On Seeking Perfection
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 Who hasn’t found themselves fussing over a project running a plane over it just one more time or fretting over whether or not it needs another sanding? As with anything in life, the quest for perfection is an illusive one. In this excerpt from “Build 25 Beautiful Boxes,” master box-maker Doug Stowe shares a few thoughts about the idea of perfection and what it means in his own woodworking […]The post On Seeking Perfection appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Design Brief No. 1: The Danish Campaign Chest
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 While there are a dozen good ways to design a piece of furniture, I can write intelligently only about my own methods. I designed my first piece of furniture in 1993 and have surprisingly stuck with the same basic technique for the last 23 years. It doesnt involve formulas or ratios (though I believe those also work). Instead it relies on what I was trained to do as […]The post Design Brief No. 1: The Danish Campaign Chest appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Woodwork by the Book
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 Below is my “Out on a Limb” (the editor’s note) from the April 2016 issue, because I’ve had a couple folks ask me on social media recently what books I recommend. If I could apply in the shop the superabundance of knowledge Ive gleaned through books, Id be an excellent craftsperson. My job involves reading about woodworking, as does my freelance editing work. Then for fun, I open a book. […]The post ‘Woodwork by the Book’ appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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