Restore a Gouge Handle, Part 1
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 For me, as well as for many other woodworkers (see Graham Haydon’s recent entry on his chisel), eBay is a great resource for good-quality tools. When an item is well described, correctly identified and accurately photographed, the risk we take by bidding is small yet it is very likely that the bidding war will be fierce and the concluding price will be high. On the other hand, there will […]The post Restore a Gouge Handle, Part 1 appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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posted at: 6:10am on 30-Sep-2015
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Make Wooden Try Squares
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 I had fancied making some wooden try squares for a while and reading Joshua Klein’s post on Romanticizing Toolswas a final nudge to get them done. Before embarking upon making them I also made the time to catch up with Roy Underhill & Chris Schwarz on the Woodright’s Shopwhere Chris demonstrates how he makes the squares found in Benjamin Seaton’s famous tool chest. You can also search Chris’ blog to […]The post Make Wooden Try Squares appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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posted at: 5:58am on 29-Sep-2015
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Vintage Steel at the Hand Tool Olympics
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 This week, at Woodworking in America in Kansas City, Mo., a saw almost a century old will find a new home with the winner of the Crosscuts Event at the Hand Tool Olympics (HTO). The HTO events held in the WIA Marketplace at the Sheraton Crown Center, 2345 McGee Street in Kansas City tests participants skills in ripping, crosscutting, augering, dovetailing, shooting an edge and making a tenon. […]The post Vintage Steel at the Hand Tool Olympics appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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posted at: 5:51am on 24-Sep-2015
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Frank Lloyd Wright Furniture, a Documentary
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Frank Lloyd Wright is possibly the most famous American architect of all time. On top of creating the most iconicbuildings of the modern era, he is perhaps lessknown as an importantfurniture designer of the 20th Century. My friend, design historian Daniella Ohad Smith, just releaseda documentary about Wright’s furniture and interiors. The film is geared toward furniture collectors but will educate and inspire anyone who is interested in furniture and […]The post Frank Lloyd Wright Furniture, a Documentary appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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posted at: 5:39am on 22-Sep-2015
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A Look at the Seaton Tool Chest
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 The first real tool chest that I built was based (loosely) on Benjamin Seatons famous tool chest that now resides at the Guildhall Museum in Rochester, England. Most woodworkers know it because of the famous book The Tool Chest of Benjamin Seaton now in its second edition, and one of the core books for hand-tool enthusiasts. Despite all my efforts and trips to England, Ive never gotten to see […]The post A Look at the Seaton Tool Chest appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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posted at: 5:26am on 20-Sep-2015
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Spoon Carving with Peter Follansbee on The Woodwrights Shop Free
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 Our latest kit of the month is all about carving (see below) and to pique your interest, here’s a free episode of Roy Underhill’s “The Woodwright’s Shop” featuring Peter Follansbee on carving Swedish-style spoons. Visit ShopWoodworking.com to purchase your carving kit today! Peter, Mary May and Alf Sharp are the stars of the “Carving Tips & Techniques” kit, which features five full-length instructional videos, a book and several article […]The post Spoon Carving with Peter Follansbee on ‘The Woodwright’s Shop’ Free appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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posted at: 5:26am on 19-Sep-2015
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An Interview with Christopher Schwarz
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 You guysmight know Christopher Schwarz. You know…he used to be the editor of our magazine, he’s a contributing editor and a regular blogger. Chrisis a pretty busy guy what with all of that stuff and his own publishing company Lost Art Press, not to mention time spent in the woodshop. A revised edition of his book, Workbenches: From Design & Theory to Construction & Use, will be published in October […]The post An Interview with Christopher Schwarz appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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posted at: 5:26am on 19-Sep-2015
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Chinese Workbenches a Little Bit Roman?
