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How To Glue Miter Joints-Wait a Minute

Robert W. Lang — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:55:43 +0000

Miter joints can be a real source of frustration. The pieces need to be the exact length and the cut surfaces need to be as close to perfect as you can get them. If they don’t look great right off the saw, use a shooting board and a plane, or rub the surfaces on a … Read more »

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New Workbench Build

Glen D. Huey — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:52:25 +0000

In 2006, as I began my first round at Popular Woodworking Magazine (PWM), I was told I had to build a workbench. Even with then editor Christopher Schwarz chest deep in workbench publications, it wasn’t a mandate as much as it was a necessity. In the PWM shop, there was no usable bench empty and … Read more »

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Laminate File: A Woodworking Hand Tool You Didn’t Know You Needed

Robert W. Lang — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:30:32 +0000

Tool snobs beware: This post is about an inexpensive tool that is useful for woodworking and without an ounce of style or charm. In the cabinet industry, plastic laminate files are used for filing the edges of plastic laminate after trimming with a router. In that world, they are a consumable item and are purchased … Read more »

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A Simple Jig for Bottle Dividers or Egg-crate Joints

Glen Huey — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:50:48 +0000

It’s not often you get a chance to use egg-crate joinery in period furniture work. In fact, building the Carolina cellarette in the February 2013 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine is the first time I have used if I remember correctly. When the time came to build bottle dividers for the bottom of the case, … Read more »

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Cut Accurate and Clean Rabbets

Article Index — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:25:38 +0000

By Christopher Schwarz From the Spring 2004 issue of Woodworking Magazine, pages 8-11 When I was taught to cut rabbets in my first woodworking class, we made them with two cuts on the table saw. You’ve probably seen this technique in books and magazines before. For the first cut, the work is flat on the … Read more »

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Check out ShopWoodworking’s August Exclusive…

ShopWoodworking.com — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 18:49:43 +0000

Joinery is one of the most important skills to have as a woodworker, and it's also one of the most talked about, demonstrated and addressed. Now, you can get a complete library of joinery resources - 20 different items for less than $90, in Popular Woodworking's Joinery Made Easy Value Pack. Read more »

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On Symmetry and Screwing Up

Christopher Schwarz — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 01:43:56 +0000

In the world of design, you read a lot about the acceptance or rejection of symmetry. Wait, wait. Don’t go away. This blog entry, by the way, has to do with Audrey Hepburn’s gorgeous face. You can reject symmetry in design based on the fact that human beings are decidedly not symmetrical. A perfectly symmetrical … Read more »

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Installing a Drawer Stretcher

Matthew Teague — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:33:12 +0000

I’ve been working on a cherry and bird’s-eye maple entry table for the October 2012 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine, and as I was installing the upper drawer stretcher I remembered how puzzled I was when faced with cutting my first one. It’s just a single dovetail cut on the end of the stretcher that … Read more »

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Slideshow: Cutting Keyed Miter Joints

Matthew Teague — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:02:13 +0000

Slideshow: Keyed Miter Joints I like the decorative effect that keyed miter joints lend to an otherwise simple box. But they also add a great deal of strength to a notoriously weak joint. Here’s a quick slideshow on cutting and installing keys in miter joints using a very simple jig featured in the August … Read more »

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Hand Tools, Routers, Japanese Joinery and More – New on DVD

Pop Wood Editors — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:56:21 +0000

From mastering hand tools to router basics, 18th-century joinery to Japanese hand tools and joinery, you’ll find it all among the five new DVD selections now available to order at ShopWoodworking.com (and four of them are on “pre-sale” which means you save 20 percent if you order before the DVDs arrive in the warehouse). “Handsaws: … Read more »

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