The Art of Making Dovetailed Drawers
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 Fine furniture calls for an elegant drawer. A master cabinetmaker shares his approach to design and fitting. by Mario Rodriguez pages 50-54 Issue #174 There are just a few things my partner at Philadelphia Furniture Workshops, Alan Turner, and I don't see eye-to-eye on. But how to make a good drawer isn't one of them. When building furniture, we probably spend as much time making the drawers as we do […]The post The Art of Making Dovetailed Drawers appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Book Giveaway: I Can Do That! Weekend Woodworking Projects
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 Do you have a copy of “I Can Do That! Woodworking Projects?”It's a great book for beginning woodworkers, but also for anyone looking for quick weekend woodworking projects. We recently updated it for a 3rd edition, adding 10 new projects- so now's a great time to check it out if you haven't already. While accessible to newcomers, the projects in this book use solid basic techniques and yield some quality […]The post Book Giveaway: I Can Do That! Weekend Woodworking Projects appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Video: Inside a Mortise with Frank Klausz
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 Woodworking is largely an exercise in subtraction. For much of what we do that subtraction is obvious - we can see the kerf left from a saw, we can watch the shavings fall out of our handplane and we brush shavings away from the work surface when we sand or scrape. In these instances, we can quickly assesshow the process is going. Is my blade dull? Is my blade canted […]The post Video: Inside a Mortise with Frank Klausz appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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CNC Skills: Origin Points - Part Three: New Techniques
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 In part twoofthis series, several techniques and tools were shown for accurately setting origin points. You can use line-of-sight, feel, extrapolation from a known diameter, edge finders, wigglers, 3D sensors and more. Accuracy is critical and although all these tools and processes work well, setting origins can be time-consuming. So, in my own shop, I often use other methods and tools to locate and set my origin points. As a […]The post CNC Skills: Origin Points - Part Three: New Techniques appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Meet David Lyell - Online Content Director
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 Growing up I thought everyone had a Bridgeport in their garage - or at least had access to a vertical mill at their dad's shop across town. Little did I know at the time that growing up in a machine shop wasn't necessarily normal. My father instilled in me at a young age a belief that there's nothing that can't be fixed - even if you threw away the […]The post Meet David Lyell - Online Content Director appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Sand-Shaded Parquetry Door
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 My very talented friend, Jack Mauch, just completed a great looking door made of many segments of veneer quilted together to create a clever geometric pattern (aka parquetry). Each of the segments received a dip in a bath of fire hot sand to shade it accordingly. The project is marvelous and the video that depicts it, by Jesse Beecher, is a treat to watch. To learn more about the project […]The post Sand-Shaded Parquetry Door appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Planing Away Low Spots in Panels
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 One of the most frustrating parts of using a smooth plane is when you have a low spot on your board that simply refuses to be planed out. There are several strategies. Here are just a few: Just keep planing as usual until you are an old man or woman. Drop down to a coarser plane (such as the jointer). But this could introduce tear-out. Increase the depth of cut. […]The post Planing Away Low Spots in Panels appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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ShortCuts Blogger Graham McCulloch Retires
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 This morning a colleague told me that Graham McCulloch, authorof the ShortCuts blog is retiring from the online column after 22 years. Graham has been a voice in the woodworking community for more than70 years. He has contributed articles to numerous publications including Canadian Woodworking magazine and Family Handyman magazine and has authored numerous woodworking books, including a couple of titlesforPopular Woodworking: “The Woodworker's Illustrated Encyclopedia” and “601 Woodshop Tips […]The post ShortCuts Blogger Graham McCulloch Retires appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Contemporary Medicine Cabinet
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 by Megan Fitzpatrick pages 26-31 From the June 2016 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine A slick technique makes the divided-light door a snap. In 2008, I built a contemporary maple chimney cupboard to hold towels in my bathroom. Eight years on, I decided it was time for a matching medicine cabinet - in large part because the house I recently bought has solid masonry walls, so I needed a nice-looking […]The post Contemporary Medicine Cabinet appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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CNC Skills: Origin Points Part Two: Finding and setting the Zero Point
