http://www.popularwoodworking.com Woodworking advice, woodworking plans, woodworking projects and woodworking blogs Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:46:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.popularwoodworking.com/tools/look-ma-no-clamps http://www.popularwoodworking.com/tools/look-ma-no-clamps#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 06:11:28 +0000 Matthew Teague http://www.popularwoodworking.com/?p=134271
A friend of mine used to claim that his favorite tool was his own spit. I'd never claim such a thing publicly, but I do admit to using some rather unorthodox tools at times: I've sharpened paint-can keys to scrape off glue squeeze-out, and ground threaded rod into various shapes for stamping wood. In this Continue reading»]]> http://www.popularwoodworking.com/tools/look-ma-no-clamps/feed 1 http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/i-saw-it-she-saw-it-we-all-saw-it http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/i-saw-it-she-saw-it-we-all-saw-it#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:21:39 +0000 Christopher Schwarz http://www.popularwoodworking.com/?p=134431
As instructors at woodworking classes, we spend most of our time sampling bon-bons and braiding each others hair while the students work away the last bits of their cartilage between their poor, overtaxed joints. Today was not so fun for the instructors. While the students merrily dovetailed away their carcasses at The Woodwright’s School, the Continue reading»]]> http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/i-saw-it-she-saw-it-we-all-saw-it/feed 5 http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/build-a-tool-chest-at-the-woodwrights-school http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/build-a-tool-chest-at-the-woodwrights-school#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:31:18 +0000 Christopher Schwarz http://www.popularwoodworking.com/?p=134061 Continue reading»]]> http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/build-a-tool-chest-at-the-woodwrights-school/feed 9 http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/editors-blog/road-trip http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/editors-blog/road-trip#comments Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:34:48 +0000 Megan Fitzpatrick http://www.popularwoodworking.com/?p=133861
Tomorrow morning, I'm hopping in my car and driving south, where the view off the back deck of where I feel honored to be staying looks like this (though I suspect it will be slightly less verdant – though no less sylvan – at the moment):                   Continue reading»]]> http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/editors-blog/road-trip/feed 5 http://www.popularwoodworking.com/article/tapered-sliding-dovetails http://www.popularwoodworking.com/article/tapered-sliding-dovetails#comments Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:30:23 +0000 Matthew Teague http://www.popularwoodworking.com/?p=133701
For the  James Krenov-style hanging cabinet I built out of cherry for the April 2012 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine I used tapered sliding dovetails to join the case. For a step-by-step slideshow of how to use a router to cut these joints, click on the video player below: – Matthew Teague  ]]> http://www.popularwoodworking.com/article/tapered-sliding-dovetails/feed 6 http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/a-pause-in-the-hostilities http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/a-pause-in-the-hostilities#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:03:17 +0000 Christopher Schwarz http://www.popularwoodworking.com/?p=133661
I finished yesterday fitting the three bottom drawers to the Campaign Secretary I’m building and I started in on building the gallery – it’s all dovetailed now. I’d be quite happy with my progress if I weren’t about to get into a car. For the next 10 days I’ll be on the road, taping a Continue reading»]]> http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/a-pause-in-the-hostilities/feed 10 http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/workbenches/straight-from-the-frenchmans-mouth http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/workbenches/straight-from-the-frenchmans-mouth#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:15:28 +0000 Christopher Schwarz http://www.popularwoodworking.com/?p=133541
Can we not agree that I am not of sound mind and body? Yup? OK, read on. Last year I commissioned blacksmith Peter Ross to make a holdfast for me that was made as close as possible to Andre Roubo’s instructions. Ross is quite familiar with Roubo, but I sent him a translation of the Continue reading»]]> http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/workbenches/straight-from-the-frenchmans-mouth/feed 17 http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/editors-blog/greene-greenes-thorsen-house http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/editors-blog/greene-greenes-thorsen-house#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:18:27 +0000 Robert W. Lang http://www.popularwoodworking.com/?p=133231
When you think of the work of Greene & Greene, you usually think of Pasadena, Calif. Pasadena is home to the Gamble, Blacker and Robinson houses, and there is a fantastic collection of the Greene's furniture at the Huntington Museum a few miles away. But one of the "ultimate bungalows," the Thorsen house, is a Continue reading»]]> http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/editors-blog/greene-greenes-thorsen-house/feed 4 http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/good-wood-species-for-tool-chests http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/good-wood-species-for-tool-chests#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:58:02 +0000 Christopher Schwarz http://www.popularwoodworking.com/?p=133181
I’ve seen a lot of vintage tool chests in my travels, and most of them have been made of pine. What kind of pine? Hard to say. Most pines look the same when they are covered in paint, dirt, grease and what looks like monkey dung. But pine is not the only wood appropriate for Continue reading»]]> http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/good-wood-species-for-tool-chests/feed 17 http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/arts-mysteries-blogs/secret-to-planing-end-grain http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/arts-mysteries-blogs/secret-to-planing-end-grain#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:39:37 +0000 Adam Cherubini http://www.popularwoodworking.com/?p=128811
Is there a secret to planing end grain? Is a low-angle block plane required? I don't think so. My trusty wooden smoother does a good enough job for me. What you need to plane end grain is a SHARP plane. If that's your block plane, use that. If I had to come up with a Continue reading»]]> http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/arts-mysteries-blogs/secret-to-planing-end-grain/feed 9