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A Quick Tip for Half-blind Dovetails

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Its Sunday, and Im at work to process lumber so that I can get started on a project that involves 44 half-blind dovetails for the October issue of the magazine. And its possible that on Saturday night I had one-too many adult libations (or I perhaps just didnt sleep long enoughor both); Im feeling a

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The Milkman's Workbench in Use

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The Milkman's Workbench, a portable bench I built for the June 2013 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine, is about 653 percent better than my first workbench. Thanks to the clever engineering in the portable bench, it can handle most handwork tasks when clamped to a dining room table or kitchen countertop. My first

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Choose Dovetails, But Choose Wisely

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I spend hours looking at photos of furniture. If I dont have my nose buried in books, I gaze upon photos sent to me by other woodworkers. In a flickr set sent to me by Mark Firley (thanks, Mark), I stopped on a bow-front chest photo. (I think Mark was on a dovetail expedition that

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