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Build a Headphone Stand, a Bar Cart, a Laser-Cut Thermal-Formed Lamp, a Multiple iPad Docking Station and More

How to Remove Dents from Wood

The Samurai Carpenter demonstrates the steam iron trick for getting dents out of wood. He also shows you a trick for fortifying a notched tenon to prevent it from splitting:

Building a Bed

This is an impressive build. The Samurai Carpenter builds a timber-framed bed for his son, starting off with pieces far too massive to flatten on any jointer or planer:

Air Conditioner/Pool Pump Cover Fence

A basic build from Bob Clagett this week, who builds a simple fence to cover a domestic exterior eyesore:

Classroom iPad Docking Station

Sandra Powell does a favor for a schoolteacher friend, building a charging station to hold 18 iPads:

End-Grain Work Station to Stereo Repair

What do you do when you’re making a butcher block workstation and your belt sander breaks? If you’re Linn from Darbin Orvar, you cope by tackling another project: Converting an old stereo receiver from AC to DC.

Bar Cart

Ben Uyeda whips up a bar cart from iron pipes, couplings and oak from the big box store:

Laser Cut, Thermal Formed Lamp

This is pretty cool. Uyeda experiments with a laser cutter, acrylic baked in his kitchen oven, and plywood forms to make this lamp:

Easy to Make, Perfect Fit Jig

Here’s a useful tip if you ever need to insert a panel into something that you’re not sure is 100% square:

Headphone Stand

Chris Salomone waxes philosophic while making this handsome walnut headphone stand: