The Dovetail Doctor: The Sterling Dovetailing Ruler
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 When cutting precision joinery by hand, sometimes a joint thats off by a fraction of a degree is the difference between it seating or splitting apart. When diagnosing joinery problems of students, I use a vintage diemakers square (I wrote about this in 2013 here). It allows me to sneak into places no normal square can go and is more accurate than my eyeball. Diemakers squares can be expensive, so […]The post The Dovetail Doctor: The Sterling Dovetailing Ruler appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Cheap Saws Part 1
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 I like to be honest about sharing what works well for me, even if that view might be unpopular: I sometimes recommend saws of the disposable type. And this and my following post, I’ll justify that. It can be a hard sell; “disposable” is a big mental hurdle to overcome so I’ll deal with that first. When these saws become blunt they cannot be sharpened. But when most of […]The post Cheap Saws – Part 1 appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Hand Tools vs Power Tools for Beginners
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 Do you start a kid (or kid at heart) down the woodworking rabbit hole via hand tools, power tools or both? The more time I spend teaching woodworking, observing students learning and contemplating the woodworking teaching process, the more Im leaning toward the idea that power-tools should be eliminated, or drastically reduced particularly for young woodworkers. I am not against power tools at all. In fact, Ill only give […]The post Hand Tools vs Power Tools for Beginners appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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