Hide Glue - Preparing the Grains or Pearls
Furnished content.
 Most hide glue is sold as a solid in granular or pearl form. To prepare hide glue for use, estimate how much solid glue you can use up in a few days to a week or more (it's myth that you need to throw out the glue at the end of each day), and soak it in water for 20 minutes to a few hours depending on the particle size. […]The post Hide Glue - Preparing the Grains or Pearls appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
Read more here
posted at: 12:00am on 15-Feb-2017
path: /Woodworking | permalink | edit (requires password)
Ingenious Chinese Planing Stop
Furnished content.
 There isn't enough written in English on the woodworking of the Chinese, who have a long and amazing woodworking and technological history. But today I've been gobbling up China at Work by Rudolf P. Hommel (MIT Press, 1937), which focuses on tools used for making other tools (blacksmithing), food, clothing, shelter and transportation. Unlike other contemporary writers, Hommel lived in China for several years, had enormous respect for the culture […]The post Ingenious Chinese Planing Stop appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
Read more here
posted at: 12:00am on 15-Feb-2017
path: /Woodworking | permalink | edit (requires password)
Acclimating Wood
Furnished content.
 Whether you buy your furniture wood from a specialty hardwood lumberyard or from a local sawyer, the chance that the wood is ready to go into a piece of furniture with a minimum risk of shrinking (or, rarely, expanding) unduly is just about nil. Instead, it's more likely (at least in most areas of the United States) that the wood has been sitting in an unheated space and is, at […]The post Acclimating Wood appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
Read more here
posted at: 12:00am on 15-Feb-2017
path: /Woodworking | permalink | edit (requires password)
Promoted by Feed Shark
|
|