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The following 104 sites are
great sources for woodworking
plans; well over 10,000 project plans can be accessed from the
links below, and at the top of the first section you can quickly search
the largest sites by
keyword ("bookcase" or "toy box").
You can also quickly search this page by
pressing CTRL-F then entering your search string (this is
particularly helpful if a search engine directed you to this
page).
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PROJECT
PLAN KEYWORD SEARCH |
Enter a project plan keyword below then click SEARCH to search all 9
of the following sites at
once!
(Enclose phrases in quotes i.e. "dining
table" - currently does not work for Netscape 4.x
Visitors with modem connections should return to view the results page
after a couple minutes.)
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THE
LARGEST PROJECT PLAN SITES |
| AbsolutelyFreePlans.com
This site offers 500 free plans of all sorts. |
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FreeWoodworkingPlan.com
Listing of 4,000 plans? I'll take their word for it. |
| Free Woodworking Plans on the Internet
700 free plans, 1,031 plans total, as well as a variety of other niceties to make the trip
worthwhile. |
| PlansNow.com
From the editors of Woodsmith, ShopNotes & Workbench,
this site offers over 200 readily downloadable plans, from
furniture to jigs. |
| Rockler
Their plans are top-notch and just a mouse click away. |
| The
Wood Store Sponsored by Wood Magazine, over 175
downloadable plans and 100 others are available. |
| Woodcraft Plans Offers an
assortment of 800 plans, from birdfeeders to furniture and everything in between. |
| WoodProjects.com
With over 3,000 plans to choose from (I didn't count them
but that's the claim!) you'll find a plan for most anything
that you want to build in a variety of categories, perhaps
the largest number on the web! |
| Woodworker's
Journal If you haven't had the fortune of subscribing to this great
magazine, you can at least buy the plans here. |
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EXTENSIVE
PROJECT PLAN DIRECTORIES |
| Axiom
Ltd. Directory of free woodworking plan web pages. |
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Free
Plans Directory Put together by a dedicated woodworker, this would be a good
place to start looking for free project plans. |
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Google
(dmoz) Woodworking Project Plan Directory Over 90 project plan sites for
your consideration. |
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Woodbin
This site offers an excellent search engine of 4,400 plans. And counting. |
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www.woodworkersdirectory.com
Exhaustive links directory of everything woodworking, including plans.
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| Zeal.com
Large directory of everything woodworking, as well as
everything else, including these sources for plans. |
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INTERNATIONAL
PROJECT PLAN SITES |
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Aschis
Workshop Offers a broad selection of electronic plans
for wooden toys and models. A free plan offer is a bonus for
visitors. |
| Australian
Exports Native parrot and bird mobile plans. |
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Bear Woods
Canadian site with a wealth of toy plans, from mini excavators
to a Chevy coupe. |
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Buildit.shopAlberta.com
With a Canadian flair, this site offers a variety of plans
including 12th Century medieval furniture, lathe plans and
early Canadian furniture. |
| Craft Supplies Limited
Dedicated to woodturning in the U.K. |
| DIY
Doctor A variety of plans for the home, from spice racks
to cradles, from our friends across the sea. |
| Gekko
Timbers An Australian perspective on intarsia. |
| Grampa's
Workshop When you can't find the plan you're looking for, check here for
some tips on creating your own. |
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Woodies.com Canadian site with a few plans, including a
unique Canadian chair plan. |
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UNIQUE
PROJECT PLAN SITES |
| All
Woodworking Plans This is a novel site where you can
sell, trade or buy used woodworking plans. |
| Boat
Plans Online If you like being on the water, on a craft
built with your own hands, start here for the right plans. |
| Bunk
Beds Unlimited This site offers a variety of ready-made
bunk beds and accessories. And if you have time to build it
yourself, you'll find plans that can be built in a couple
weekends for about $100. |
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Castles.org
You can learn a lot about castles from this site, including how to build a
miniature of your own. |
| Classic
Carving Patterns You'll find more carving plans here than most anywhere I
