Woodworking Projects using Basic Carpentry
Woodworking projects are fun to build! I have been a professional carpenter for many years, but I also enjoy building things out of wood in my free time. Almost everywhere you look inside and outside of my home, you will find something that I built; picture frames, furniture, a patio cover, a bar for the patio, shelves, games, flooring, and on and on...
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When you build your own carpentry projects, you have unique, one-of-a-kind items, that can't be purchased at any store. And, since you have custom made the item, it is exactly the size, shape, and color that you want.
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| Make your own truck ladder racks |
What's inside mycarpentry.com?
Picnic Table Plans
Build your own picnic table or other outdoor furniture items using the completely free plans on mycarpentry.com.
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| All-in-one Picnic Table | Classic all-in-one Picnic Table |
Carpentry Calculators
One of the many useful features of mycarpentry.com is the carpentry calculators section. They include the roof pitch calculator (for calculating roof pitch and slope), the cubic yard calculator (for estimating concrete), and the arch calculator (for calculating the elliptical curve of archways).
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| Roof Pitch Calculator | Arch Calculator |
The stair calculator is also a very useful calculator, and comes in two flavors (automatic and manual), for calculating the rise and run of stairs in a variety of design scenarios. The automatic calculator is also available as a mobile web app. (mobile stair calculator).
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| Calculate Stair Rise and Run | Mobile Version |
Small Woodworking Projects
The small woodworking projects section contains free plans for building several small projects, ranging from birdhouses to picnic tables. These simple projects can easily be built in less than a day. Many of them can be built in less than an hour.
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Build Your Own Deck
If you are interested in building a deck, visit How to Build a Deck and walk through the 10'x10' deck tutorial. This tutorial covers framing, footings, decking, building stairs, railing, and stair railing.
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| Build Your Own Deck |
| Contact Us Contact Us - Contact myCarpentry.com with any questions you may have about carpentry or general construction. |
| How to build How to build tutorials - build your own deck; framing a house; trim carpentry techniques; baseboard installation and simple crown molding. |
| How to build a deck How to build a deck - This page describes how to build your own deck, get deck ideas, and provides deck railing designs. |
| Small Woodworking Projects Small Woodworking Projects - These small projects are the types of projects that you could build in your back yard or on your home workbench. |
| Scroll Saw Patterns You can use these free scroll saw patterns for unique gift ideas or homemade gift ideas. You can also create decorations for your home or business. |
| Free Picnic Table Plans Free Picnic Table Plans - These picnic table plans are completely free outdoor furniture plans and a great addition to your wood outdoor furniture. |
| Outdoor furniture plans Outdoor furniture plans - This section contains inexpensive patio furniture plans, wood outdoor furniture designs, and great deck ideas. |
| Build a Birdhouse How to build a birdhouse - Several great examples of how you can build simple birdhouses out of old fence boards and other free materials. |
| Free Bird Feeder Plans Free Bird Feeder Plans - these homemade bird feeder plans are made from cedar fence boards. You can make your own bird feeder |
| Building a Bat House Building a Bat House - Why build a bat house? Bats are an invaluable resource. A single brown bat can consume hundreds of mosquitoes in an hour! |
| Easy craft ideas Easy craft ideas - These thanksgiving craft ideas, halloween craft ideas, and pumpkins crafts are great fall decorations. |
| Green Building Green building - Provides solar energy facts, information on diy solar panels, and water cistern information. |
| Framing Carpentry Framing Carpentry - Basic instruction on various framing techniques such as, framing a wall, framing a door, and roof framing. |
| Carpentry Tools Essential Carpentry Tools. This page describes the essential list of carpentry tools and provides professional advice before you purchase your tools. |
| Carpentry Calculators Carpentry calculators - are tools that you use to determine angles, rafter lengths, stairs, floor area, room volume, etc. |
| Carpentry Math The carpentry math, for most projects, are; area of a rectangle, area of a circle, volume of a cylinder, circumference, and square walls. |
| Measure Conversion Chart Measure Conversion Chart - These measure conversion charts convert various length, volume, and weight values. The units of measure conversion is between English and Metric measures. |
| Carpentry Terms The following list of carpentry terms are commonly used among carpenters, engineers and architects. |
| How to Books These how to books, available through the amazon book store, provide a variety of information about building just about any carpentry project that you can image. |
| Quality Building Learn quality building through proven building patterns. The quality without a name.bubble type level to iPhone applications. |
| myCarpentry Blog The myCarpentry Blog keeps you up-to-date with all additions and changes to the myCarpentry.com web site. |
| Build it yourself Build it yourself - This page contains a list of web sites that complement myCarpentry.com. |
| myCarpentry Disclaimer myCarpentry Disclaimer - While the information contained within the site is periodically updated, no guarantee is given that the information provided in this website is correct, complete, and/or up-to-date. |
| myCarpentry Site Search The myCarpentry site search page provides a search tool and links to carpentry calculators, framing carpentry, small woodworking projects and more. |
