Our cover story for the February 2012 issue of Popular Woodworking is Serpentine Chest, by Glen D. Huey, contributing editor. Expand your casework repertoire by learning how to make a curvaceous front – it looks a lot trickier than it really is.
In Handle With Care, Gary Rogowski shows how to design, make and install custom handles for your doors and drawers – pulls perfectly suited to your project.
In A Frame With Architectural Interest, Mark Arnold shows how “crossetted” corners add a bold visual statement – and arresting grain pattern – to a picture or mirror frame.
Charles Bender demonstrates how an exercise in dowel-making without a lathe is an excellent way to improve your handplaning techniques in Just Plane Round.
In Mirrors in Multiples, Robert W. Lang, executive editor, shows how designing the process for making multiples of a project can be as challenging as designing the object itself.
In Return of the Passer Drill, Roy Underhill revives this venerable tool, which was used in times past to pattern rout for brass insets, with a modern replica.
In this issue’s Tool Test, we take a look at Festool ZOBO Forstner-style bits, Veritas’s 6″ precision square, Blockkz’s Clamping Blocks and Earlex’s steam generator.
In Design Matters, George R. Walker shows how sketching is all in your mind.
In Arts & Mysteries, Adam Cherubini shows how London’s clever carpenters found a way around the laws regarding “boarded” furniture.
This issue’s I Can Do That project is a message center designed and built by Steve Shanesy, senior editor.
In Great Woodshops, Christopher Schwarz, contributing editor, shows how Jeff Miller, a former musician, brings an improvisational skill to the craft of custom woodworking.
In Flexner on Finishing, Bob Flexner shows how “green” solvents are environmentally friendly and surprisingly effective.
In End Grain, Eric Heydorn paddles through his woodworking past.
By Robert W. Lang
Page: 14
From the February 2012 issue #195
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I keep a 6″ precision rule in my pocket most of the time when I’m in the shop. It gets used on a regular basis for layout, setup and fussy measuring. Veritas has introduced a small square than does
everything the rule does, but the addition of the leg makes it do everything better and more easily than a standard rule.
BLOG: Practice your layout with the Gottshall Block.
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By Steve Shanesy
Page: 17
From the February 2012 issue #195
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You probably know Earlex as the British company that a few years back introduced North American woodworkers to an inexpensive but capable HVLP sprayer. Now the company has introduced an inexpensive electric steam generator that makes it ever-so-easy to add steam-bending wood to your arsenal of techniques.
BLOG: Another way to bend wood. Read more
Edited by Kari Hultman
Pages: 12-13
From the February 2012 issue #195.
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Three main design features enable it to work well. The runners are made of hard maple that resists wear and tear. The sliding mechanism is a dovetail that allows the roller to move closer to the table for short pieces and farther from the table for longer boards. The roller can be made level with the top of the table saw because of an elongated hole for the bolt that connects the roller assembly to the extension assembly.
VIDEO: We film videos of many Tricks of the Trade in use in our shop, and post them online,
free. Visit popularwoodworking.com/video to watch.
WEB SITE: Visit the new Tricks of the Trade page online.
BLOG: Tricks editor Kari Hultman writes about woodworking on her blog, The Village Carpenter.
IN OUR STORE: “601 Woodshop Tips & Tricks,” by Graham McCulloch. Read more
