Soup Up a Veneer Saw with Mario Rodriguez
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Once at a woodworking show, I witnessed Frank Pollaro making up veneered chess boards. He must have produced more than 30 pieces and each was perfect. The seams were tight and clean; there was no tear-out or split veneer. What impressed me most was that he was getting these results straight from his veneer saw, with no fussing or cleaning up on a shooting board later. After that, I was […]The post Soup Up a Veneer Saw with Mario Rodriguez appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Better Start Building, Excellence Awards Deadline Fast Approaching
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Just a reminder that the deadline is fast approaching for the 2014 PWM Excellence Awards; all entries must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. on June 20. Winning work will be featured in the November 2014 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine. Weve already received a number of entries (you can view them by clicking here)but do we have yours? If not, click here to enter (and for a full run-down of []
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posted at: 12:01am on 30-May-2014
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Learn to Design Furniture and Build Reproductions
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Early on in my woodworking career, I fancied myself a designer. I wanted to create new and exciting stuff and managed to have my work accepted in some pretty good arts & crafts shows. My qualifications? I had read A Cabinetmakers Notebook, had the tools, access to wood and I was willing to experiment. Thirty years later I still have some of those pieces and a few have sidled their []
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Design in Practice: Stylin'
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A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the roots of Arts & Crafts furniture and, in the comments,reference was made to what makes a particular furniture style? From the first time I took a class trip toColonial Williamsburg (it was the Bicentennialeveryone went to Williamsburg, right?) I was drawn to period furnitureI didnt know why but I liked it. Ive been studying it so long theres just lots ofaspects []
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posted at: 12:01am on 29-May-2014
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Threadboxes: One More Song the Radio Wont Like
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Whenever I write about threadboxes, my personal blog gets swamped with spam from the Pacific Rim. So batten down the firewalls, mateys. I started writing about the Moxon double-screw vise in 2010 (original post here) and have made many of them using a threadbox and tap that you can buy from many reputable woodworking stores. My first threadbox worked fine until it needed sharpening. The blade was so brittle that [
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posted at: 12:10am on 28-May-2014
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Chairmakers, Roundtable at Woodworking in America
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Because of the wealth of many excellent chairmakers who are teaching at Woodworking in America 2014 (Sept. 12-14, Winston-Salem. N.C.), among our session offerings is the Chairmakers Roundtable, on Saturday afternoon. Initially, the panel discussion was slated to include Peter Galbert, Drew Langser, Don Williams and Phil Lowe. Chuck Bender, who is also an excellent maker of things upon which to set your posterior, was scheduled to teach another session []
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posted at: 12:00am on 25-May-2014
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About Me & Woodworking in America
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It's a strange world where I need to write a blog entry about this topic. Recently Editor Megan Fitzpatrick and I have been getting e-mails and phone calls with this basic question: Why isn't Schwarz going to Woodworking in America? Then they ask: Is it because Popular Woodworking Magazine doesn't want him there? Is it because I don't want to attend? Is Chris finally getting that gender-changing [
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posted at: 12:03am on 24-May-2014
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Puzzle Stool Video, a Different Project, a Different Kind of Video
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There are many ways to learn woodworking and I think making a project is way better than getting bogged down in theory, tool collecting or setting up the ultimate shop. A good project offers a challenge and more often than not you can work with the tools and shop you have. One of my all-time favorite projects is the three-legged stool seen here. You dont need a ton of tools []
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posted at: 12:00am on 22-May-2014
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Puzzle Stool Video, a Different Project, a Different Kind of Video
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There are many ways to learn woodworking and I think making a project is way better than getting bogged down in theory, tool collecting or setting up the ultimate shop. A good project offers a challenge and more often than not you can work with the tools and shop you have. One of my all-time favorite projects is the three-legged stool seen here. You dont need a ton of tools []
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posted at: 12:00am on 22-May-2014
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Greene & Greene-inspired Games Table
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At the Lie-Nielsen show in our shop in April, 16-year-old Jalen Waggoner (whom you might remember for his Blacker House chair, which was featured in the November 2013 issue as a winner in the PWM Excellence Awards) stopped in, and brought with him his latest project in progress: a Greene & Greene-inspired games table. As you can see above, the work is now complete, and well worth sharing.
