Successful Screwing
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Everything you always wanted to know about screws, but were afraid to ask. By Robert W. Lang Pages: 82-85 Many of the tools and fasteners we use in woodworking have been around for thousands of years. The concept of the screw goes back to the ancient Greeks. Archimedes took a wedge, a simple but powerful
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Drawboring Demystified
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This ancient mortise-and-tenon joinery technique needs no glue, no clamps. by Jennie Alexander & Peter Follansbee Pages 53-57 Simply put, drawboring is an intentional misalignment of the holes bored in the mortises and tenons. These holes are bored through each component separately, and they are offset so that a tapered pin driven into them will
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Added Incentive for WIA 2013 Early Bird Registration
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Woodworking in America 2013 is October 18-20 at the Northern Kentucky Convention center. Its three days of woodworking fun and education sessions (47 of them!), plus two days of the Marketplace where you can see and try out the best collection of tools under one roof anywhere, and talk with the makers (thats not
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Notes on the Two-day Workbench
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If I told you that shooting a woodworking DVD is hard work you'd probably laugh. It sounds like a supermodel complaining about a photo shoot for the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine. So I won't tell you how we worked under hot lights with no air conditioning (the microphones pick up the fan noise), or that
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