>> 13 Router Dado Jig Plans
Router Dado Jig

Easy To Make Dado Jig

Router Dado Guide

Dado Jig

A Dado Jig for the Router

Router Dado Jig

Exact-Width Dado Jig

Adjustable Dado Jig

Router Dado Cutting Jig

Adjustable Dado Jig

Router Dado/Rabett Jig on the Cheap (pics no plans)

Adjustable Dado Jig for Routers

Auto Adjust Router Dado Jig for Hand Routing (at SMC, requires free SMC membership to view pictures)

>> 6 Router Mortise Jig Plans
Plunge Router Mortising Jig

A Simple Plunge Router Mortising Jig

Mortising jig

Tage Frid’s Mortising Jig

a very simple, efficient shop made mortising jig for use with a plunge router

Hinge Mortise Jig

>> 7 Router Circle Cutting Jig Plans
Router Circle Cutting Jig for Woodworking

Router Circle-Cutting Jig

How to Cut Circles and Curves With a Router

How to Make a Router Circle Cutting Jig

Router Small Circle Jig

Router circle jig (pics, no plan)

Router Trammel

>> 2 Router Tenon Jig Plans
The Four-Faced Tenon Jig

Tenon Jig for the Router Table

>> 3 Router Fluting Jig Plans
Fluting Jig

Routing Stopped Flutes

New Fluting Jig For Custom Curved Flutes

>> 9 General and or Eclectic Router Jig Plans
Dirt-Simple Router Jigs

Router Pattern Jig – With Plans

Jigs for bench top palm routing

A cradle for changing router bits

Zero Clearance Router Table Miter Spline Jig (pics, no plan)

Router Table Box Joint Jig (pics, no plans)

Router Centering Jig (pics no plans)

Router Surfacing Jig

Free Woodworking Router Slot Jig Plan

>> 5 Router Jig Videos
Podcast #29: Top 5 Shop-Built Router Jigs
Video: Router Jigs Part 1 with Popular Woodworking senior editor, Robert W. Lang
Video: Router Jigs Part 2
Video: Setting Up and Using the Mortiser Router Jig
router mortise jig

>> 61 More Plans for Your Router: Collections from ToolCrib.com
Edge Jointing (and Planing?!) with a Router: 24 How-To Guides, Forum Threads and Videos
9 Router Bit Storage Plans: Router Bit Boxes, Shelves, Organizers and more!
28 Free Router Table Plans

>> My Forum Sources for Router Jig Plans
Router Mortising Jig Plans or Advice Needed
Router Small Circle Jig
What’s your router guide for doing dados?
M&T jig
Woodsmith Router Jig
Making an overhead router sled/jig (ideas, not a plan)
router dado jig
Router Jig Plan
Consulting Woodworker’s Published Woodworking Articles

For some basic, non-plan guidelines to keep your dog healthy in his new home, check out Keep These Important Tips In Mind When Building A Dog House!

Here’s what you’ll find below:
>> Dog House Plan Awards: Best in Show
>> Slanted, One-Sheet Roof Dog House Plans
>> Peaked Roof Dog House Plans
>> Dog Shelter Plans: Shade, Not Insulation
>> 3 Dog House Building Videos + Plans

>> Dog House Plan Awards: Best in Show
Build an insulated A-Frame doghouse for under $75 (Great guide, great plans, great idea, great look… TOP Dog house)

“This doghouse is suitable for a small to medium-sized dog with a 9 square foot base. I purchased my materials at Home Depot. Note that the doghouse uses an existing floor–in my case, an outdoor deck–so no base is included in this plan.”

