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Made a woodworking project yourself? We'd love to see it — and, with your permission, feature it on our reader builds page with credit to you. It doesn't have to be from one of our ideas or tips.

Need a project first? Browse build ideas, tips, and our tool picks.

A few quick details and up to 4 photos. Prefer email? Use the email option further down.

Display name: this is how we'll credit you, and it's shown publicly. You don't need to use your real name. A first name, initials, a nickname, or your shop or social handle is fine. Please don't use someone else's name or brand, or pretend to be someone you're not, and don't use anything offensive, misleading, or promotional, or include an email address, phone number, or link. We may shorten or change a display name that breaks these rules, or ask you for a different one. To change yours later, just email us.

Private: never shown on the site. We use it to reply, to group your builds on one maker page, and to handle removal requests.

Shared before? Use the same email so we can add your new build to your profile once it's approved.

What did you build?

Up to 4 photos: JPEG, PNG or WebP, up to 8 MB each and 18 MB in total. Please leave people out, don't show children's faces, and avoid anything that shows where you live. We remove hidden photo data, such as camera location, before publishing.

A few words about the build, in your own words. Up to 500 characters.

Age: Not for children under 13. If you're 13 to 17, a parent or guardian must agree before you send a build, and we may email to check. Kids are welcome to share builds through a parent's submission.

Permission (required)
Optional

What happens next: your submission goes through Cloudflare, our web host, which checks it for spam, removes hidden photo data such as camera location, and emails it to our Gmail inbox (your IP address isn't included). We review every build by hand before anything is published. Details: privacy policy.

Remove or change a build

Changing your mind: to remove a build, change your display name, or delete your maker page, email hello@sawdustsmart.com from the address you submitted with, and include the build's link. We'll take it off the site within 7 days, and we'll delete our own social posts of it. After a removal, we delete your submission emails within 30 days and keep only a short note of the request. We may need to confirm the request came from you.

Older copies may remain for a short time in our private, offline backups of the website's files. They aren't public, and we never restore removed builds. If you ask us to delete your personal data, we remove it from those backups too.

It helps to use the subject "Reader build removal [your submission number]".

Email a removal request

Prefer email?

Or email hello@sawdustsmart.com

"Open in your email app" opens a pre-filled email (subject "Reader build submission") in the mail app on your device, such as Apple Mail or Outlook. If nothing happens, or you use Gmail in a browser, choose "Open in Gmail" for the same pre-filled email. Or send an email to hello@sawdustsmart.com using the template below: the copy buttons put the address or the template on your clipboard.

What to send

  • Photos: up to 4 of your project, in good light. Original files, not screenshots. Tell us which one to show first.
  • A build title, and the display name to credit you with.
  • Your email address. We keep it private and never publish it.
  • A short note in your own words, up to 500 characters.
  • Optionally, one https link (your shop or social profile) and a label for it.

Email template

"Open in your email app" and "Open in Gmail" fill this in for you. Otherwise, use "Copy the template" (or copy it from the box below) and paste it into a new email with the subject "Reader build submission". Add your answers, attach up to 4 photos, and send.

Sending by email? Attach up to 4 photos. Email can't stop extra attachments, so if you send more, we'll only consider the first 4 attached.

Subject: Reader build submission

Hi Sawdust Smart,

Here's my build for the reader showcase. I've attached up to 4 photos (only the first 4 attached will be considered).

Build title: 
Plan I followed (if any): 
Display name to credit me as: 
Photo to show first (file name, or leave blank for the first one): 
Optional: one https link to your shop or profile, and a label for it: 
A short note about the build, in my own words (up to 500 characters): 

Permission (consent v3, please keep this paragraph): I took these photos, or I have the right to share them, and anyone who can be recognized in them has agreed to be shown (with a parent's or guardian's OK for anyone under 18). I'm 18 or older, or I'm 13 to 17 and my parent or guardian has agreed to this submission. I give Sawdust Smart a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to show my photos, photo descriptions, build title, and note, credited to my display name, on sawdustsmart.com and on Sawdust Smart's social media accounts. Sawdust Smart may crop and resize the photos and shorten or edit the text. I keep ownership of my photos, and I can withdraw this permission at any time by emailing hello@sawdustsmart.com to ask for removal. I've read the privacy policy (sawdustsmart.com/privacy/).

Optional: also send me the newsletter (16+, about one email a month; you'll get a confirmation email first): yes / no

If you're sending by email, the same permission applies: the template's permission paragraph is the same as the form's required box (consent v3). You can change your mind at any time.

How we use your submission

  • Reviewed by hand. Nothing is published until we approve it, and we may decline any submission.
  • Credited to your display name. Your builds appear together on your maker page under Reader builds. We never publish your email address.
  • Your link: if you add one, we show it with your credit. It should go to your own shop or profile. We may decline or remove a link, and linking to a site isn't an endorsement of it.
  • Where it appears: on sawdustsmart.com (your build page, your maker page, the All builds gallery, the RSS feed and share previews) and on Sawdust Smart's own social media accounts, as the required box says. Never on Pinterest auto-pins.
  • Photos may be cropped or resized. We remove hidden photo data before publishing, and we never add AI-generated captions or tags.
  • You keep ownership of your photos.
  • Not every build gets featured, and we don't pay for submissions. Featuring a build isn't a safety check or an endorsement of how it was made (see our terms).

Age: Not for children under 13. If you're 13 to 17, a parent or guardian must agree before you send a build, and we may email to check. Kids are welcome to share builds through a parent's submission.

A few requests

  • Please send only your own work and photos you took or own.
  • Leave people out of the photos if you can. If anyone recognizable appears, you must have their permission to send the photo for publication, and for anyone under 18, their parent's or guardian's permission. We won't publish photos showing children's faces.
  • Avoid anything that reveals where you live, like a house number or street sign in the background.
  • Projects that show unsafe practices (for example, missing blade guards in a shop photo) may not be featured.

See our privacy policy for how we handle submission emails and photos.