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Making Frames
Sooner or later, someone will ask you to make a picture frame. Here is how to get it right the first time. by Robert W. Lang Pages 21-23 From the Summer 2009 issue of Woodworking Magazine, issue 14 Buy this issue now Picture frames are one of those woodworking projects that we all assume we Continue reading»
Speed Tenons – Safely
Table Saw Blades & The Laws of Physics If you wanted to make a device to throw pieces of wood at a high rate of speed, how would you design it? You could look at the machines used in sports for throwing things and start with a spinning disc, say 10" in diameter. If you Continue reading»
The 'Impossitails' Zone
Amaze your friends with quadrilateral and rising dovetails.
By Roy Underhill
Pages: 38-39
From the November 2011 issue #193
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An ordinary day in the shop, but suddenly, you’re dovetailing through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. You’re on a journey into a woodworking land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s the signpost up ahead, your next stop … the “Impossitails” Zone!
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Easy Curvaceous Edge Joints
Last winter, I was puzzling out a way to make edge joints that are just the opposite of what we normally want – perfectly straight. I wanted free-flowing curves and I wanted to join contrasting colors of wood species. So the question was how to match the two joint lines on the different pieces of Continue reading»
Slip-fit Corrects a Slip in Planning
I’ve been working, albeit slowly, on a small desk from the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) - I wrote about full-blind dovetails found on the desk in an early post (read it here). The base of the desk holds two drawers set side-by-side. That means there is a drawer runner centered in the Continue reading»
Helical Cutterhead Makes Better Tenons
I’ve told this story to many woodworkers, but I have yet to post it in a blog. One day before Dad passed, he called me to complain that he was having to fit every tenon to it's mortise by hand. (Many woodworkers choose to work that way, but to us it was a detriment in Continue reading»
Hand-cut Dovetails 2.0 with Rob Cosman
If you’re interested in learning to cut dovetails by hand, boy do you have choices. Google hand-cut dovetail videos and the returns total more than 100,000 (no, I didn’t count them). Yesterday I watched Rob Cosman’s second DVD on dovetails, hence the name “Hand-cut Dovetails 2.0.” It’s been 10 years since his first dovetail video. Continue reading»
