an addiction. Using a well-tuned hand plane can cause distractibility, a lost sense of time, and a woodworker’s high.

Boxed In

Your Projects

A Shop to Share • Connection, creativity, and accomplishment bring an entire community of woodworkers together in a shared shop space.

Where to Get Started With Sharpening

Tool Cart Conversion

Modirondack Chair • This updated take on a timeless classic keeps many traditional Adirondack features, but offers a comfortable, elevated seating position.

Wood Innovation Awards 2025 • Sometimes innovation is revolutionary; this year, it was evolutionary. We rounded up an eclectic collection of products that elevate the craft of woodworking by improving on tools and expanding on systems.

Floor-Standing Tool Chest • Built to resemble fine furniture, this tall chest provides a handsome central repository for your best and most-needed tools and supplies.

5 Essential Chisel Techniques • Learn just a few of the things you can do that make these versatile, simple tools must-haves for every woodworker.

Timber Line Express: Heavy-Hauling Hopper Car • Hitch a few of these hopper cars to the Timber Line Express for efficient loading and unloading as you rock the rails.

20 Ways to Use Double-Faced Tape • This is one two-faced friend no shop should be without.

Off-The-Wall Art Exhibit • Create your own ever-changing display with this frame that allows you to quickly swap out one masterpiece for the next, and the next, and …

Give Your Router a Lift • A router lift increases table-routing accuracy by replacing your router’s factory adjustment mechanism with one of much higher precision. Integrated measuring scales, low-backlash adjustment screws, and height locks further aid accuracy, while above-the-table bit changes increase convenience. Check out the differences in five current models.

What’s Ahead • A GLIMPSE INSIDE THE MAY ISSUE (ON SALE MARCH 21)