About ActualWoodworking

A clearer decision before you buy woodworking plans.

We compare product descriptions, commercial terms and independent reports. We have not purchased and audited the current Ted’s Woodworking library. Our method and sources explain what was checked and what remains unknown.

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Image credits

Ted’s plan examples

Ted’s plan examples and the top-detail crop reproduced on our Ted’s Woodworking guides come from Ted’s sales page, under its affiliate-image permission. The exhibits show a sample plan sheet, a sample cut list for a toy train and a plan-search screen. They are shown at their published size or smaller and re-encoded as WebP; the top-detail image is a faithful crop of Ted’s plan sheet. They show the advertised format, not plans we bought, checked or built. The individual illustrators and underlying ownership have not been independently established. [S-75] [S-79]

Photographs

Workshop and project photographs come from Pexels under the Pexels License. They were cropped, resized and converted to WebP. They illustrate the kinds of projects discussed; none shows a project built from Ted’s plans, and no photographer endorses this site or the product.

• Historical workshop photograph (not used in the current buying guides): “Crop artisan drawing with pencil on wooden plank” — Ono Kosuki (files hero-bench, hero-band).
• Plans on the bench: “Toolkit and Sketchpad on Wooden Workbench” — Tima Miroshnichenko (plans-bench).
• Picnic table: “Outdoor Wooden Table and Bench Near A River” — Erik Mclean (proj-picnic).
• Garden shed: “Charming Rustic Garden Shed Surrounded by Nature” — Annie Miller (proj-shed).
• Planter: “Pansies in a Wooden Box” — Grzegorz Sękulski (proj-planter).
• Flower box: “Flowers on a Wooden Flower Box” — Damir K (proj-flowerbox).

Earlier craft photograph

Kept from an earlier version of the site and not used on the current Ted’s Woodworking guides: “Japanese handplane (kanna) with wood shavings” — Terasaface, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized and converted to WebP. The image retains that license. Craft context only—not a project made from Ted’s plans, an included tool, or an endorsement.

Fonts

Headings and body text use Atkinson Hyperlegible Next by the Atkinson Hyperlegible Next Project Authors, licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and served from this site as a modified Latin-subset WOFF2 file; no external font service.

• Historical font—not loaded on the current site: Fraunces by the Fraunces Project Authors, licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (Fraunces license).
• Atkinson Hyperlegible Next license
• Font modification notice

Sources behind this guide

Product descriptions, purchase policies and buyer reports are different kinds of evidence. Read our method.

1. S-75 Ted’s affiliate terms (new tab)

   Ted’s published description, not a product test. Checked 2026-10-12. Return 1

2. S-79 Ted’s sales page (new tab)

   Ted’s published description, not a product test. Checked 2026-10-12. Return 1