It seems most woodworking sites are finding it very easy to list 20 or 30 plans, or even upwards of 50. They then call themselves a woodworking store. This is a good number to get started but most of those 50 plans are for people who have the woodworking shop and tools that only professional woodworkers will ever have. With every kind of tool that mankind has made for woodworkers and plans that not even a genius could follow the directions to. They then list these as plans anyone can build with a little time on there hands. On top of that the selections are from your everyday craft store bookshelves and nothing in between, but yet they have a WIDE SELECTION. Now if you have looked around the net at all for woodworking plans then you know exactly what I am talking about.

This is where we have stepped in. We decided we wanted a store with nice design, large selection, easy purchasing and high quality plans you can find no where else. We first started evaluating plans for content and clarity and whether or not someone who has no tools and no experience could build the items they were selling. We compared our standards to each plan we had, making sure it was a plan we would sell to our woodworkers with confidence. Clear directions that explain every detail. Quality drawings that you can actually work from. As well as the extras, a bill of materials on the more complicated plans, and whether it needs to be full size or scaleable. These are just a couple of the things we feel made a quality woodworking plan.

We then began compiling the appropriate plans on what we felt were the best of the best to make a woodworking store that can offer QUALITY plans at a LOW price with WIDE selection. This was the challenge. You may be able to find cheaper plans on the web, actually I know you can, but they will be lacking in the quality and craftsmanship compared to what we are offering. Our prices may be a little more but you also get a lot more. Our plans are from REAL woodworkers making plans for themselves and then improving on those plans to offer to us to sell to you. Real plans built for real items not something just dreamed up on a $100,000 drawing program that looks good on paper. Thus our slogan, "REAL PLANS for REAL WOODWORKERS".

Once we had our appropriate plans, we decided every one had to be categorized into three levels, Beginner, Intermediate and Expert. This way we made sure that a beginners plan was for the beginner and not for the beginner master craftsman. And that expert plans were a real challenge to test your woodworking skills and knowledge. All of this so YOU can decide your level of expertise and what you can and cannot build. How many of us have gone and bought a plan to only get it and say "Wow, this is nice but I need to get these other tools to build it and learn to do a little lathe work. I will someday." Well what good is that. You obviously wanted to build the item you bought or you never would have bought it. But there is the hidden factor of not knowing exactly what goes into building an item you have never seen. We have listed the required tools and skills for each level to help you decide this as well. This way you are not surprised when that desk you bought a plan for requires a router to build along with dovetail joints.

Lastly, we offer a GUARANTEE no other wood store offers. Our goal is to bring you, the customer, the most original, high quality and the best priced woodworking plans. If you are not COMPLETELY SATISFIED with the woodworking plan we provide, please notify us immediately and we will honor an unconditional money-back guarantee. We agree to refund the cost of the woodworking plan, excluding shipping costs, with No Hassles. You have our word on it.

We hope you enjoy our store and please give us any comments you have, we can not take care of a problem if we have never heard it. 

Thanks again for visiting CID Woodworking.