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The Hand Tool Olympics: Sawdust, Fun & $2,500 in Prizes

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London, 2012 Usain Bolt runs the 100-meter dash in 9.63 seconds. Mexico City, 1968 Bob Beamon flies 29′, 2″ in the long jump. Berlin, 1936 Jessie Owens wins four gold medals. Impressive Olympic feats but can they saw straight? Cut a dovetail? Forget therunners and jumpers and gymnasts the real Olympic competitors will be at the Hand Tool Olympics at Woodworking in America 2015, Sept. 25-27 […]The post The Hand Tool Olympics: Sawdust, Fun & $2,500 in Prizes appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.

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A (Still) Better Way to Plane Chair Seats

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For many years Ive used the following trick to plane irregular-shaped objects: Screw a square block to the underside of the piece and then clamp that block in my face vise. Its a trick that I showed in my 2007 book Workbenches: From Design & Theory to Construction & Use. (Psst, the second edition is coming out later this year.) I find it especially useful for planing up the seats […]The post A (Still) Better Way to Plane Chair Seats appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.

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What Do You Call a Group of Woodworkers? A Grove!

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Thanks toBill Lattanzio, we now have a collective noun to describe a gathering of woodworkers a “grove.” Bill was the first of several readers who suggested “grove” as the most appropriate term for a group of woodworkers. The blue-ribbon task force advisory panel steering committee I chaired also selected “grove” as the winning entry. Webster’s New World College Dictionary (The official dictionary of Popular Woodworking) defines a grove as: […]The post What Do You Call a Group of Woodworkers? A Grove! appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.

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