The Woodshop Shed 01 12 2017

Live Edge Class at Snow Farm, Massachusetts - Part 5: Lisa's Cherry Table Completed

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A few weeks before our class begun (for past entries about my class read part 1, 2, 3, 4) I emailed my prospective students and suggest to them to look out for free furniture on the side of the road or near the trash bags on garbage eve (the night when trash is put outside.) I said that some nifty nice stuff can be harvested from abandoned or broken furniture, […]The post Live Edge Class at Snow Farm, Massachusetts - Part 5: Lisa's Cherry Table Completed appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.

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Anarchist's 2017 Gift Guide, Day 6: Drawing Bows

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Drawing furniture-scale curves - up to 48 or so - is a challenge to do by yourself. And many times when you use a springy stick and nails, you are so focused on holding things in place that you fail to see if the curve is fair or not. Years ago I bought the Lee Valley symmetrical drawing bow and designing with curves became a heck of a lot easier. […]The post Anarchist's 2017 Gift Guide, Day 6: Drawing Bows appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.

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Video: Making Rabbets With Planes

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Lately I've been incorporating hand tools more and more into the projects I'm working on. I was recently exploring ways to make rabbets for a serving tray I'm working on as a Christmas gift. There are, of course, numerous ways to make them. I was in the mood to make mine by hand. As luck would have it – and because I'm the book editor – I happened to have […]The post Video: Making Rabbets With Planes appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.

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