suspect. |
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The Clock
Mechanics Woodworking clock kits and plans. Really neat
site. |
| Cornerstone
Designs Great site for plans for toy trains, trucks,
construction & farm equipment. |
| Detailed
Play Systems For the children . . . let's just say
'swing sets' do not do these plans justice. |
| Home
Bar Plans Online Home bar construction plans to build a
functional wet bar in your house, even incorporating an
under-bar keg chiller! For adding entertainment to your home, here's
a great place to start! |
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Home Wet
Bar.com Home bar plans with descriptive details on how
to build a bar in 8 easy steps. Plan designs include a
see-thru bottle cap top, fish tank in the front, and space
for a refrigerator under the wet bar. |
| Law
Enforcement Dog House Plans Law Enforcement K-9 Dog
House Plans available in different sizes for one or two
dogs. They are fully insulated, with removable inside walls
and a hinged roof. Perfect even if your dog doesn't
wear a badge! |
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Mechanical Toys Page
This is a cool site for your 'inner child' or the real one in your
life. |
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Multimedia
Plans on CD Limited, but quality selection of furniture
plans available in both 2D and 3D. |
| Pool
Table Plans.com I'd be tempted to just buy one, but if I
were to be adventurous . . . |
| Spiral
Staircases Okay, this is a cool site. A lot of know-how
if you're looking on building your own spiral staircase. I
mean to have one in my next house; how about you? |
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Vintage
Games These plans will either will bring you back to your
childhood or bring your childhood to you. |
| The
Woodbox.com Intarsia all the way. |
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Woodturns.com
Plans for woodturning and clocks. |
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MISCELLANEOUS
PROJECT PLAN SITES |
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A1
Woodplans Broad selection of plans, from PVC and baby
furniture, to kids' projects and shop plans. |
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About
Time Plans Clock and furniture woodworking plans for the
home shop. |
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Accents
in Pine Free woodworking plans and scroll saw patterns,
free woodcraft projects, water gardens and garden ponds. |
| Adirondack
Source Good selection of Adirondack and other outdoor
furniture and projects. |
| American Furniture Design
No surprise here. 100 plans of furniture, furniture and more furniture. |
| American
Woodworking A few hundred unique scrollsaw designs and
patterns, as well as 'the best scrollsaw blades in the
world'. |
| August
Home The publisher of Workbench,
Woodsmith and ShopNotes
Magazines offers over 100 downloadable plans, many from projects in
past issues. |
| B.B.C.
Wood Products For some unique picnic table plans, visit
here. |
| B.
Frank's Woodworking Plans For those with little time on
their hands, these plans can be completed in 6-12 hours. |
| B.Y.O
Swingsets Your kids will love you for it. |
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The
Barley Harvest Easily modified plans, from furniture to
clocks to games. |
| Billy
C. Woodwright.com Nice source of CAD-drawn quality
furniture plans. |
| Binky's
Woodworking A variety of simple, free plans for the
taking. |
| Byegone
Workshop This site would be right at home had the Little
House on the Prairie had an Internet connection. Go ahead
and build the LOYL an old-fashioned wheel barrow for her
garden display. |
| Constructive
Ideas A variety of indoor and outdoor project plans. |
| Craftsman
Plans Home of authentic detailed drawings of early 20th
century American furniture, as originally manufactured by
Gustav Stickley, L. & J.G. Stickley, Charles Limbert
& Roycroft. |
| D.
Roy Woodcraft Nice selection of plans for the home
office, bedroom, dining room and more. |
| Dalcraft
Furniture Design Some really serious furniture to give
anyone a challenging project. I particularly like the
roll-top desk and chair. |
| Decks
USA Stop here before you start on that spring project. |
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| Design
Group No plans for fine furniture, but for just about
everything else, from toys to mirrors to outdoor projects. |
| Family
Tradition From the rocking horse to the pet bed plans,
for both the young and old, these plans will get the sawdust
moving in your veins. |
| Forest
Street Designs Innovative plans for the little ones. And
free shipping too. |
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Free
Furniture Plans Hundreds of free woodworking project
plans for furniture, from beds and workbenches to bookcases
and chests, and everything in between. |
| FreePlans.com
Get free plans in exchange for receiving 'sponsor' e-mails.
