Ted's Woodworking Review 2026: What You Actually Get for $67

Ted's Woodworking is a downloadable library of woodworking project plans sold as a one-time purchase through ClickBank. The pitch is volume: the vendor advertises 16,000 project plans with step-by-step instructions, cutting lists, materials lists and schematics, plus 150 premium video classes and new plans added every month. Categories cover furniture, small crafts, outdoor projects and workshop builds.

It is not a course. Nobody teaches you to cut a dovetail or tune a hand plane. It is a reference library — an enormous pile of "here is a thing you could build, and here is roughly how" — and it should be judged as one. The right question is not "will this make me a better woodworker?" It is "is a giant, cheap, loosely curated plan library more useful to me than the free plans already on the internet?"

That question has a real answer, and it depends almost entirely on what kind of person you are. If you enjoy browsing, if the bottleneck in your shop is deciding what to build next, and if you're experienced enough to look at a drawing and know whether it's any good, a $67 idea bank is not a bad deal. If you need a plan you can trust without checking it — because you're new, or because you're about to cut into $200 of walnut — this is the wrong shape of product for you, at any price.

The verdict box

Verdict: worth a look on price alone, but buy with your eyes open (research-based, not yet hands-on — so we are not scoring it)

Best for: hobby woodworkers who want a very large, cheap idea bank and don't mind doing their own quality filtering.

Skip if: you want a small set of carefully drafted, verified plans, or you don't want to be walked through several paid offers after you've already paid.

Price: $67 one-time. Guarantee: 60 days, per the vendor's order page.

What's inside, according to the vendor

Everything in this section is what the vendor says is included. We have flagged it as a vendor claim rather than restating it as fact, because we have not opened the member area ourselves.

The vendor states the package contains:

• 16,000 project plans. Step-by-step instructions with cutting lists, materials lists and schematics, sorted into furniture, small crafts, outdoor and workshop categories.
• 150 premium video classes. Presented as a bonus valued at $77 on the order page.
• Lifetime monthly plans. New downloadable projects added each month at no extra cost.
• A DWG/CAD plan viewer, presented as a $47-value bonus, so plans in CAD formats can be opened without buying software.
• A "How To Start A Woodworking Business" guide, presented as a $27-value bonus.
• Complete woodworking guides, presented as a $39-value bonus.
• Custom plan requests. The vendor says members can ask for a plan that isn't in the library.

A note on those "value" figures: they are marketing constructions. Nobody is selling that CAD viewer for $47 in a real market. Attaching a dollar value to each bonus so the stack sounds like it's worth hundreds is a standard direct-response technique, and it tells you something about how the product is sold, not about what the product is worth.

The homepage also offers 50 free plans and a 440-page book called The Art of Woodworking in exchange for an email address. If you want to sample the style of the material before spending anything, that is the honest way to do it — and we'd suggest doing exactly that before you buy.

Pros

The entry price is genuinely low. $67 once, for a library this size, is not much money by the standards of woodworking. A single sheet of decent plywood costs a meaningful fraction of it. If even two dozen plans in the library turn out to be worth building, the maths works.

There is a documented way to get your money back. The order page states a 60-day money-back guarantee, and the purchase runs through ClickBank, which operates its own refund process independently of the vendor. That is a materially better position than buying from a standalone site with no third-party processor.

Cut lists and materials lists are the right inclusion. The single most annoying thing about free plans scattered across the internet is that so many of them are a photo and a vague description. The vendor says every plan comes with a cutting list, a materials list and a schematic. If that holds up across the library, it is the feature that justifies paying anything at all.

Category structure suits browsing. Furniture, small crafts, outdoor, workshop — these are the four buckets most hobby woodworkers actually think in. For "it's Saturday, what am I building?", a browsable categorised library beats a search engine.

It's a one-time payment, not a subscription. The base offer is a single charge. Subject to the caveats in the upsell section below, you are not signing up for something that quietly bills you forever.

Cons

These are the three things we'd want someone to know before they clicked buy, plus a couple more.

1. The upsell sequence after checkout is aggressive

This is the biggest single mark against the product, and it gets its own section below. In short: paying $67 is not the end of the transaction. ClickBank funnel data for this offer lists a sequence of additional paid offers presented after payment — around $49, then $39.95, then $39.97, with a $27 downsell if you decline, plus a recurring monthly membership. If you accept everything put in front of you, you can spend well over $200 in a single sitting plus a monthly charge, having arrived intending to spend $67.

None of that is hidden in the sense of being illegal, and nobody is forced to accept any of it. But a buyer who assumes "$67 and I'm done" is going to be surprised, and a fair review says so before the fact rather than after.

2. The sales page is dated and high-pressure

The order page runs a countdown claiming the one-time price expires in two days, after which the offer converts to a monthly membership. The page is long-form direct-response copy in a style that peaked about fifteen years ago, with stacked bonuses carrying invented dollar values.

This isn't just an aesthetic complaint. High-pressure framing exists to stop you comparing the product to alternatives, and on this page it works against a buyer who would be better served by spending twenty minutes on free plan sites first. It also makes the genuinely reasonable parts of the offer — a low price and a real guarantee — harder to see.

3. Plan quality, curation and the plan count are widely criticised

The most substantive public critique comes from the woodworking site woodgears.ca, which published a detailed examination of the package. Its central claims, which we're attributing to that source rather than asserting ourselves: that the real number of distinct plans is well under 3,000 rather than 16,000; that plans it sampled at random could be traced to freely available original sources via a web search; and that the "150 premium videos" are publicly available YouTube and Vimeo clips embedded in the member site, some of them a decade or more old and some with dead links.