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 In the first post in this CNC Skills series on Origin Points, I emphasized how critical reference positions are for digital woodworkers. When you're working on a drawing in CAD, the origin point is at the intersection of the X, Y and Z axis. All measurements positive or negative, begin at that point. By the numbers, that's X=0,Y=0,and Z=0. It's from that position that the piece you're cutting is […]The post CNC Skills: Origin Points Part Two: Finding and setting the Zero Point appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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In Praise of Knots, the Defect that is Watching You
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 When I went to the lumberyard to buy the stock for my first project of my own design I picked through the store's entire stack of 1x12s to find the boards with the most attractive constellation of knots. I wasn't trying to be cheeky or make a statement (other than I like knots). I genuinely liked knots because they reminded me that the board was once a tree - not […]The post In Praise of Knots, the Defect that is Watching You appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Book Giveaway: With Saw, Plane & Chisel
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 I was looking through some of our recent books for this week's book giveaway and realized I had an extra copy of Zach Dillinger's “With Saw, Plane & Chisel” on my desk. It's a fascinating look at period-accurate building techniques. If you love classic Americanfurniture and areinterested in how things were made back in the day, this book is worth a read. Zach creates museum quality reproductions the old fashioned […]The post Book Giveaway: With Saw, Plane & Chisel appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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A Visit to a Furniture Restoration Shop in Tel Aviv: Part 2
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 As I mentioned in the first part of the story, Shay likes to frequent the Jaffa flea markets to look for all kinds of goodies. In fact, many of the tools that he uses come from boxes of miscellaneous items that he has seenthere. He buys the tools for little money and later finds the time to rehabilitate them. After fishing the tool from a merchant'sbox or picking it from […]The post A Visit to a Furniture Restoration Shop in Tel Aviv: Part 2 appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Video: How to Reduce Planer Snipe
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 Nearly every time that I approach the planer, I think to myself, how am I going to get rid ofsnipe this time? Without fail, I end up with snipe at the leading or trailing edge at some point in the process to avarying degree. It has been rumored that some have totally mitigated the issue - but it is a relief to hear Doug Daleat Marc Adams School of Woodworking […]The post Video: How to Reduce Planer Snipe appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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They heard us: Valspar Will Spin Off Wood Coatings Division in Sherwin-Williams Merger
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 On May 22 last year (2016) I complained about consolidation in the wood finishing industry, which is eliminating competition. The latest was Sherwin-Williams buying Valspar, a move that would effectively remove Valspar as a company independent of the interests of Sherwin-Williams. Many of you agreed with my complaint. The next day I reported that the Federal Trade Commission was looking into this. I guess they heard us because the latest […]The post They heard us: Valspar Will Spin Off Wood Coatings Division in Sherwin-Williams Merger appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Video: How to Reduce Planer Snipe
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Nearly every time that I approach the planer, I think to myself, how am I going to get rid ofsnipe this time? Without fail, I end up with snipe at the leading or trailing edge at some point in the process to avarying degree. It has been rumored that some have totally mitigated the issue - but it is a relief to hear Doug Daleat Marc Adams School of Woodworking […]The post Video: How to Reduce Planer Snipe appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Mushroom Your Drawbore Gaps
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 It's a shame customers don't know as much about woodworking as woodworkers. They run their hands over your work and if it's smooth they think it's good - whereas you know that's just the temporary wax on top. It shows the customer nothing about the weeks you spent oiling it daily or the high number of light coats of shellac used to create a deep and repairable finish. Customerscan also […]The post Mushroom Your Drawbore Gaps appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Big Panels? Don't Tarry
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 Gluing up narrow boards into big panels stresses out many beginning woodworkers. Sorry to say it, but I have another stressor to put on your shoulders: Don't tarry. Schnell. Andele. Large panels are like manicured lawns. Right after you mow and trim your yard, it looks like a golf course or a military haircut. But within minutes or hours, the blades of grass and weeds begin to move and grow, […]The post Big Panels? Don't Tarry appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Mushroom Your Drawbore Gaps
