The Mistakes of First-time Bench-builders
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If you're about to embark on building your first workbench, you might want to read this blog entry. I expect you to discard every piece of advice in it (most bench-builders do) and build the crazy contraption you've planned out in your head. Here, in my opinion, are the most common missteps woodworkers make when they build their first workbench. 1. Too many workholding devices I've built workbenches with more []
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Nailing It
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The topic of nails comes up quite often here in the Popular Woodworking Magazine(PWM) office and on the blogs. This morning I arrived in the office to find an e-mail from a reader that included a link to a short film. With the Academy Awards occurring last night, and this film having been nominated for one back in 1980, I thought it an appropriate time to bring up the subject []
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Spoon Carving The Next Hot Thing?
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Plans are underway in the U.K. for the third Spoonfest 2014 The International Celebration of the Carved Wooden Spoon (Aug. 1-3, in Edale, in the stunning Lake District). It sounds amazing, kind of like a Grateful Dead concert crossed with a wood-carving festival. I want to go, but alas, my caravan wont make it across the pond this year. The Spoon, the Bowl and the Knife, a documentary []
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