Book Review: Woods in British Furniture-Making
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I try to keep Adam Bowett's book "Woods in British Furniture-Making 1400-1900" closed tight as much as possible. That's because every time I open it, I lose at least an hour of my day reading a section of the book that I hadn't yet discovered. "Woods in British Furniture-Making 1400-1900" (Oblong Creative, 2012) is a massive text in every sense. Measuring 9-3/4" x 13" with 360 pages of extensively footnoted []
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Good Woodworking Reads
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Today, I was coding the Great Woodshops article on Jeff Miller that Christopher Schwarz wrote for our February 2012 issue, and I categorized it in our back end under interviews. (Its an online extra to go with Jeffs February 2014 articleyes, Im a little late on getting that done.) On the front end, when I went to view the post to make sure I didnt screw up any paragraphs returns []
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Still Shooting
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Some time ago I posted about theLee Valley Shooting Plane. In that post I used a shop-made shooting board. That will be the subject of todays lessonerr, blog post. When I made the quick video about the Lee Valley plane, I had no shooting board in the shop. I was still in the midst of moving from Pennsylvania and mine were either packed away somewhere or still to be packed. []
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