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 When you start studying ancient woodworking tools, its the similarities that are most striking not the differences. Saws, chisels and planes the core tools of the furniture maker are only mildly different in the East and West. While some people amplify those differences pushing a saw vs. pulling it is one example these are largely artificial. All cultures both push and pull tools. And using […]The post Chinese Workbenches a Little Bit Roman? appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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posted at: 5:26am on 18-Sep-2015
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One Week until Woodworking in America
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 At this time a week from today, I’ll be setting up benches and classrooms in Kansas City, Mo., for Woodworking in America 2015 (unless something goes wrong terribly wrong with the truck…or we stuck in what appears to be a vexing amount of construction between here and there). The conference starts bright and early on Friday morning at 8:30 a.m., with six classes from which to choose: Christopher Schwarz on […]The post One Week until Woodworking in America appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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posted at: 5:26am on 18-Sep-2015
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Vintage Chisel Bliss
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 I can’t help it. AndI don’t want to help it. Between projects, I really enjoy getting to know different tools and discovering what I like and why I like them. It’s good fun and this vintage chisel is no exception. I don’t think I’ve ever had that freedom within my job as a joiner, but when the working day ends and I can do things on my own terms, I […]The post Vintage Chisel Bliss appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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posted at: 4:50am on 15-Sep-2015
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Cheap, Simple & Portable (Yes, Another Workbench)
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 Though I find it darn-near impossible to believe, it has been more than five years since we published plans for a full-sized workbench. That was Christopher Schwarz’s “Return of Roubo,” the cherry-topped bench he built using mostly hand tools (you’ll find it in the August 2010 issue as well as on a download, “Build an 18th-Century Workbench” that includes a bunch of additional resources). Chris is back to bench building […]The post Cheap, Simple & Portable (Yes, Another Workbench) appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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posted at: 4:04am on 12-Sep-2015
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Small Tool Organization
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 Shop organization is likely a recurring topic throughout anyone’s woodworking career. That’s why we devoted several articles to the topic in our Woodworking Essentials column inPopular Woodworking Magazine back in 2007. The column has returned as a new book compiling those articles into one handy volume, “Woodworking Essentials: Timeless Techniques for Woodworkers.” While some of photos from the book are vintage (see if you can spot some oldies, but goodies),the […]The post Small Tool Organization appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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posted at: 4:04am on 12-Sep-2015
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The Apprentice
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 Persistence (and a crazy mother) can help. by Elia Bizzarri page 64 from the November 2011 issue I slept on a cot in the loft of the shop, cooked on a portable burner, and walked my dirty dishes through the garden to the basement sink. Curtis Buchanan walked in at seven one morning to discover white splotches on a pair of freshly painted chairs waiting to be delivered. Oatmeal-water splotches. […]The post The Apprentice appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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posted at: 3:45am on 10-Sep-2015
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In Praise of the Engineers Hammer (aka a Lump Hammer)
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 While I was at David Savages workshop I was delighted and surprised to see he used a lump hammer for assembling casework. David brought the hammer to my workbench when he helped me knock together my dovetailed tool chest carcase for a class. And when he saw me smile hugely at the lump hammer (instead of recoiling in horror, which is what I think he was expecting), he told me […]The post In Praise of the Engineers Hammer (aka a Lump Hammer) appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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posted at: 3:44am on 09-Sep-2015
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On Cabinetmakers Hammers & Where to Buy Them
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 Ill begin with the top-notch U.S.-made hammers that were introduced to the market in recent years. Kings County Cabinetmakers Hammer At the top of the list stands the Gramercy Tools “Kings County” hammer. This is a 9.5 oz tool that looks like the Victorian ancestor of both the French/German and the Warrington hammers (that I wrote about here). Graham Haydon tells me that in the U.K., it resembles the Exeter […]The post On Cabinetmakers’ Hammers & Where to Buy Them appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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posted at: 3:44am on 09-Sep-2015
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A Tour of David Savages Workshop and School
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 For the last two weeks Ive been teaching a course and talking a class in veneering at David Savages school and workshop, which sits on a farm in rural Devon. It is an inspiring place where amateurs and professionals hone their skills to the highest level piston-fit drawers, London-pattern dovetails, drawing, design, veneering and French polishing. And unlike many places Ive taught, the makers there make no distinction between […]The post A Tour of David Savages Workshop and School appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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posted at: 3:32am on 06-Sep-2015
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A Furniture Show, Vandals & a Mystery
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 Two weeks ago I managed to spend a few hours at the Celebration of Craftsmanship & Design in Cheltenham, an impressive display of bespoke furniture makers both young and seasoned. Contemporary English furniture always makes my head shift gears. Most of the stuff I see in America has roots in traditional design. But in England they are much more likely to go for broke with their designs. Some succeed; some […]The post A Furniture Show, Vandals & a Mystery appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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posted at: 3:32am on 06-Sep-2015
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Finishing Furniture Projects
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 I recently found myself with that most fortunate of situations a whole day in the shop. I knew exactly what I wanted to do: get some furniture projects finished. I had three waiting for the right moment to apply the final touches. The first of them was a simple nailed board chest. I found inspiration for the design by browsing Pinterest. There, I discovered an 18th-century example I was […]The post Finishing Furniture Projects appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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posted at: 3:29am on 04-Sep-2015
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On Cabinetmakers Hammers & Their Usefulness
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 After concluding my very subjective series on the best design for round-headed mallets, I decided to dedicate one (or two) entries to the cabinetmakers hammer. Traditionally, hammers are used for driving nails head on, driving nails using a nail set, and for persuading stubborn furniture parts to get together during glue-ups. But because the craft of making quality furniture has became predominantly associated with wooden joinery techniques, and with the […]The post On Cabinetmakers’ Hammers & Their Usefulness appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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posted at: 3:29am on 04-Sep-2015
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On Cabinetmakers Hammers & Their Usefulness
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After concluding my very subjective series on the best design for round-headed mallets, I decided to dedicate one (or two) entries to the cabinetmakers hammer. Traditionally, hammers are used for driving nails head on, driving nails using a nail set, and for persuading stubborn furniture parts to get together during glue-ups. But because the craft of making quality furniture has became predominantly associated with wooden joinery techniques, and with the […]The post On Cabinetmakers Hammers & Their Usefulness appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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posted at: 3:27am on 03-Sep-2015
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Hand-tool Cleanup
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 Most of my good woodworking tools have sat idle since April 10 or so, when I packed them up to move out of my old house, then hauled them to the Popular Woodworking shop for storage and safekeeping during my brief period of relative homelessness. (I was living at a friend’s house, and only until I could find a new place to buy no sense in hauling my tools […]The post Hand-tool Cleanup appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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posted at: 3:24am on 02-Sep-2015
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