First Edition · 52 Photographed Projects

Stop Watching Woodworking Videos.
Start Building.

52 Weekends is one considered project every weekend, in the order that actually builds skill, from your first straight cut to a finished backyard shed.

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Be honest with yourself

Does this sound familiar?

— You've bookmarked forty woodworking videos and finished exactly none of them.
— You bought real tools and they're mostly used for hanging shelves, not building anything.
— Every free plan online assumes you already know things nobody actually taught you.
— You want the satisfaction of building something real, not just watching someone else do it.

Here's what changes

A year that actually finishes.

Most plan collections hand you thousands of disconnected drawings and no idea where to start. 52 Weekends does the opposite: one project per weekend, fifty-two weeks in a row, each one quietly teaching you the exact skill the next weekend needs.

By the time you close this book, you won't have a folder of half-finished plans. You'll have fifty-two finished builds, real tool confidence, and the habit of actually showing up to your own shop every Saturday.

No filler. No sixteen-thousand-plan database to get lost in. Just a year, planned for you.

The book open on a workbench

The arc of the year

Four quarters, thirteen weekends each

Foundations

Part I · Weeks 1–13

Foundations

Thirteen weekends spent earning the right to build furniture. Nothing here takes more than a Saturday, and every project quietly teaches your hands one specific thing.

  • Cut straight and repeatably with whatever saw you already own
  • Glue up a panel that actually stays flat
  • Apply your first real finish, and understand why you chose it
  • Build the two things every shop needs: sawhorses and a flat top
First Real Furniture

Part II · Weeks 14–26

First Real Furniture

The quarter where things start getting given as gifts. Joinery replaces screws, cases replace boards, and you cut your first hand dovetails by week fifteen.

  • Cut a hand dovetail that closes without filler
  • Mortise and tenon a table leg to an apron
  • Build a case that pulls square off the clamps
  • Hang a door and a lid so they sit flush
Outdoors and Garden

Part III · Weeks 27–39

Outdoors & Garden

Summer, cedar, and the forgiving scale of outdoor work. Bigger, faster builds that teach you what indoor furniture never will: how wood behaves in weather.

  • Detail outdoor lumber so it lasts fifteen years, not three
  • Cut a curve from a template and repeat it twenty times
  • Batch-build identical parts without a production line
  • Design a lid that sheds water instead of trapping it
Mastery and Capstone

Part IV · Weeks 40–52

Mastery & Capstone

The last thirteen weekends. Nine pieces that demand everything the year has taught you, then a four-weekend capstone: a real backyard shed, framed, sided, roofed and finished.

  • Fit an inset door with an even reveal, all the way round
  • Manage wood movement in a tabletop built to outlive you
  • Bend wood with steam and a shop-made form
  • Frame, side, and roof a weathertight structure in four weekends
52
Photographed Projects
179
Pages
60
Original Photographs

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