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It's a shame customers don't know as much about woodworking as woodworkers. They run their hands over your work and if it's smooth they think it's good - whereas you know that's just the temporary wax on top. It shows the customer nothing about the weeks you spent oiling it daily or the high number of light coats of shellac used to create a deep and repairable finish. Customerscan also […]The post Mushroom Your Drawbore Gaps appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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How to Remove Crayon and Candle Wax
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 Want to be a hero with friends and relatives? Here are two tricks that are surprisingly little known but are worth a lot to your reputation: how to remove crayon and candle wax. Crayons are made of wax, of course, and wax dissolves in turpentine, mineral spirits (paint thinner) and naphtha. None of these solvents damages any finish (except, of course, a wax finish) when used in moderation. So to […]The post How to Remove Crayon and Candle Wax appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Creativity Step by Step: Furniture Design
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 Design has always been one of my biggest challenges in woodworking. To be frank, I didn't know how to create my own designs. I'm always amazed by the innovative designs of other woodworkers, but aside from copying, creating my own seemed beyond my capacity. How woudl I begin to create a vision? Where would I get ideas? And how might I create something that is coherent, makes sense, has style? […]The post Creativity Step by Step: Furniture Design appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Book Giveaway: The Practical Workshop
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 Shop set up is always a popular topic of discussion among woodworkers. We have a book coming out in few weeks that covers exactly that.“The Practical Workshop” is a compilation of some of Popular Woodworking Magazine's best articles on setting up a sensible shop with an efficient workflow. Whether you have a fully equipped shop or you make do with a tiny corner of the basement or garage, this book […]The post Book Giveaway: The Practical Workshop appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Video: Traditional Danish Soap Finish
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 In this video excerpt from “No-Fear Chairmaking, Christopher Schwarz shows you how to use soap flakes (or grated soap) and water to make two varieties of traditional Danish soap finish. This finish is fast and easy to make, there are no VOCs about which to worry, and it is quite easy to apply. Plus, you'll walk away with cleaner hands than when you started… If you're interested in the building […]The post Video: Traditional Danish Soap Finish appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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A Visit to a Furniture Restoration Shop in Tel Aviv: Part 1
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 Shay Avrahami opened his Furniture restoration shop in Tel Aviv in the early '90s, and since then he has steadily established his reputation as one of the best furniture restorers in Israel. His experience stems from many years of apprenticeshipin Israel, and a few years of mentorshipin Scotland.I visited him two weeks ago to talk and take pictures of his shop and work. His shop isin a small space in […]The post A Visit to a Furniture Restoration Shop in Tel Aviv: Part 1 appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Want to Feel Twice as Strong? Get Blaster
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 I work alone, so when I need to move a 70 lb. chunk of rough lumber over my jointer, I've got to be tricky if I don't want to be sore the next day. For me, the best trick has been to squirt some Blaster Dry Lube on the bed and fence after a few passes. In fact, this Teflon-based lubricant is really the only thing that makes it possible […]The post Want to Feel Twice as Strong? Get Blaster appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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'Chisel Use: An Easy Guide'
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 by Jim Stuard from the February 2001 issue Chisel Use: An easy guide to whether you should be pushing,paring or pounding your chisels, in any given situation. Back when I started as an apprentice cabinetmaker, a chisel was something to be beaten with a large hammer. That was before I learned how to properly sharpen and use these tools. Since then it's become apparent there are three distinct chisel operations […]The post 'Chisel Use: An Easy Guide' appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Another Benefit of a Curved Plane Iron
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 I sharpen a curve on the cutting edge of all my bench planes and block planes. The curve prevents the corners of the iron from leaving behind plane tracks - those ugly little steps. But there are many other benefits to using a curved iron. Here's one more: It can make your mortise-and-tenon joinery tighter. This might sound improbable, but it's something I achieve with every mortise-and-tenon joint in my […]The post Another Benefit of a Curved Plane Iron appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Don't Close Your Eyes to the Square
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 When people injure themselves in the shop, their first reaction is to grab the wound and refuse to look. Sadly, this is the same attitude many woodworkers take with the squareness of their components: They refuse to look and hope things will work out. While there are lots of areas of woodworking where squareness doesn't matter (stick chairs, for one), if you are going to build rectilinear boxes and hope […]The post Don't Close Your Eyes to the Square appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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The French Cleat: A Great Way to Hang Cabinets or Shelving