Funny Build Notes for Gigantic, Custom Multi-Dog House (Best write up award… great notes for folks building a custom dog house)

“How do you say “I love you” to an animal that doesn’t speak English? Well, P-nut would tell you that you give him carrots. Jake and Miles would say you rub them, play Sock with them, and feed them smelly stuff. The cats – they’d want you to sit still and be warm. But sometimes you just want to spoil your special friends. So…”

In The Doghouse: Lowes (Keeping up with the Martha Stewarts award)

“Pets are part of my family. When it’s cold outside, I let them in; when it’s hot outside, I let them in. “They’re dogs. They belong outside,” says my husband. But as I look outside, the most irresistible puppy dog eyes persuade me. To keep to a minimum the muddy paw prints on the floor and the hair on my clothes, we decided on a comfortable solution that makes everyone in our family happy—a delightful doghouse.”

Gingerbread Dog House (No Way, No How award)

How to Build a Solar Dog House (Hot Dog + most in need of safety warnings Award)

>> Slanted, One-Sheet Roof Dog House Plans
Insulated Dog House Plan

“This unique, insulated Dog House Plan is only one design of many dog houses. It is designed to provide an insulated, warm, dry, comfortable dog house for your dog; plus it is designed to be easy to clean!”

Dog House: Lowes

“Give your pet a sturdy shelter from the elements.”

Flooring for Fido

“Above-ground kennels aren’t little jails. Rather, the kennel is a dog’s bedroom and den, a place where a dog feels happy and secure.”

>> Peaked Roof Dog House Plans
The Sparky1 Dog House

“It features an insulated floor, roof, and walls, a removable roof for ease of cleaning, a cedar deck with roof, an optional inner wall, and solid construction throughout.”

Designer Dog Kennel

“Your best friend deserves the best, so if it’s time to do something about his or her accommodation, spoil them with a kennel that’s comfy and good to look at.”

Basic Plans for a Large Dog

“Protect your four-legged family member, too, with this simple-to-build house. It’ll give him shade on sunny days and a welcome shelter on rainy ones. And you can even decorate it to suit his unique personality!”

How to Build a Dog House: DIY Network

“Begin by determining the size of the doghouse based on the dog’s full-grown size. A dog should have enough room to freely turn around and lie down while still allowing room for food and water bowls.”

Dog House Project Plan by Georgia-Pacific

The dog house is designed to provide a sturdy shelter for a medium sized dog. A rear vent can be added to the back side of the dog house for additional ventilation.

Harry & Sal’s Dog House

Here is a design for a simple A-Frame shelter which is easy to put together and could be adapted for all sizes of dogs.

NCSU Dog House

Building A Doghouse: Lowes 1

“Building a doghouse is a great family project. With these instructions a beginner level DIYer should be able to complete this project in a weekend, using common household tools.”

Dog Kennel for Large Dogs

“This kennel will accommodate a large dog but is really suitable for a dog of any size.”

How to Build a Wooden Dog House

“Give your pet the needed protection from the wind, rain, and snow. This medium sized wood dog house is functional as well as stylish. It is primarily constructed of cedar wood to help withstand insects and decay.”

Simple Doghouse 1.0

“About a month and a half ago, I welcomed a new member in my family, Max a very nice and sweet little Silky Cocker . :o) I quickly realized I needed a doghouse for Max since he is staying in my enclosed backyard during the day, when I’m not home. Of course I could’ve bought a doghouse at my local pet store but since I already had some plywood sheets , I thought it would be more fun to actually build one and write an instructable from it.”

>> Dog Shelter Plans: Shade, Not Insulation
Green Roofed Dog Veranda

“My primary motivation for building this is to create a shaded space for my dogs to rest when out in the yard with the added benefit of providing real estate for an additional herb/bee/butterfly garden. My dogs are spoiled rotten and sleep in bed with my wife and I, this is a spot for them to rest when playing in the yard, it is not designed for a dog to live in.”

How to Build an Open Air Doghouse:The Doggy Retreat

“We all need our own space sometimes, even pets, it sounds weird but it’s true. When you look at the pics below you may think this is a dog house, but it is not, you may say this is lattice work but it is not, or you may call it a trellis, which it is not. What it is though, is a combination of all three of those with a twist. The idea is to create an open air retreat that I can get vines to grow on to help the dogs feel like they are in there own element.”