Sounds like a good trade. |
| Furniture
Den Quite a selection of Adirondack chair plans. |
| Furniture
Designs Inc. Full size plans for making fine furniture,
including over 30 table designs to choose from. |
| Furniture
Plans.com Downloadable rocking horse and gazebo plans,
and everything in between. |
| Garden
Structure.com From custom plans to DIY plans, this site
offers a large selection of all kinds of structures for your
garden. |
| Gold
Country Woodworks A number of truly unique plans
including the 'Fish' Adirondack Chair. |
| Gordon's
Wood Crafts a.k.a. Rocking Horse Central. If you're
serious about rocking horses, you won't be disappointed. |
| Handyman
Plans A wide variety of plans for the home and the yard,
including gazebos and decks, workbenches and toy train sets. |
| Internet
Woodworking Offers free plans including the famous 'Jake' Adirondack
Chair. |
| Jeff
Greef Woodworking
Some quality furniture plan freebies as well as some quality
resources. Nicely done. |
| L
& R Designs Come here for downloadable plans for
your yard, from swings and doghouses, to playhouses and
birdhouses. |
| Lake
Superior Designs A nice selection of furniture plans
created on a CAD system for accuracy. And if you need a
custom plan drawn up, you can get that too. |
The
New Yankee Workshop You'll find plans for that favorite project you
saw Norm build last week (and all in the space of a half hour without
one mistake). My inspiration.
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| Original
Furniture Plans.com Ever wish you could build one of those
really unique furniture pieces you see in galleries? You can
now with these original furniture plans. Take one look at
the pictures and you'll be sold! |
| Plan
Distributor America Offer a good selection of plans,
many with full-length templates with hole locations already
drilled. |
| Plans
4 Wood Every kid's dream is for his dad or mom to build
anything from this site. |
| Popular
Mechanics This venerable publication still offers
quality, free plans for your woodworking pleasure. |
| Popular
Woodworking Some quality, free plans for the
downloading. |
| Professional
Hardware
Indoor and outdoor plans for purchase. |
| Scandinavian
Furniture Plans.com Just think IKEA to the max! |
| Skunk
Holo Mill Storage shed plans of many types. |
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Specialty
Furniture Designs Build admirable outdoor and indoor wood
furniture and accessories from errorless plans. |
| Square 1
Quality, spiral-bound plans for the home and the yard. |
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SwingPlans.com
Swings, gliders, garden seats and planters; every plan you'll
need to enjoy the great outdoors in your own backyard. |
| ToyPlans.com
There's a whole lot more than toy plans on this site; a
little bit of everything. |
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Twisted
Oaks Very nice selection of plans for the home. |
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U-Bild
Since 1948, they've been providing plans for easy-to-build
projects for the beginner and experienced woodworker alike. |
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The
Winfield Collection From fun mail box designs and
whirlygigs, to scrollsaw and holiday projects, there's
something for everyone. |
| Wood
Projects Made Easy Fast, fun, easy to follow plans for
the home, office, shop, dolls and kids. |
| The
Woodcrafter Page The largest free collection of those
retro 'Delta' project plans your grandfather would reference
in the 40's & 50's. And if you'd like a custom plan
created just for you, here's the place to come. |
| Woodcrafting
A selection of free woodworking plans. |
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Woodware
Designs Low stress computer furniture that you can build. If you don't have
a computer, then please build it to hold mine :-) |
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Woodworkers
Auction Good selection of a variety of plans, including Mexican and Queen
Anne furniture. |
Woodworkers
Services A small selection of plans, including a shaker clock and a humidor
for the cigar enthusiast in your life. Proceeds go to a fund for an ill little
girl. |
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Wow! I Made
It.com Simple, inexpensive and great-looking projects that you can make. |
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Zigan's
Woodcrafts Plans for scrollsawing and turning, as well as the more
traditional fare. |
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