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 You may already know about the French cleat, but if you haven't heard of it, this neattrickisa great simple way to hang cabinets, wall racks or shelving. In this excerpt below, Popular Woodworking'svery own David Thiel explains how he used this simple yet effective method of wall-mountingto hang a wine rack - a project that is featured in the new book “Simple & Stylish Woodworking: 20 Projects for Your Home.” […]The post The French Cleat: A Great Way to Hang Cabinets or Shelving appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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PWM June 2017 Issue 'Extras' - Handsaw Basics
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 The June 2017 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine, which features Caleb James' homage to Hans Wegner on the cover, is in the mail right now to print subscribers, and the notice for digital subscribers went out earlier today. (It's also now available at ShopWoodworking.com.) The Online Extras are live at popularwoodworking.com/jun17. The issue will be on newsstands in a couple weeks as well, and once it's there, if you mosey […]The post PWM June 2017 Issue 'Extras' - Handsaw Basics appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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CNC Skills: Part One - The Origin Point
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 CNC Skills: Part One: All about Origin Points The Origin Point is your prime reference position No matter what kind of woodworking you do, reference points and accurate measurements are critically important for woodworkers. This is particularly true when using any kind of woodworking machinery. For example, if you're using a table saw to rip a board to 4 wide, set your fence to 4. To set up that fence […]The post CNC Skills: Part One - The Origin Point appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Why There Are Streaks in Your Wood Stain
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 I've run into this problem often enough that I thought it worth discussion: People apply a stain and don'thave enough time to get the excess wiped off before the stain dries. The results arestreaks that are difficult to remove. It used to be that all stains carried by home centers and paint stores were oil stains - that is, stains that thin and clean up with mineral spirits. They were […]The post Why There Are Streaks in Your Wood Stain appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Box Made with 'Log Cabin Dovetails'
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 I was hanging out at the Lost Art Press open house last weekend, and Dayton-area woodworking and tool collector Eric Brown brought down a crazy box to show Christopher Schwarz and me. It's made with the same sort of dovetails you may have seen on the Single Brothers' Workshop at Old Salem, or other Germanic timber structures. These dovetails, constructed solely of tails, weren't meant for small-scale work…but there's a […]The post Box Made with 'Log Cabin Dovetails' appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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'Making Things Work: Tales from a Cabinetmaker's Life'
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 I am delighted to announce that we now offer Nancy Hiller's hilarious, earthy - and cautionary - look at life as a custom furniture maker - “Making Things Work: Tales from a Cabinetmaker's Life.” If you're thinking about chucking it all, assuming “all” means a steady job with employer-sponsored health insurance and a regular paycheck, to hang out your lovingly hand-crafted shingle as a furniture maker, you should absolutely read […]The post 'Making Things Work: Tales from a Cabinetmaker's Life' appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Book Giveaway: Handplane Essentials Revised & Expanded
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 If you're serious about woodworking, you know that you'll likelycontinue to refine your craft until you wind up in an exquisitely detailed coffin you built yourself - there's a lifetime's worth of learning in this avocation. New tools land on the market. New techniques change the way you approach your work. You learn new tricksby talking to other woodworkers. And that's exactly the reason“Handplane Essentials, Revised & Expanded”by Christopher Schwarz […]The post Book Giveaway: Handplane Essentials Revised & Expanded appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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CNCs vs Pattern Shaping
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 If you build furniture out of wood, you'll find that once your design becomes more thana collection of straight lines and begins to include curves, shapes and other details - you enterthe world of pattern shaping. What is patternshaping? It is a woodworking process for accurate duplication.Instead of creating repeated parts from scratch, an existing pattern of the part is used to produce an exact copy.Shapinga part involves machining it […]The post CNCs vs Pattern Shaping appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Video Shop Tour: Garry Knox Bennett
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 Look for the new “Woodworking Legends: Garry Knox Bennett” video in mid-May (it will be available at ShopWoodworking.com). On it, fellow furniture making giant Alf Sharp chats with Garry about his life, his work, his woodworking philosophy and more. On this excerpt (rated PG-13 for language), Alf and Garry take a walk through Garry's shop to take a look at his impressive collection of “old arn” - including a 30″ […]The post Video Shop Tour: Garry Knox Bennett appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Tongue and Groove Joinery