>> 3 Dog House Building Videos + Plans
Dog House Building Video from Michael Holigan

Lists of Free Dog House Plans:
All About Dog Houses
Dog House Plans from FreeWW
Dog House Plans from Suite101

Here’s what you’ll find in this collection:
>> 4 Basic Birdhouses
>> 6 Extreme Birdhouses
>> 3 Bluebird House Plans
>> 6 Purple Martin House Plans
>> 6 Birdhouse Building Videos

>> 4 Basic Birdhouses
You can’t go wrong with the basics. Usually. These birdhouses are great afternoon projects or even high-production projects for entrepreneurial woodworkers.

The One Board Birdhouse

Bluebird House Plans

The Real Bird Homes Chalet

(See video on this one below)

Cylendrical Birdhouse

(looks like it would be a good seller…)

>> 6 Extreme Birdhouses
Like birds with fine plumage, these extreme birdhouses will cause people to “ooh” and “ahh” when they walk through your garden.

Mid-Century Modern Birdhouse

(see video below)

ornate bird houses

Pallet Wood Birdhouses

(the creator sells these)

The Back to Nature Bark-Fronted Wonder

3 Designs from Canada – All Ornately Finished

>> 3 Bluebird House Plans
My neighbors fed meal worms to bluebirds from their hands. Bluebirds win popularity contests every time, and you can’t go wrong with the simplicity of a bluebird box unless you live in certain parts of Kansas.

Peterson Bluebird Box

Eastern Bluebird Nestbox (Smaller than Western/Mountain)

Western + Mountain Bluebird Box (Bigger than Eastern)

>> 6 Purple Martin House Plans
Purple Martins look like a labor of love to me. Here’s a guide to attracting and maintaining purple martins, or, becoming a “purple martin landlord” as the enthusiasts call it… Here’s a great blog for purple martin lovers, also where I found these Purple Martin house plans.

Swiss Chalet Style Purple Martin House

One Story Purple Martin House

Two-Level Purple Martin House

3 Level Martin Bird House

Plan 8 Purple Martin House from the Pennsylvania Game Commission

Stryrofoam Purple Martin Modular Housing System

>> 6 Birdhouse Building Videos
Pictures are worth 1000 words. The word exchange rate on these videos goes from about 10,000 words on down to maybe 10 or so ;)

Video: Chickadee and Swallow Birdhouse Guide

Springer Chalet Plans

Video: Build Your Own Mid-Century Birdhouse

Video: Extreme Birdhouse, Extreme Birdhouse Builder

Every birdhouse he builds gets a little mini birdhouse. Nifty. Maybe a bit too extreme. You decide.

Video: How to Build a Bluebird Nesting Box

Video: How To Build An Eco-Friendly Birdhouse

(aka plant a tree?)

Video: Claymation – How Not to Build a Bird House

One well-known seller of wooden clock plans, Clayton Boyer, pitches his most-difficult plans like this: “Selling plans for the clocks on this page goes against my basic philosophy of trying to spread joy in the world through creative woodworking. However, I have come to the conclusion that I should not stand in the way of a woodworker’s desire for additional frustration in his/her life when they obviously want it so badly.”

He won’t sell plans from his “Masochist’s Corner” unless you’ve built one of his simpler clocks first… and sent him photographic PROOF that you completed it. I love it.

Here’s his Simplicity, his, er, simplest offering:

Also check out Clayton Boyer’s Wooden Gear Clocks on YouTube

Obsessive, highly precise, slightly more than mildly eccentric… if that describes your woodworking personality then you might just appreciate these free all-wooden clock plans, along with the lists of pay plans below! Good luck, woodworker. I wish you well.

1) Build Your Own Wooden Grandfather Clock!

