Pressed Paper Pulp to Protect Your Work and Tools
Furnished content.
All of our vises at school have cast iron jaws that can damage work and tools. So, I am in the process of lining them with wood inserts to save our rasps and gouges from damage. This also allows our students to have a better grip on the curved and rounded objects that we clamp, mostly mallets and spoon blanks. In order to provide an even better clamping (vising) agent, […]The post Pressed Paper Pulp to Protect Your Work and Tools appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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See-through Furniture?
Furnished content.
Gizmodo posted this morning about a new “transparent wood” that is ready for mass production, developed at Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology. The post notes that it can be veneered into panels strong enough for construction purpose; it’s a nifty thought to replace windows with walls that let in light…but what about for making furniture? While I can see making a bookcase or other display-type piece out of panels […]The post See-through Furniture? appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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