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Perfectly Imperfect Furniture

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I've long been fascinated by handmade utility furniture: the kind of stuff made to be used, not admired for the craftsmanship invested in its production. In the early 1980s, I bought an old chest of drawers from an antique shop in Reading, a large industrial town southwest of London, where I lived at the time. It was made of a nondescript softwood known as deal and had originally been painted. […]The post Perfectly Imperfect Furniture appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.

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Turn a Bureau into a Workbench

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Building furniture without a dedicated workshop or even a workbench has always been a challenge. While there are lots of ways to get around the problem, one of my favorites is what is called the bureau-shop. This is where you transform an old chest of drawers into a complete hand-tool shop for light work. The top of the bureau is used as the benchtop (more on that in a minute). […]The post Turn a Bureau into a Workbench appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.

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Holiday Gift Projects! Table-Top Skittles

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Editor's note: With the holidays upon us, we're looking through the magazines and books we own for fun handmade gifts - things that you can build in not too much shop time, but that will help to create a lifetime of memories for the recipients. This is Holiday Project Post number five - for the “Pint-sized Pickup,” click here; for a Craftsman-style Wall Shelf, click here; for “Heirloom Photo Album” […]The post Holiday Gift Projects! Table-Top Skittles appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.

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