2) Woodenclocks: Clock1

3) Woodenclocks: Clock2

4) Law Wooden Clock 4

5) Law Wooden Clock 5

6) Wood Clock WC5

7) Wooden Gear Clock

8) Wooden Gear Clock MLT-13

Not really a free plan, but you might be able to piece something together from the snippets available online:
MLT-13 from ScrollSawer Magazine
MLT-13 at SawmillCreek.org >>
MLT-13 at ScrollSawer Forum >>

And for all your wooden machine making needs, I proudly present the wooden gear template generator by my favorite mad woodworking genius Matthias Wandel.

Once you’ve built those others, give this one a shot ;)
Wooden Clock

For Pay Wooden Clock Plans and Kits:
Create Your Own Wooden Gear Clock
Clayton Boyer Clock Designs
Wooden Clock Kits
Wood Gear Clock Scroll Saw Plans
Wooden Grand Father Clock
Wooden Clock Plans

Wooden Clock Resources + Inspiration
Clockmaking Forum
Wooden Works Clocks Introduction
rabbit’s clocks

>> 5 Hardware and Fastener Storage Plans
1) Fastener Dispenser Plan

2) Hardware Storage Cabinet

3) Drawer Organizer Plans

4) Small Parts Organizer

5) Pull-Out Hardware Storage Case Idea

>> 6 Smart + Simple +/or Recycled Hardware Storage Ideas
1) Altoid Storage System for Hardware

2) Organize hardware with coffee cans

3) Good-bye Baby Food Jars (Hello Bulk DVD Cases)

4) Fastener Storage Ideas

>Glad microwaveable plastic food containers
>I use plastic bin boxes from Depot or Lowes. I built a rack to hold them from angle iron and square tube.
>Library card catalog drawers or similar.
>http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=95496
>cardboard Grainger bin boxes
>one piece plastic ice cube trays

5) Wood Shop Tips: Storing Nails, Screws & Other Mechanical Fasteners

>fishing tackle boxes
>small instant coffee, hot cocoa and Altoids tins

6) Organizing Small Items in a Workshop
“The most difficult items to keep organized are usually the ones that are smallest and most plentiful. Organize small items in a home workshop with these helpful tips and tools.”

>> 8 More Storage Plan Collections
17 Free Garage Woodshop Plans: Ingenious Space Savers for Garage Workshops
9 Sandpaper Storage Ideas (+ free plans)
13 Free Clamp Storage Plans: Space Savers, Mobile Clamp Carts, Pipe Clamp Racks and MORE!
Wood Storage 101: 14 Lumber Storage Plans and 7 Storage Tips
Seven Ideas for Drill Bit Storage
9 Router Bit Storage Plans: Router Bit Boxes, Shelves, Organizers and more!
Table Saw Blade Storage
12 Free Workshop Storage Plans: Tool Cabinets, Rolling Carts, Under Stair Storage and More

In honor of bats – and the wacky folks who love them – we humbly submit to you 27 FREE bat house plans in the hopes that you can dramatically reduce the mosquito population that’s taken up residence around your picnic table.

>> 3 Designs For the Bat Fanatics ONLY
>> 2 Rocket Box Bat House Designs
>> 2 Interspecies Housing Plans: Birds + Bats
>> 1 HOA-Positive Bat House Plan
>> 6 Bat Family Friendly: Multi-Chambered Bat Nursery Plans
>> 13 Basic Bat Houses for the Modestly Batty
>> 2 Bat House FAQ’s + 1 Bat House Making Video

>> 3 Designs For the Bat Fanatics ONLY
Warning – these bat houses are not for the faint of heart, slim of skill or in any way squeamish about bats.

1) Bat Condo for 7000 Bats

More pics of the most righteous bat house known to man >>

2) Metal Shell (Aluminum) 14-Chamber Bat Box Capacity: ~600 Bats

3) Successful Pallid Bat House Design in California

More about the Pallid Bat.

>> 2 Rocket Box Bat House Designs
Who knew that bat houses could look so… AWESOME. These free-standing bat houses will look great in your back yard, especially around the 4th of July.

