Be Seated: The Benchcrafted Swing-away Seat
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Sitting at your workbench does not make you lazy. Many times it makes you smart. Chopping out the waste between dovetails requires endurance and patience - especially when building a large piece of casework with drawers. If you sit while chopping, you conserve energy and your eyes are closer to your chisel, improving accuracy. The same goes for mortising where exactitude is important. During the last few weeks I've been […]The post Be Seated: The Benchcrafted Swing-away Seat appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Milling Live-Sawn Lumber
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Lumber from large commercial suppliers typically comes with straight-sawn edges. But when you saw your own logs or buy from smaller outfits, you have to find your way along the live edges and around the defects to get the best yield from a board. Or maybe I shouldn't say you “have to”; a happier way of thinking about live-sawn lumber is to realize that it affords creative, structural and aesthetic […]The post Milling Live-Sawn Lumber appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Urban Forestry & a Rash of Alarming Stumps
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Recently in my neighborhood, there has been an alarming outbreak of stumps. The City of Cincinnati has been removing trees that are encroaching on and breaking up the sidewalks, in anticipation of the replacement and repair of said walkways- a cost that is the responsibility of homeowners…which has caused some anger. Iunderstand why we need passable walkways (I also understand the disgruntlement at having to pay for them, particularly with […]The post Urban Forestry & a Rash of Alarming Stumps appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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