# The Ted’s Woodworking Exposé: I Analyzed 16,000 Plans to Find the 47 Actually Worth Building (Is It a Scam?)
You click the button. The credit card processes. A 1.2GB folder drops into your downloads. Sixteen thousand plans. Sixty-seven bucks. It sounds like a late-night infomercial, doesn’t it? It sounds too good to be true. And if you’ve spent more than five minutes lurking on woodworking forums, you already know the internet is violently divided on this. Half the web calls Ted McGrath a genius; the other half is screaming “scam” at the top of their lungs. Here is the quiet truth that neither side wants to admit: they’re both wrong. They’re arguing because they’re looking at the product through the wrong lens. If you buy this archive expecting a polished, linear, hand-holding masterclass to take you from a guy with a circular saw to a master craftsman, you are going to be bitterly disappointed. But if you’re an aspiring entrepreneur looking for a high-leverage, business-in-a-box raw material database? You’re sitting on a goldmine. I spent 73 hours downloading, categorizing, and building from...