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posted at: 12:00am on 22-May-2014
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The Monogamy has Ended
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When I teach people to sharpen edge tools, I am very much an, I'm OK, you're OK, guy about the kinds of systems out there and whether you should use jigs or not. But there is one thing I'm all fire and waterstones about: Stick with one system until you know it, at least 12 months. I call it, sharpening monogamy. I also practice "saw monogamy" and the regular []
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posted at: 12:00am on 22-May-2014
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It Floats. It's Full of Stars!
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I have lost track of how many vises I've built or installed on workbenches. So my early-morning giddiness about the Benchcrafted Crisscross is worth note. This week I'm putting a leg vise on my Holtzapffel workbench that will have both the new Benchcrafted Classic vise screw and the Crisscross Retro (instead of a parallel guide). I've used vises with the Crisscross installed, but this is the first Crisscross I've installed []
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posted at: 12:00am on 21-May-2014
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Four-hour Pot Rack
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The headline is a bit misleading, this really took me only about two hours to build, start to finish, including a break to empty the dust collector. But Im counting the one-and-a-half hours in between when I dropped off the metal bits to be cut to length and when they were ready to be picked up, plus the 20 minutes I had to wait for my neighbor to finish []
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posted at: 12:02am on 20-May-2014
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5 Mistakes Beginners Make with Block Planes
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When I teach beginners, one of the most common phrases I hear is, I cannot get this (insert tool name) to work. What's wrong? They hand the tool to me and the fun begins. Though block planes are dirt-simple handplanes, there are some important points about them that are rarely discussed in the literature. Here are the five most common problems I see with students, block planes. 1. Too tight. []
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posted at: 12:00am on 17-May-2014
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Furniture Details: Yep, Philly Wins Again
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Last Friday I talked about through mortise-and-tenon joinery in 18th century chairs in my post Furniture Details: Why Philadelphia is Just Better.In the post I mentioned through mortises are not the only differences between Philadelphia chairs and chairs from other regions. This week I wanted to discuss another difference, seat construction. Im not referring to the actual slip seat on which you sit; Im talking about how the chair []
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posted at: 12:00am on 17-May-2014
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Another Engine
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I have lost track of the number of wooden try squares I've built in the last five years. At this time last year I had the parts for about 20 mahogany squares in my shop. Now I'm down to one (the rattiest one I couldn't sell) and some special parts for squares that I dont want really want to build. That's not entirely true; I really want to build them, []
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Making a Vise Chop for a Benchcrafted Classic
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I started making the wooden vise chop for a new leg vise for my Holtzapffel workbench (featured in The Workbench Design Book) using some crazy new hardware from Benchcrafted: the Classic vise screw and the Crisscross. The only downside to the Crisscross part of the assembly is that you need a vise chop that is quite thick 3 is a good thickness. I dont have any maple in my […]The post Making a Vise Chop for a Benchcrafted Classic appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Renewal Scam Alert
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As good as I think our magazine is, it’s not worth $59.95 a year*. A scam company is perpetrating fraud with the spurious renewal offer pictured above. Do not respond. (And please know that we are taking steps with the U.S. Postal Service and consumer agencies to address the problem and take appropriate legal action.) Our subscription fulfillment service is Palm Coast Data (also rendered as PCD in some places), […]The post Renewal Scam Alert appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Catharine Kennedy, Coping Saws & More in August
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Our designer, Dan Pessell, is putting the final file touches on the August issue, which leaves our hands on Thursday. So I should be hard at work editing articles now for October and beyond. I am, but I needed a break. So here’s a quick look at what’s coming up in the August issue (subscribe now to get this issue). It mails to subscribers on or around June 11. As […]The post Catharine Kennedy, Coping Saws & More in August appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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posted at: 12:00am on 14-May-2014
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Tightening the "Stay-Set" Chipbreaker
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Last week I took my new Clifton No. 5 to teach a full-size toolchest class at The Woodworkers Club in Rockville, Md. Several of the students used it on their toolchests, which they made using cherry, pine or poplar. The plane did quite well the iron stayed sharp through planing up an entire case. As I mentioned in my entry on this plane last week, my only quibble was []The post Tightening the Stay-Set Chipbreaker appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Dovetail Marking Gauge Roundup
