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    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:10:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Tools for Woodwork</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[What hand and power tools does the serious beginner need? Here&rsquo;s our best list.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Veritas Rethinks the Dovetail Saw</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The new Veritas dovetail saw is half the price of premium Western saws and has a decidedly modern look. We take the tool for a test drive.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Almost a Plane Wreck</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The perilous flight of the world&rsquo;s most valuable tool.]]></description>
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      <title>Sliding-head Scratch Stock</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Learn to build this tool that travels where no electric router can go. Two fences let you position the cutter and keep the bead’s quirk in line.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Mystery of the Marking Gauge</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Many commercial gauges are missing excellent features found on traditional versions.<br />]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Understanding Western Backsaws</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Westen backsaw has almost vanished. But a few toolmakers are trying to turn back the clock to when this saw was in every toolbox.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A Sawing Contest (And Other Odd Stories)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Editor Christopher Schwarz gets trounced in a handsawing contest, but does OK in the planing competition at a recent hand-tool event sponsored by Lie-Nielsen Toolworks.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Scrapwood Scraper Plane</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Using off-the-rack hardware and scraps, you can build an excellent scraping plane.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>New Tools From IWF 2008</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[From the press room of the Georgia World Congress Center and our hotel's lobby, we bring you the best news about all the new tools featured at the 2008 International Woodworking Festival in Atlanta, Ga.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>VIDEO - Roy Underhill Contemplates The Ax</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[One of the highlights of the Woodworking in America conference in November 2008 was Roy Underhill's keynote address. Underhill, the hero to many hand-tool woodworkers, touched on a lot of subjects. But one of the best parts of the speech was about his own personal history with the ax.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>18th-century Tools for Every Shop</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Often, the old ways of working can be more efficient, especially for large stock or one-off operations.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Ron Brese: From Sheet Metal to Sweet Metal</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Meet planemaker Ron Brese, a diehard furniture builder who has started making infill handplanes using a unique construction method that lowers the lofty cost of these thoroughbred tools.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Blue Spruce Toolworks</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[An engineer turns his understanding of metal and a love of woodworking into a busy tool-making enterprise.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Inheritance</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[My family's approach to passing on heirlooms can only be described as unique.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Understanding Bench Planes</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Bench planes come in a wide range of lengths and widths. Do you need them all? Which ones are most useful? And if you only had to buy one....]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Benjamin Seaton's Saws</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[One man’s career choice in the 18th century drives a 21st-century woodworker into a saw obsession.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Hand Tools for $100</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Beginning woodworkers have it bad when it comes to buying their first hand tools.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Mystery of Holdfasts</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This old method of holding work is one of the best. We tell you which holdfasts work and which don&rsquo;t. But figuring out &lsquo;why&rsquo; is more difficult.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Secret to Handscrapers</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The first time I saw a hand scraper in use I was sure some form of magic was involved.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Sindelar Tool Collection</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[After collecting tens of thousands of tools, cabinetmaker John Sindelar is ready to show them off in a museum.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Handmade Hardware</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[For woodworkers today, using traditional joinery is an expression of skill and nostalgia, a demonstration of the mastery of techniques practiced every day two centuries earlier.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Introduction to Handplanes</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Not many folks will use only hand planes to thickness plane rough stock. It’s my choice and I stick with it because I like it, and therapy sessions to get over it are too expensive. Still, there are a lot of uses for hand tools even in a powered-up shop.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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