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 There are many ways to cut this popular edge-to-edge joint. by Bill Hylton from the April 2005 issue A tongue-and-groove joint is an edge joint with a mechanical interlock. The edge of one board has a groove. A matching tongue is formed on the edge of the mating board. The tongue goes into the groove, and the boards are joined. You probably are most familiar with the joint's many applications […]The post Tongue and Groove Joinery appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Teaching Is Its Own Satisfaction
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 I've been helping out a friend with a college project (in case it wasn't obvious, it's a wall-hung wine and liquor cabinet with a detachable serving tray) and while it's mostly been a favor, it's also been a privilege that has shown me that teaching is its own satisfaction. While helping my friend was a chance to do a little teaching, it really wasn't the intentionI just couldn't help myself. […]The post Teaching Is Its Own Satisfaction appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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A Voice You Can Trust - or 100
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 My biggest arguments while at Popular Woodworking Magazine weren't about hand tools vs. power tools, Shaker vs. Arts & Crafts, Grizzly Industrial vs. everyone else. Instead we fought about a question you might not think about: Isn't so-and-so woodworker full of crap? When you get experienced woodworkers around a table and throw them an article from someone new, the reaction is: This dingus doesn't know how to cut a dado. […]The post A Voice You Can Trust - or 100 appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Small Rubber Mallet - a Cheap Indispensable Tool
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 In Stanley Kubriks “2001: A Space Odyssey,” the opening scene of our primate ancestors contends that the earliest tool was the mallet. It was made from a femur, but a mallet all the same. Woodworkers have since refined that original design. Mallets are our most-used tool because woodworkers hit more things in an afternoon than a mobster does in a lifetime. As such, most woodworkers have a small collection of […]The post Small Rubber Mallet - a Cheap Indispensable Tool appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Traditional Paint and Glue Store in Israel
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 While inTel Aviv last week, I paid a visit to a few of my favorite places -trade stores and friends' shops that I used to frequent while living in Israel. One of these places was Sahar Finishes store. The owner, Mosha Srebrnik, is the grandson of the man who founded the businessalmost a hundred years ago. The small corner store looks as if it has hardly changed since then, except […]The post Traditional Paint and Glue Store in Israel appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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3-legged Stool Design: Sixth Time is a Charm
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 To move forward with my design for a three-legged stool, I had to look back to my past work. Though the above stool might look a lot like the other designs I've shown here, it is significantly different (or really similar if you're familiar with my past designs). Here are some of the major design changes and the history behind them. Yellow pine. I have a long history with yellow […]The post 3-legged Stool Design: Sixth Time is a Charm appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Sears & Craftsman tools
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 You may know that Sears is in big trouble; the brand may not survive. It's closing stores fairly rapidly and in January sold the iconic Craftsman tool brand to Stanley Black & Decker. I have some history with Craftsman tools and some thoughts about what has happened, so I thought I'd share them. Back in the 1960s, I restored an old house in Washington, D.C., while I was serving in […]The post Sears & Craftsman tools appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Show Off Your Best Work - It Could Win You $1,000
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 Dig out the best pictures of your work - or get started now on a new piece - and enter the fifth annual PWM Excellence Awards for a chance at the $1,000 grand prize. Submissions are accepted accepted in five categories from now through June 16 - click on the logo at left (or above, if you're on mobile) to enter (or see the link below) There's no fee to […]The post Show Off Your Best Work - It Could Win You $1,000 appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Name the Actual PWM Article
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 …without looking it upThe post Name the Actual PWM Article… appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Teaching Woodworking Can Educate the Instructor
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 I was in the shop last night helping a friend with a project for a college design course. The course required her to carry a furniture piece through the construction phasebut seems they didn't do a lot of teaching on that part and my friend has no woodworking background. I was happy to help (and do a bit of teaching along the way), though as we progressed it was me […]The post Teaching Woodworking Can Educate the Instructor appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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