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Hold the Wine: Student Creates, Sells Unique Wine Bottle Display

Steven Holdridge, a Product Design & Development student at the Southern Virginia Higher Education Center, has combined beautiful design with sophisticated engineering to create an original wine bottle display that is sure to delight wine lovers everywhere. He is selling the displays to help finance a student trip to Ireland.

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Different wood joints

Kent Perdue, a Virginia furniture maker, explains the difference between various wood joints, such as dovetail joints, lap joints, 45-degree miter joints and tendon joints. Discover how to join wood with these different types of joints in this video.

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How to use through dovetail templates

A detailed demonstration on how to setup and use two different Through Dovetail templates by MLCS Woodworking. Get great looking dovetail joints for a small investment. This easy to use dovetail system can produce dovetails on any width board.

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How to make an oak blanket chest

John W. Nixon from Eagle Lake Woodworking demonstrates how to build a classic oak blanket chest. Some of the notable features include - Dovetailed Construction, Exposed Spline Joints, An Arts and Crafts inspired style, and replica hand-hammered hardware.

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Tips on milling lumber

Watch this video to find out about one of the most critical and fundamental aspects of woodworking: milling lumber. Review a 4-step milling process, which requires some big tools and also see alternative methods for jointing edges and flattening faces.