Bench Planes: The System of Three
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We rethink the Western bench plane system. All you need to know is that there are three tools, three setups, three jobs and three surfaces. by Christopher Schwarz excerpted from the Winter 2009 issue of Woodworking Magazine Some days I think that every bench plane should come with a decoder ring to help the user understand how to use it. But while a magic ring might seem handy, it wouldn't […]The post Bench Planes: The System of Three appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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The Half-pencil: Your Layout Friend
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Carpenter's pencils have limited uses in a furniture shop, but when I encountered the half-pencil years ago I started hoarding carpenter's pencils to transform them into half-pencils for my friends. The half-pencil, as its name implies, is a carpenter's pencil that has been planed down to half its thickness. (Using a carpenter's pencil makes it easier to plane it down and it gives you more bearing surface in use than […]The post The Half-pencil: Your Layout Friend appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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How Darrell Peart Makes Greene & Greene Ebony Pegs
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In this video, Greene & Greene expert Darrell Peart discusses the square, pillowed ebony pegs often seen on the Greene brothers' furniture designs (most of them were merely decorative, he tells us, though sometimes they were used to cover up screw heads). Then, he shows us how he makes the pegs, start to finish - including the simple jig he uses at the disc sander to rough-pillow the ends quickly. […]The post How Darrell Peart Makes Greene & Greene Ebony Pegs appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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