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Push Drills: Good Design, Timeless and Forgotten

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Woodworkers drill holes. We drill lots of holes. Small ones especially. And we spend lots of money on methods of drilling holes. In the modern era, we've progressed from eggbeater drills through the tailed revolution and are now obsessed with compact and powerful battery-juiced motors. Yet these designs pale in comparison to ones perfected in the 1800s and mass produced up until a half century ago. Imagine a drilling tool […]The post Push Drills: Good Design, Timeless and Forgotten appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.

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Gluing Dowel Joints: Why Factory Furniture Dowel Joints Loose so Quickly

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Why does so much factory furniture, made with dowel joinery in the last forty or fifty years, often not hold up well? I have two explanations, both of which are shown in these pictures of chair arms. The first is that the dowels aren't coated well with glue. The way gluing on a production line so often works is that a little glue is dropped into the dowel hole as […]The post Gluing Dowel Joints: Why Factory Furniture Dowel Joints Loose so Quickly appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.

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PWM Baseball Caps - Limited Edition

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My PWM baseball cap has already seen heavy use - it's my go-to hair-containment method while working in the shop and on my house (and given the state of my home and large number of projects to go, I'd best get another cap or three…). We have a limited number of these caps available through ShopWoodworking.com ($12). They're 100-percent cotton, slate blue (my favorite color…so yes, I picked it) and […]The post PWM Baseball Caps - Limited Edition appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.

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