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Whenever one of my dovetail marking gauges shows up in the magazine, in a blog post or a tweet, I get questions about it, so Ive written about it before. And today, I got another question about the one (shown above) that I use in a YouTube video on using dividers to lay out DTs. Its the Precision Dovetail Template from Woodjoy tools, with a 1:6 slope on one []The post Dovetail Marking Gauge Roundup appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Senco Event Wrap-up
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Last week’s Senco event here in the workshop at Popular Woodworking Magazine was a blast! If you missed it then you missed seeing, learning about and trying the best new tools Senco has to offer this year. The Senco crew came out in force to introduce readers to their products. We had not just one but three product managers present. These guys know their products like no one else. They […]The post Senco Event Wrap-up appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Furniture Details: Why Philadelphia is Just Better
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Short of that stint living in Anchorage (yep, Alaska) from birth until I was about 2 years old, and the last seven months or so living in the Cincinnati area, I’ve lived the vast majority of my life outside of Philadelphia. You might be thinking that is the singular reason for the title of my post but you’d be wrong. While I truly enjoyed being completely immersed in the history […]The post Furniture Details: Why Philadelphia is Just Better appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Zachary Dillinger a 2014 EAL Top Traditional Craftsman
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Woodworker Zachary Dillinger, of Charlotte, Mich., has been named to Early American Life magazine’s 2014 Directory of Traditional American Crafts in the Painted/Formal Furniture category. You’ll find this year’s list in the magazine’s June issue. Zach (whose spice chest shown at left was featured in our August 2013 issue), is only 30 years old, but he’s been making things for two decades. Since 2008, hes focused almost solely on authentic […]The post Zachary Dillinger a 2014 EAL Top Traditional Craftsman appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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posted at: 12:00am on 09-May-2014
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Last Call
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As the time draws near, a couple of spots have opened for the Senco event here at Popular Woodworking Magazine. They are bringing in their newest pinner, the 21LXP (which wont even be available to dealers at the time of the event) for you to try, along with lots of other new products. Senco and PWM are giving away door prizes and everyone will get some swag. I forgot to []
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posted at: 12:00am on 06-May-2014
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Shannon Rogers' Big French Saw. Dang.
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Shannon Rogers of the Hand Tool School brought along his 48"-long Roubo frame saw to the Saturday meeting of the Chesapeake chapter of the Society of American Furniture Makers, explained its details and (most importantly) let us try it out during lunch. It was so effortless to use (as long as you used your legs to propel it) that I wanted to resaw the entire board. Shannon has put a []
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posted at: 12:06am on 04-May-2014
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The Church of "Leave me Alone, Please"
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During the last 17 years that I have been using a honing guide to sharpen, I've been approached (sometimes nearly assaulted) by people who want to teach me to sharpen freehand. My response: I sharpen freehand all the time. They don't believe me, and so they spend an hour or so to show me how they hone their edges. Then they want me to try their technique and say: hat's []
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Settling Debts: An Update on Clifton Handplanes
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Though Ive been a non-editor at both Popular Woodworking and The Fine Tool Journal for almost three years now, I still have debts to pay. And I take those debts seriously. One of my first reviews for The Fine Tool Journal, which was reprinted in the book Handplane Essentials, is a review of Clifton bench planes. I had some of the first-ever Clifton planes, which were both spectacular and troubling. […]The post Settling Debts: An Update on Clifton Handplanes appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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No, No They Arent
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I was recently at a home center in desperate search of wood screws in large quantities (our local woodworking stores close far too early…or I work too late). All the home center had available in wood screws was two boxes of 50. That is not a large quantity when one is screwing kitchen cabinets together, adding drawer slides, etc. So I grabbed a hardware-area customer service person and asked if […]The post No, No They Aren’t appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Riveting Joinery, Spoon Carving & More
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Our June 2014 issue is now available at ShopWoodworking.com in print, or right away as a PDF download. Inside, you’ll discover how to “rivet” corners using brass screws (bonus: you don’t have to clock them!) from Christopher Schwarz; learn how to carve spoons with Peter Follansbee (who, I’m delighted to announce, has signed on as our new Arts & Mysteries columnist commencing with the October 2014 issue); a contemporary take […]The post ‘Riveting’ Joinery, Spoon Carving & More appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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