Those are serious allegations about the accuracy of the marketing, and we have not independently tested them — we've reported them because they come from an established woodworking source and because the same themes recur across other independent reviews: inconsistent level of detail between plans, poor organisation of files, and some plans lacking usable dimensions. The vendor's position is its own marketing copy, which makes none of these concessions.

The fair summary is this: the criticism is specific, it is documented, and it has been public for years. Whether it makes the product worthless depends on what you want from it. A library where a third of the plans are excellent and the rest are noise is still worth $67 to the right person — but that person needs to know the filtering is their job.

4. Vendor figures are unaudited

"16,000 plans" and "150 premium video classes" are numbers the vendor states about itself. Nobody outside has confirmed them, and at least one detailed public analysis disputes the first one directly. We're reporting both as claims, and so should any review you read.

5. You cannot skip the sales page

The vendor's affiliate terms explicitly forbid affiliates from linking straight to checkout — every purchase must route through the main site. That means our link, and every other affiliate link, drops you at the top of the long sales page rather than at a clean product page. We'd rather send you to a plain summary of what you're buying. We're not permitted to, and it's worth knowing that the funnel you're about to walk through is mandatory by design.

This is the section the rest of the review builds toward, and we're putting all of it in one place rather than scattering it.

The price we confirmed

$67, one time. Verified on the vendor's live order page on 16 September 2026. That single payment is advertised as buying the full plan library, the video classes, the bonuses and lifetime access to the monthly additions. The page frames it as a limited-time alternative to a monthly membership, and separately references a standard membership at $39 per month.

The guarantee we confirmed. The same page states a 60-day, no-questions-asked, 100% satisfaction money-back guarantee. The vendor's homepage does not mention a guarantee at all — you have to reach the order page to see it. Purchases process through ClickBank, which runs its own refund procedure.

What comes after you pay

Based on ClickBank funnel data for this offer, the post-purchase sequence looks like this. We have marked it unverified because we have not walked it ourselves, and because a funnel can change without notice.

Accept everything and you spend roughly $223 up front plus a monthly charge. Accept nothing beyond the front end and you spend $67 and still get the advertised library. Both of those statements are true, and the gap between them is why this section exists.

Two practical pieces of advice. First, read every screen between payment and download — the offers are presented as part of the checkout flow, and clicking through quickly is how people end up with charges they didn't intend. Second, check your card statement after the first month. If a recurring charge appears that you didn't knowingly agree to, ClickBank's support is the place to take it, and your order number is what you'll need.

We'd genuinely suggest spending an hour with the free options before spending $67, because for a lot of people they solve the whole problem.

Ana White — free. Beginner-focused furniture plans in construction lumber, with cut lists and shopping lists. The important feature is the comments: people post photos and corrections after building each piece, which is a form of quality control Ted's Woodworking has no equivalent for. If you're building your first bookshelf or workbench, start here.

Woodworking for Mere Mortals — free. Steve Ramsey's videos and plans, aimed at people with a small shop and a modest tool collection. If what you're actually short of is technique rather than project ideas, this is a better use of your time and it costs nothing.

Fine Woodworking membership — paid subscription. The opposite trade-off: far fewer projects, professionally drafted and editorially reviewed, plus a deep archive on technique. Choose this if curation matters more to you than volume.

Individual plan purchases — a few dollars each. If you want two or three specific builds rather than a library, buying vetted individual plans usually costs less than $67 and removes the sorting problem completely.

Your local library — free. Woodworking books and back issues of the major woodworking magazines are standard library stock, and they are the original source material behind a great deal of what circulates online.

A cheap, enormous, badly sold library — defensible for experienced browsers, wrong for beginners.

Ted's Woodworking is cheap, enormous, and sold badly. Those three things are all true at once, and how you weigh them decides whether it's worth your $67.

The case for buying it: it costs less than a decent chisel, the order page carries a 60-day money-back guarantee backed by a mainstream payment processor, and if you're the kind of woodworker who wants a big browsable idea bank and can tell a good drawing from a bad one at a glance, volume has real value. Worst case, you ask for your money back inside 60 days.

The case against: the marketing claims are disputed by established woodworking sources, the curation appears to be genuinely poor, the videos may be public clips, and you will be walked through several hundred dollars of additional offers between paying and downloading. If you're new enough that you need to trust a plan rather than audit it, this library puts the audit on you — and that's the wrong way round.

Our honest recommendation: spend an hour on the free options first. Ana White and Woodworking for Mere Mortals cost nothing and cover most beginner projects properly. Take the vendor's 50 free plans via the email signup and look at the actual quality before you decide. If, after that, you still want the big library as a browsing resource, $67 with a 60-day guarantee is a defensible gamble — just go in knowing what's after the checkout button, and decline everything you didn't come for.

And one last time, plainly: we have not used this product, which is why there is no number on this page — our policy is not to score what we have not tested. The verdict above is a research-based starting position, and we'll revise it — in either direction — and publish a scored verdict once we have. ****

Sources consulted: tedswoodworking.com homepage and order page (checked 16 Sep 2026); the vendor's published affiliate support page; woodgears.ca's published critique of the package; ClickBank marketplace funnel data.

Note for the site build: the vendor's affiliate terms prohibit linking directly to the ClickBank checkout URL. Every /go/tedswoodworking redirect must resolve to the main tedswoodworking.com site, never to tedsplans.pay.clickbank.net.