1) Rocket-Box Bat House

2) two-chamber rocket box

>> 2 Interspecies Housing Plans: Birds + Bats
Bats and birds. Who knew they could live together in harmony? For those seeking to promote better interspecies relations, check out the following bat + bird houses.

1) Bat and Bird Combo House

2) Holloway Wood Duck/Bat House Combo

>> 1 HOA-Positive Bat House Plan
Try this bat house if you want to reduce mosquitos but there’s a HOA breathing down your neck. We’ve heard reports that this design originated in Bruce Wayne’s neighborhood.

1) The Suburban Bat House

>> 6 Bat Family Friendly: Multi-Chambered Bat Nursery Plans
Help out bats in the family way. These multi-chambered bat nursery plans should really get your bat population booming!

1) the 3 in 1 plan set: Small Bat Box, Small Maternity Colony Box, Large Maternity Colony Box

2) Four-Chamber Bat Nursery House

3) Triple-chambered Bat House Plans

4) Large Bat Box Nursery

5) Small Bat Box Nursery

>> 13 Basic Bat Houses for the Modestly Batty
3 chambers? Rocket Boxes? Bird + bat houses? Come on, some people just want the plain old vanilla bat house! Well, here ya go. 13 of them to choose from!

1) Build Your Own Bat House

2) Bat House Plan (PDF)

3) Bat House Plan and Assembly Directions

4) Mammoth Cave Bat Box

5) BBC Bat Box

6) Bat House Plans

7) Small Bat House

8) Single-chamber Bat House (wall mounted)

9) Plans for a Bat House

10) Assembly of Beginner’s Bat House

11) Do-It-Yourself Bat House

12) Bat House Construction Project

13) Install a Bat House for Natural Pest Control

>> 2 Bat House FAQ’s + 1 Bat House Making Video
1) Bat House Design Considerations
2) Common Questions and answers About Bat Houses
3) Video: How to Build a Bat House the Gardenfork Way

Stay square, daddy-o! And check out our other collections of free woodworking plans >>

1) Video: Assembly Table Torsion Box by TheWoodWhisperer

Assembly Table Plans (PDF)

2) Shop Assembly Table by American Woodworker

3) Adjustable-Height Assembly Table

4) Assembly & Cutting Tables

5) Torsion Box Assembly Table Construction Plans in SketchUp

6) How to Build a Torsion Box Workbench Top

7) Build an Air-Station Assembly Table

8) Revolving Finish Station

9) Clamping Station

10) Clamping Station for Panel Glue-Ups

11) Pipe Clamp Glue-up Rack

>> More Torsion Box Resources:
Torsion Box Design and Layout in Sketchup
Torsion box Mathematical Formula

>> Assembly Table Discussions in Forums:
Assembly Table Ideas?
Assembly Table
Shop-Made Frame Assembly Table
Clamping table
Torsion box for Assembly and Glue Ups

If your question was: “how do I cut tapers” then you’re in the right place!

Check out our other collected free woodworking plans >>

Here’s what you’ll find:
>> 19 Free Tapering Jig Plans
>> 2 Tapering with Jointers Resources: No Jigs Required!
>>Using Taper Jigs: 3 How To’s
>> 5 Taper Jig Forum Discussions

>> 19 Free Tapering Jig Plans
There are taper sleds, stepped taper jigs and that’s just the beginning. Taper jigs come in many shapes, sizes and functions. Check out our selection of 19 free taper jigs and you should find just what you’re looking for.

