How to Shape a Mallet Out of a Branch
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 To initiate our fourth graders into woodworking, we offer them a branch and show them how to shape it into a mallet. The branch-mallet is a great project to introduce students of any age to woodworking. It familiarizes them to saws, chisels, gouges, rasps and sandpaper. And, once finished, they can use the tool on their futureprojects or just proudly take it home and place it on the mantel or […]The post How to Shape a Mallet Out of a Branch appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Woe be it to the Double-Wide Workbench
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 Perhaps it's the American love for excess. But no matter how many examples I cite or pleas I make, most beginning woodworkers seek to build workbenches that are entirely too wide. Most historical workbenches are 18 to 22 wide - and they are that wide for functional reasons that I'll explain in a minute. And yet, sawyers I know who cut slabs for benches are regularly asked for 32-wide slabs […]The post Woe be it to the Double-Wide Workbench appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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