Instructional Woodworking Software

Here is a hodgepodge collection of instructional woodworking software and searchable CD's from the likes of Fine Woodworking and Shopsmith. These sources are helpful if you're looking for woodworking tips, training courses, tutorials, and reference articles.

Fine Woodworking Making Jigs & Fixtures CD
A searchable CD that's jam packed with 25 years worth of tips and methods of work for building and working with jigs and fixtures. Fine Woodworking, Taunton Press.

Small Table Making - Learn to build a small table from rough-cut lumber using traditional joinery techniques. Connecticut Furniture Maker James Redway guides you through the process from start to finish, using over 45 minutes of full motion video in 91 video clips, using animated agents and over 350 images. Knightlite Software. Windows.

WoodCentral Message Archive CD
A searchable collection of message board discussions from the early days of Wood Central (no longer available online). As a bonus, the CD includes the first 500 Shop Shots and hundreds of early "Sightings" photos. WoodCentral.

Woodworker's Spreadsheet Free
A spreadsheet with oodles of woodworking stuff including a board foot calculator, a raised panel calculator, and info on grinding wheels, blade angles, wood screws, drill sizes, shellac, stability of different types of wood, and links to indexes for the back issues of many popular woodworking magazines. Garrett Lambert. Windows/Macintosh.

Woodworking CDbooks
Instructional "CDbooks" on various woodworking topics including wood carving, wood finishing, cabinet making, timber framing, and shop projects. These CD's contain lots of old-time wisdom... Eastman Publishing.

The Woodworking Companion
A multimedia CD-ROM about woodworking - wood, tools, techniques, safety, shop math, project design, joints, assembly, clamping, applying a finish, and more. Intellectimedia. Windows

Woodworking Course
A CD-ROM based course on woodworking. Learning modules covering lumber selection, hand and power tool usage, stationary machines, joinery, and finishing. White Mountain Design. Windows.

Woodworking Tips on CD - Woodworking tips and techniques from Woodsmith, ShopNotes, Workbench, and Weekly Woodworking Tips Series—all on 1 CD. August Home Publishing.