1) Adjustable Taper Jig

2) Don Garner’s Table Saw Taper Sled PDF

3) How to Make A Stepped Tapering Jig PDF

4) Table Saw Tapering Jig: American Woodworker 1996

5) Tapering Jig PDF

Video on Using “A Better tapering Jig.”
http://www.finewoodworking.com/pages/wvt115.asp

6) Taper Jig Designed by Charles Neil PDF

7) Tablesaw Taper Sled by RunnerDuck

8) Taper Jig Mathematics… for True DIYers

9) Table Saw Taper Jig

10) Build a Tapering Jig

11) Table Saw Jig (Works as Taper Jig)

12) True-Cut Taper Jig

13) Table Saw Taper Jig

14) Combination Taper Jig and Straight Edge

15) Tablesaw Taper Jig By Rick Christopherson

16) My Taper Jig

17) Tapering Jig (on the cheap)

18) Adjustable Taper Jig

19) Bandsaw Taper Cutting Jig

>> 2 Tapering with Jointers Resources: No Jigs Required!
Why jig it when you can joint it? Forget those flimsy jigs and check out our 8″ jointer comparison ;)

1) VIDEO – Using a Jointer to Taper Legs for Furniture

2) Cutting tapers on a jointer (no jig required)

>>Using Taper Jigs: 3 How To’s
Using that taper jig might not be as simple as you thought. Or maybe you’re just simpler than you thought. Either way, these how-to’s will help you get your taper straight!

1) Using a Taper Jig

2) Video: Taper Safely

3) Cuting a taper with a Taper Jig

>> 5 Taper Jig Forum Discussions
See woodworkers in the throes of taper deficit disorder, and the trials and tribulations they face at the hands of their fellow forum goers.

Table Saw Tapering Jig
Taper Jig Plans
Taper Jig
Taper Jig
Taper jig for long cuts

And once you’ve built a new featherboard, mail your old one to this guy…

Also see: 14 Push Block Plans + 11 Push Stick Plans: Save Your Paws from Table Saws!

1) Feather Boards: How I make them by Gord Graff

The Gord Graff featherboards are classics in the woodworking forums. In fact, they inspired their own video by Mr. Al Navas of the Sandal Woods Woodworking Blog:
Episode 5 – A wonderful featherboard (video of making Gord Graff’s design)

2) A Lexan Feather Board: A simpler method

3) A New Kind of Featherboard

4) Featherboard Strip Ripping Jig by Edwin C. Hackleman

5) Bill Pounds Feather Board Plans

6) Miter Slot Feather Boards in American Woodworker 1993

7) Featherboard Holddowns in American Woodworker 1998

8) How to Make & Use a Fingerboard

9) Simple Featherboard for a Table Saw

10) Easy-Lock Feather Board

11) Woodworking Jigs – Make Your Own Featherboards

12) How to make a Featherboard

13) Feather Boards

14) the feather board for the table saw

15) How to Make a Featherboard

16) How To Make a Featherboard.

17) Feather Boards

Featherboards n’ More:
18) Tall Featherboard

19) Indexing Jig for Making Featherboards

20) Making a featherboard hold down

21) Video: Router Table Featherboard

ToolCrib.com’s Collection of Free Woodworking Plan Collections >>

1. Router Bit Box
   
2. Router Bit Box (PDF)
   
3. Modular Router Bit Organizer
   
4. Bit Shelf
   
5. How to Make a Router Bit Storage Case
   
6. How to Make a Router Bit Storage Unit
   
7. Router-Bit Storage
   
8. Router Bit Organizer
   
9. Grampa’s Bit Box
   

>> 2 Wacky Bit Storage Ideas… That Just Might Work!
Not everything requires a plan – sometimes alls it takes is a set of creative eyes. These two ideas should help you think outside of the box (hehe)… Neither one will blow your mind, but they’re both better than sawdust in yer eye!

1. Router Bit Storage – Prescription Bottles
2. Router-bit storage – Old Mechanic’s Box

>> Forum Threads About Router Bit Storage
These forum threads should give you some ideas, tips, pointers and a general warm and fuzzy feeling from all the friendly woodworkers out there. Plus that Sawmill Creek thread has a gorgeous photo of some bad*** router bit storage drawers on a router table.

1. Router Bit Storage – SawMillCreek
2. Router Bit Storage Ideas? – Rigid Forums
3. Router Bit Box – Router Forums

More Free Woodworking Plan Collections from ToolCrib.com >> Hurry, at these prices the plans won’t last long ;)