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A Few Thoughts

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Filled mahogany grain on the rightI just finished reading an article on filling pores, and it reminded me of several things Ive been meaning to say. First, filling pores is primarily a refinishing operation because so much of the old factory-made and finished furniture is mahogany with filled pores. To reproduce the original look, a refinisher has to fill the pores. But mahogany isnt used all that much by woodworkers today making one-of-a-kind furniture, and […]The post A Few Thoughts appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.

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Convert Veritas Plow Plane to Beading Plane

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Screen Shot 2016-02-26 at 9.11.30 AMSo this is clever (and a nice benefit for customers) Lee Valley announced today a(nother) use for the Veritas Small Plow Plane; a beading blade kit is now available. That’s cool (I do love a nice bead) but what’s perhaps more cool is that while the plane has been slightly redesigned to include this capability (and to improve the clamp mechanism on the depth stop), those who already […]The post Convert Veritas Plow Plane to Beading Plane appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.

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A Few Thoughts

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Filled mahogany grain on the rightI just finished reading an article on filling pores, and it reminded me of several things Ive been meaning to say. First, filling pores is primarily a refinishing operation because so much of the old factory-made and finished furniture is mahogany with filled pores. To reproduce the original look, a refinisher has to fill the pores. But mahogany isnt used all that much by woodworkers today making one-of-a-kind furniture, and […]The post A Few Thoughts appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.

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